Unresisting but unassisting, Fastrada clung to his supporting arm while he bore her around the skating-course at a speed no otherskater born in Frank Land might have hoped to equal.
Not even Liutrad was so big and strong as the skaterwho drove along at the far end of their line, his massive shoulder braced against the wind.
The first period ended with Melville leading, one to nothing, and Rand Downey, whose contempt for the fancy skater exceeded that of his team mates, had certain things to say to Frederick in the locker room.
You're just a fancy skater but your figure eights don't do you any good in a game.
It would be different, Fred, if you weren't such a goodskater .
The champion fancy skater dug the point of his skate into the ice.
Finishing with a flourish, the skater bowed mockingly in the direction of his opponents as he pointed to the lines he had etched into the scarred ice.
True, she was as swift and skilful a skater as either, but that of itself was not likely to save her.
Reaching the edge of the ice from which the second cake was swiftly receding, the skater made an amazing and desperate leap across the open water.
The nearest skater heard the cry and swerved suddenly in Grant’s direction.
Skater after skater was left behind, often by a hair's-breadth margin of safety which evoked half-heard protests as they skimmed on.
The next moment the boys on the island left their places and came scrambling back across the ice, and then a skater came into view around the up-river end of the island and headed for the finish.
As soon as the skater has gained confidence and can skate in the ordinary way, he should begin to master the art of skating upon the outside edge.
Of course, it had been flooded on the preceding night, after the last skater had left, and this caused a splendid surface to congeal.
Belleville captain; and Hugh glanced apprehensively around; then broke through the dense crowd, and seized upon a skater who had been hovering near.
A trained skater can go very long distances with very little fatigue but one must carefully measure his speed to the distance to be travelled.
While considerable skill is necessary to handle a skate sail well, any one who is a good skater will soon acquire it.
A fancy skatercan practise from diagrams and directions just as one might practise moves in a game of chess.
By referring to the above table the skater can easily determine just what strokes are necessary to produce the figure properly.
It seemed as though the famous skater who had written the chapter headed First Principles of Skating, and Suggestions to Beginners, had been so overpowered by the magnitude of his task that he had given up in despair before he had begun.
Although not so speedy a skater as Greene, he was a more perfect hurdler, and he was looked upon as the winner.
I had my skates, and the mere was large enough to hold me as well as the others--indeed, I saw in the distance great tracts of virgin ice to which no skater seemed yet to have reached.
The skilled roller skater moves by swaying the body rather than by pushing with the foot and leg.
The moment striking out begins, all ease and grace vanish, and theskater presents the appearance of a windmill in active motion as to arms, and is, to say the least, ungainly as to the rest of the person.
She was a goodskater and her red sweater showed off her figure to great advantage.
He was a strong skater and soon we found ourselves doing stunts with him that we had not dreamed possible.
The fires on the bank seemed to flit by him as he followed that solitary girl-skater around the glittering icy reaches of the mill-pond.
Your father," she said to him, "was the best skater in the valley, and you ort to be.
Now supposing the cake to be cut into ten cakes of one square foot each, placed together in a line so that the skater could glide over the entire ten feet in length in one second.
Supposing, for example, the skater were to stand upon a cake of ice a foot square for a single second; he would sink, let us say, to his waist in the water.
On the other hand, he knew that she, with her strong but lithe little frame, needed but a week's practice on good runners, to make her a better skater than Rychie Korbes or even Katrinka Flack.
At his age I might have ventured to compete with as expert a skater as he.
The most skilfulskater is at the head; each catches the coat of the one before him--the weakest in the middle.
But when we return from this cruise I will go with Wulf the Skater into the winter of long night and we will find them there.
All the hours since Wulf the Skater brought the news of the coming thaw had been spent by Ulric and his men in getting the good ship The Sword ready for the water.
Then the night passed and in the early dawn Ulric, the son of Brander, sat apart by himself sharpening the long, beautiful sword on the stone which Wulf the Skaterhad brought to him from the North Cape, at the end of the world.
He slept after a while to the slow rocking of the ship, and when morn came Wulf the Skater stood by him.
Ulric stood fast for a moment, but forward with Sigurd went Wulf the Skater full of war wrath.
The white ones are the Druids," said Wulf the Skater to his companions.
The darts fly in showers," said Ulric, but Wulf theSkater urged him.
Even Wulf the Skater is willing to take off his mail and his helmet.
The mist was fast disappearing, nevertheless, and those who were watching were seeing further; but now a great cry arose from the stern, where Wulf the Skater was taking his turn at the helm.
It was not a hard fight, as if these fellows had been Danes or Northmen, but I cleft many skulls and I think Wulf the Skater killed a score of them.
Olaf," he said, after a silence, "Wulf the Skater hath returned from looking at thy place.
Wulf the Skater took up the crutches, but the jarl put them away, saying: "Hath he not bidden us to go our way?
