He visited the United States in 1867, sailing for New York on the Great Eastern, and his book, A Floating City, was the result of this voyage.

"There is something floating upon the sea.

Never was a fairy's palace more lovely than this floating refuge which Nature had provided for them.

Politicians and statesmen, being the last people in the world to notice what is going on in it, are making no attempt whatever to re-adapt this hugely growing floating population of delocalised people to the public service.

Here, then, is a curious prospect, the prospect of a new kind of people, a floating population going about the world, uprooted, delocalised, and even, it may be, denationalised, with wide interests and wide views, developing no doubt, customs and habits of its own, a morality of its own, a philosophy of its own, and yet from the point of view of current politics and legislation unorganised and ineffective.

They reached the cottage-gate that led to the blacksmith's humble abode, and a smell of rank tobacco, floating forth, announced the fact that he was smoking his pipe in the porch.

She asked no more, and presently the jaunty notes of a banjo floating up the grassy slope told them that Green's entertainment had begun.

Who, indeed, can affirm that he would wish the floating figure of Eve, or the three angels at Abraham's tent-door, other than they are? See the Commentaries of Ghiberti, printed in vol.

Descending from the sky and floating through the arches are three of the Apostles, while one who has just alighted from his aërial transit kneels and folds his hands in adoration.

It was wonderfully mild considering the temperaturethis sounds paradoxical, but the sensation of cold does not conform to the thermometerit is obviously dependent on the wind and less obviously on the humidity of the air and the ice crystals floating in it.

Celestino Rey was beguiled from his Pleiad throne, and helped to a seat in this floating Elba.

The boat headed in for one end of the dam and her passengers soon found themselves floating in a granite room, with huge wooden doors closed behind them.

In Commerce Dock are to be seen, floating, specimens of every ancient and modern naval construction, French and foreign, among which are the state convette Favorite and an English three-master converted into a cafe boat.

Yet at this moment the Great Eastern is lying in her old berth in the Sloyne at Liverpool, and unless something else at present quite unforeseen takes place, she will once more play the undignified part of a floating music hall.

" Quite different, but better because more difficult, is this essay in Proverbial Philosophy: "I heard the wild notes of the lark floating far over the blue sky, And my foolish heart went after him, and, lo!

From the sandy bottom was struggling forth a convex shield that, when floating, showed its lower face smooth and yellow.

The apparatus of the diver could go down but a few meters; their only instrument of exploration was the metal diving-bell, less important than a spider-web thread that might try to explore the earth by floating across its atmosphere.

A corvette of the French navy once encountered near the Canary Isles a complete specimen of one of these monsters floating upon the sea, sick or wounded.

"I used to dance naked, with a transparent veil tied around my hips and another floating from my head ...

I have always wanted to see your floating home.

Were his family and neighbors to be terrified, on awakening, by this floating cemetery washed to their doors during the night!...

" Suddenly he seemed to hear strange triumphal sounds floating in the air above his head.

The sounds died away, and the form of the old man, wrapped in a dressing-gown, with exposed chest and wildly floating hair, appeared at the window.

Gondolas with liveried gondoliers, and filled with fair women, are floating on the still lake, now rich with shadow-pictures of wood and sky and rocky shore.

"There he goes!" "Where?" "He has dived again!" "Looklook yonderbetween the floating bath and the bank!"