Rose Parade sights

Usage examples of floats.

The three hunters returned eventually, awkwardly paddling their own floats while pulling the one in which M.

They climbed into the skiff and began trying to pull the floats aboard.

The razor-wire shape floats past him, four arms limp, the red eyes fading.

The ship, looking more than ever like a silver dirigible drifting with the soft breezes, floats over the river and railyards of northwest Da Vinci.

His body floats above the open creche, his flailing hands can get no grip.

The crowd is on the balcony again, eyes wide, as the giant ship floats to within three meters -- gray cliffs on either side of us now -- and extrudes a plank from the balcony.

Like Mark Antony, for days and days along his green-turfed, flowery Nile, he indolently floats, openly toying with his red-cheeked Cleopatra, ripening his apricot thigh upon the sunny deck.

Slowly it floats more and more away, the water round it torn and splashed by the insatiate sharks, and the air above vexed with rapacious flights of screaming fowls, whose beaks are like so many insulting poniards in the whale.

Beneath the unclouded and mild azure sky, upon the fair face of the pleasant sea, wafted by the joyous breezes, that great mass of death floats on and on, till lost in infinite perspectives.

Usually the dead Sperm Whale floats with great buoyancy, with its side or belly considerably elevated above the surface.

Let us seal and leave the floats, and in the morning we will journey to kill them.

The floats are all supposed to represent Mother Goose stories, you know.

CHAPTER V THERE were twenty-one floats in the Comus parade instead of the advertised twenty, but comparatively few of the spectators checked that difference.

So far, maskers on the other floats had repelled these trouble-makers with fistfuls of thrown trinkets, but the Humpty Dumpty guardians were better equipped.

When a corpse floats a little distance from a low shore, it rarely happens that the tide does not throw it up, sooner or later.