There he stood, immovable, until, feeling sure that nothing but the prospect of something to eat could have made them hurrah so heartily, he turned and skated slowly toward his excited comrades.
Hand in hand, theyskated together, laughingly at first, then staidly talking in a low tone.
Holland is as wonderful to-day as it was when, more than twenty years ago, Hans and Gretel skated on the frozen Y.
Carl said something about being "glad that they had sense enough to stop and rest,"--and the four boys skated on in silence to overtake their companions.
Peter did not tell Hans that he had skated all the way to Haarlem for the purpose of arranging this plan with Mynheer van Holp.
If you really wish to see Haarlem," said Lambert to Ben, after they had skated a while in silence, "you should visit it in summer.
Carl angrily, before the party had skated twenty yards from the city gates, "if here isn't that wooden-skate ragamuffin in the patched leather breeches.
And as Annie skated homeward filled with pleasant thoughts, she did not hear Hans say, "I grumbled like a bear--but bless her!
I'd like to catch you at it," and, by way of proving his words, the sneezer skated off at the top of his speed.
They had skated nearly seventeen miles since morning, and were still as fresh as young eagles.
Perhaps some memory of Gretel's assailants crossed her mind as she skated rapidly toward Amsterdam, for her eyes sparkled ominously and she more than once gave her pretty head a defiant toss.
They had skated but a few moments when Carl Schummel said mockingly to Hilda: "There's a pretty pair just coming upon the ice!
Farther out it was better, and as they skated up and down together Frank decided that they would have their game even if they did get pretty wet before it was over.
He skatedover to a clear spot on the ice and was swinging along to get up speed when a sudden panicky cry from up the lake made him stop and whirl around with a grind of steel runners that threw up a shower of icy particles.
This very night Rockwell and I skated for the third time, Ah, but it was glorious on the lake, the moon high above us in a cloudless sky, the snow and ice on the mountain sides glistening and the spruces black.
Still in that short daylight I painted and Rockwell skated and painted, and we both cut a lot of wood.
We skated together hand in hand like sweethearts; going far to one end of the lake in the teeth of the wind and returning before it like full-rigged ships.
Aunt Sallie gave the sled and Trouble over in charge of the girls, and they skated up and down pulling William to and fro, to his great delight.
Once Jan and Lola skated so fast, pretending they were a team of horses pulling Trouble on his sled, that Jan stumbled and fell down, also tripping Lola.
Ted needed no urging, but skated as fast as he could toward shore, whither the others were fleeing as fast as they could strike out on their skates.
The ice also remained through January and February that winter; but after December had ended Athalie skated no more.
The ice thickened; and she skated with Clive on Spring Pond.
I learnt to keep my balance, not on ice, but with roller skates on asphalte, and this was sufficient to enable me to go forward with a certain amount of ease when I first skated on ice.
The left foot is thus put down and the stroke taken in the ordinary way or from the cross, another circle of outside edge being skated on the left foot.
This will bring the skater to the inner circle again when the movement can be repeated, and the whole figure can be skated backwards.
The figure can also be skated backward, in which case the position for starting will be with the backs instead of the faces of the skaters towards each other.
Rogers told us to put on our skates, and we skated up the river to Fort Edward.
We camped in the woods, and after it was dark skated down the lake.
When, hereafter, Gerald, you may chance to think of that bread and cheese at Ely, always remember that you had skated from Cambridge.
Last winter a lot of us skated to Ely, and we ate two or three loaves of bread and a whole cheese at a pot-house!
And Richard's thoughts went back for a minute to the face of the girl he had skated with.
The last time I skated was two years ago on the Neva at St. Petersburg.
Richard skatedaway with Miss Drummond, a wholesomely gay and attractive girl who could skate as well as she could talk and laugh.
Richard's heart leaped exultantly as he skated around the river bend in the moonlight with Roberta.
When they saw Kit and Kat, they laughed and skated to them, picked them up, and set them on their feet.
Father and Mother Vedder came along then; and when Kit and Kat were rested, they all skated for a long time without saying anything.
After a while there was a great stamping of feet at the door; and Vrouw Vedder ran with the broom to brush the snow off Grandfather and Grandmother, who had skated all the way from town, on the canal.
She kept her eyes on the windmill, and she skated as hard as she could.
See, this is the way," said Vrouw Vedder; and she skated around in a circle.
For ten minutes after that the corporal and the girl skated in an electrical silence, looking everywhere except at each other.
They maintained a casual air, skated in circles and figures for a few minutes and then went home.
At two o'clock he accompanied her to the river and skated with her.
As she skated very well, better than any of the other girls, she felt, sweeping about the pond in long, swift curves, that she was repaid for her ignorance of billiards.
She and Judith and Lawrence skated a great deal, and Sylvia learned at last to cut the grapevine pattern on the ice.
After crossing the island he again got on to unbroken ice and skated across it, to the shore near the lower bridge.
At this juncture many people undoubtedly lost their heads as they skated right into the broken ice and almost all of them at once disappeared.
