The "housewives" tag is further demonstrated by his popularity among the "not working/other" group, of which 28 per cent find their boat floated by the former ER star, compared to just 14 per cent of students.

Soon the very foundations would begin to shake My small boat floated in a shallow pond and the pig wandered on the shore, calling to me ceaselessly, casting his offal in my direction with his hooves, a filthy offering, deeply sincere.

"There is a percentage of our citizenry," said State Senator Alma Wheeler, Democrat of Ann Arbor, Mich., "that is not having its boat floated by this economy."

Helicopters hovered overhead, antiaircraft guns sat menacingly on the lawns and police boats floated in the small lake that surrounds the Parliament building, ready to repel any attack.

In Grafton, the water was so high that Mr. Gore had to duck as his boat floated under power lines.

There, a boat floated on the still water, lashed to a little post behind the boathouse.

A much larger boat, a barge covered with canopies and lit by dozens of hanging lanterns, floated before him now, tied to a vast dock along the bank.

The canal made use of the Kiskiminetas River using a system of slackwater dams, and the boats floated on the river, entering a lock located at the mouth of Roaring Run.

On the following day trees of remarkable stature appeared along the shore, raising a variety of silhouettes against the smoke-brown sky, and by noon the boat floated with jungle to either side.

The water was so high that the two men had to duck as the boat floated under utility wires.