What is "coasted"

Usage examples of "coasted".

As they coasted up the sluiceway, he thought on just what he should say to Qiwi Lin Lisolet.

They coasted through a long, straight corridor to a vehicular airlock.

She coasted over to Pham Trinli’s maps, preempting whatever more Trinli had to say.

The taxi coasted over towers of eerie beauty, a fey castle spiring up from the crystal plane.

For they were watched, as they coasted along out of the gulf, by Phormio, who wished to attack in the open sea.

Phormio also coasted along to Molycrian Rhium, and anchored outside it with twenty ships, the same as he had fought with before.

As the ships coasted along shore they ravaged the seaboard of Laconia.

Nicias with his sixty ships coasted alongshore and ravaged the Locrian seaboard, and so returned home.

The whole force making land at the Iapygian promontory and Tarentum, with more or less good fortune, coasted along the shores of Italy, the cities shutting their markets and gates against them, and according them nothing but water and liberty to anchor, and Tarentum and Locri not even that, until they arrived at Rhegium, the extreme point of Italy.

Immediately upon his return the generals manned and victualled sixty ships out of the whole fleet and coasted along to Naxos, leaving the rest of the armament behind them at Rhegium with one of their number.

Received by the Naxians, they then coasted on to Catana, and being refused admittance by the inhabitants, there being a Syracusan party in the town, went on to the river Terias.

Here they persuaded their allies the Metapontines to send with them three hundred darters and two galleys, and with this reinforcement coasted on to Thurii, where they found the party hostile to Athens recently expelled by a revolution, and accordingly remained there to muster and review the whole army, to see if any had been left behind, and to prevail upon the Thurians resolutely to join them in their expedition, and in the circumstances in which they found themselves to conclude a defensive and offensive alliance with the Athenians.

Not long after his departure Diomedon arrived with ten Athenian ships, and, having made a convention by which the Teians admitted him as they had the enemy, coasted along to Erae, and, failing in an attempt upon the town, sailed back again.

As he coasted along he landed at the Meropid Cos and sacked the city, which was unfortified and had been lately laid in ruins by an earthquake, by far the greatest in living memory, and, as the inhabitants had fled to the mountains, overran the country and made booty of all it contained, letting go, however, the free men.

But learning that he was at Chios, and expecting that he would stay there, he posted scouts in Lesbos and on the continent opposite to prevent the fleet moving without his knowing it, and himself coasted along to Methymna, and gave orders to prepare meal and other necessaries, in order to attack them from Lesbos in the event of their remaining for any length of time at Chios.