But as he skated alone he swam alone, appearing and disappearing at the swimming-place silently, with never a salutation to any one.
Etta and De Chauxville skatedpast them at that moment, laughing gayly.
They stood side by side, both thinking of her, both looking at her, as she skated with De Chauxville.
He turned with a fierce jerk, and almost skated into Maggie.
Everybody in that land big enough skated, and skated well.
To have skatedover it would have so dulled his keen-edged skates that anything like victory would have been impossible.
Ruffled and angry at being so easily matched by Alec, the clerk abruptly turned around and skated back.
The correct one had been flagged several days before, but the previous evening the clerk had skated over and had flagged the wrong channel.
It was well-known to Alec, for it was along this very way that he had skated so rapidly after leaving the river, with the howling wolves behind him.
The two or three in the rear savagely tried to block his way and sprang at him, but signally failed to reach him, as Alec skillfully skated round them and sped onward toward the lake.
Few of the girls skated toward the railroad bridge; but most of them to the school bounds in the other direction.
Another full lap would have been more than she could have skated without a breakdown.
Miss Etching was usually with the girls in the afternoon, while one of the instructors from the Academy skated with the boys.
Miss Etching skated slowly forward to eye the line of struggling girls.
Nancy skated more swiftly than she had in that first dash of the evening.
Nancy skatedas well as any boy, while she was naturally--being a girl--more graceful in her motions.
He never skated with her again, although she saw him with Grace Montgomery and her friends.
But her friend picked herself up at once, and with a laugh skated on after the other contestants.
She skated past Judy Craig, and saw that that eager sophomore was sobbing for breath, and could hardly stand.
Then he made a wild dash after the youth who had tripped him up, but Phil had skated on ahead and he took good care that Shadow did not catch him.
To be sure, as soon as they saw us, they skated away as fast as they could, and kept their faces hidden.
He skated off by himself and then threw himself in Nat's way, and was gone the best part of half an hour.
Three times the boys gave the cry, and by that time they had skated far up the river and out of sight of the window at which the teacher was standing.
No, theyskated away behind an island and that's the last we saw of them," answered Mallory.
Till to-morrow night then," and lifting his cap, he skated back, leaving Lydia in a state of mind difficult to define.
Lydia often brought her skates to class with her and if the wind were favorable skated home after her last recitation.
And I ran all the way to the lake and I skatedlike the wind, and I never told Lizzie a word, though I nearly busted!
They went to a number of dances and skated together frequently in spite of the fact that Kent was very busy with his real estate work.
As she skated she chanted, to improvised tunes, bits of verse.
She did not tell Lizzie of her errand and that faithful soul was too glad to see her eat her dinner to think to ask her why she had skated so long.
They skated well, as did most of the children of the community.
He skated with her to the bank, where she sat on a log.
Then Alice, leaving her bitter words echoing on the wintry air, which carried them clearly to poor Amy, skated off.
She heard something more about her mystery to-day, Daddy, and she nearly skated into an airhole--she was so upset.
She skatedon out of the crowd, toward a part of the frozen river where there were no merry-makers.
Blindly she skated on, not heeding, and scarcely caring where she went.
Will watched her, shook his head once or twice, as though puzzled, and then skated back toward his sister and the others.
She could not see, and she skated rapidly on, only wanting to get away.
Dropping Laura's arm without a word, Dick skated swiftly up to Dave, called Darrin, then lightning.
Prescott answered, as they turned and skated slowly back toward the center of the cove, "when we go into anything we consider it as good as won from the outset.
Five minutes later, when all the congratulations were over, he skated up beside Laura Bentley.
All we need is the band," laughed Dick Prescott, as he skated slowly along with Laura Bentley.
And so Daddy Blake and the children skated down to the end of the lake, Roly-Poly running along with them.
Hal, as he skatedalong with Charlie, while Mab glided slowly at the side of Mary.
Come, we will go over and see how it is done," and away they all skated to where the men were gathering the harvest of ice, just as farmers gather in their harvest of hay and grain.
Daddy Blake skated over to Hal, but there was no need of his help.
Telling Hal and Mab to stay together, in a spot where he knew the ice was thick, Mr. Blake skated slowly toward the place where poor Roly-Poly had gone under.
After which they skated "partners," holding hands tightly, and were a likely pair of children, no doubt.
That was one winter's night when with another boy he had skated until nearly midnight.
He skated two hundred yards nearer, and then tried.
When he skated another hundred yards closer he could just see the light with his face on the ice as he had done the skates by day.
Mark tried the same experiment with the same result, and they then skated slowly homewards, for as it was not moonlight they might get a fall by coming against a piece of twig half-sunk in and frozen firmly.
At Bertie's persuasion Anne had brought skates, and she went down with him to the lake in the afternoon, where they skated together till sunset.
She went by way of the stream along which she and Nap had once skatedhand in hand in the moonlight, and as she went she stooped now and then to gather the flowers that grew in the grass beside her path.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "skated" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
