Just in the middle the boys had swept a path on the ice to make a glissade.

As the élan vital that has made and characterized any period declines, it throws off reactions, the object of which is if possible to arrest, or at least delay, the fatal glissade.

The first part of the way down to the saddle we attempted a glissade.

No glissade was possible, nor plunge such as travellers make down through the ash-heaps of Vesuvius; but, having once worried through the wretched little spruces, mean counterfeits of trees, we could fling ourselves down from mossy step to step, measuring off the distance by successive leaps of a second each, and alighting, sound after each, on moss yielding as a cushion.

He glissaded from, the austere altitudes of his self-respect, and his next words were already disingenuous.

Mrs. Noah, tucking up the curious straight garment that is a memory of our childhood, went ahead with feminine curiosity; Noah, bare-legged, slithering along in the rear and beseeching the ladies to note the slipperiness of the alluvial deposit, and for goodness' sake not to make a glissade down the side of Ararat.

And, to show his agility, he rose, and, with the help of his stick, made a glissade on the floor.

Bring right foot forward by glissade, at the same time rising left foot.

Slide your right foot to right, bring left foot up close behind it, as in the fifth position; make a glissade with your right foot, ending with your left in front.

Glissade to right with right foot, ending with left in front.

Glissade to right, with your right foot; end with same foot in front.

Then do the step of the Cellarius to the right, beginning with the right foot; fall on left foot, keeping it behind right foot; glissade with right foot, and end with same in front.

Fall on right foot, keeping it behind; glissade with left foot, bringing it behind.

The step contains two movements, a glissade and a chassez, following each other quickly in the same direction.

Glissade to the left with left foot.

Fall on the left foot, and make two glissades with the right (1st bar).

Nevertheless there must always be certain technical terms, such as chassez croisez, glissade, &c., &c., for which it would be difficult to find good English equivalents.

Glissade, a sliding step.