Being buoyed up by the water

Usage examples of floating.

In another hour I had the se acock installed, the line freed from the keel and the boat floating upright in her shady berth.

Out in the amphitheater, the afanc finished chasing down the stray bits of bodies left floating in the water.

I told Alake to keep an eye on the floating human, took Devon to deck two, the topmost part of the waterlock.

For the Amar, floating ghosts were the most horrible of monsters, creatures unkillable that sucked the souls from the bodies of helpless, hapless warriors foolish enough to venture within the mists.

Above eighty gun-boats and bomb-ketches were to second the operations of the floating batteries, together with a multitude of frigates and smaller vessels, while the combined fleets of France and Spain amounting to fifty sail of the line, were to cover and support the attack.

And in the afternoon we went for a row on the river, pulling easily up the anabranch and floating down with the stream under the shade of the river timber--instead of going to sleep and waking up helpless and soaked in perspiration, to find the women with headaches, as many do on Christmas Day in Australia.

The powerful motor lifted the craft high out of the water, and Aragon leaned forward, watching the surface for any floating logs.

His gaze traveled from the filmy pink scarf draping her throat and floating behind her to the deep pink bandeau covering her breasts and finally to the volumnious extravagance of the matching harem pajamas.

The only light now came from the bioluminescence of microscopic creatures floating in the heavy air.

The floating effect came from the hands that dragged him back into the bus, along with Baybrock, Bleer and the senseless drivers.

Floating up in the bright blue sky where the sun ought to have been was a flying policeman looking happily down on the crayon house.

I was almost lulled into sleep by the red-and-white plastic bobbers floating on the murky green surface of the lake.

Many floating bombardons which were not designed for such conditions broke from their moorings and crashed into other breakwaters and the anchored shipping.

Captain Isbell had been up all night working out new attack techniques to smother U-boats that tried to fight it out, and to such good purpose that U-664 was bombed helpless and the crew abandoned ship, leaving 44 floating survivors for Boric to pick up.

Maia and Brod ducked again, having caught sight of an expanse of floating bits and flinders, logs and loosely tethered boxes, along with one drifting, grotesquely ruined body.