As the city slid majestically westward, it passed small stationary platforms leading to underground transfer bunkers, baked ballardian space-plane runways, and crater-rim refuges.

Almost anticlimactic, Jim thought, as the Southern Cross slid majestically into the darker northern waters bound for her last port of call.

He majestically slid them across the table, where they were snatched up by hardened lawyers too terrified to breathe.

From gate to summit the little greystone enclosure fissured and split, and its two halves slid majestically apart.

In a matter of ticks, great optical hawsers flashed to the battleship from four waiting deep-space tugs, final network of mooring beams extinguished, and the great starship began to shrug aside the long gray rollers as she slid majestically toward open ocean-and space.