He deals mostly in broken-down skates that he sells to pedlers 'n' cabmen.
For he put on his reefer, pulled his sealskin cap over his ears, hung his skates on his arm, and with his hands buried in his pockets went down the field to take a short cut and get the start of the team.
He took off his skates and climbed the shore, and went trudging and whistling along.
In less than no time Will had his skates on, and was out careering over the crystal glare, doing his fancy tricks, and speeding away from reach to reach among the islands with which the great lake was sprinkled.
Try as he might to find the track of his skates he could not see any, either for the dim light, or for the snow that had fallen and was covering the lake more and more.
However, there would be no trouble about skating back; and Will went flying campward against the wind, when the screw of one of his skates snapped and sent him tumbling headlong, rolling over and over.
His skates that he had dropped the time he had sat down and had come near falling asleep?
Then the dinner-bell rang, and the skates had to come off.
When the lessons were over we used to jump into a carriage with our skates and were driven to Charlotten-Hof, a small palace in the park of Sans Souci, where was a large sheet of water now converted into the most beautiful black ice.
Ruth only wished that she had brought herskates when she ran so hastily from Snow Camp.
Ruth wished that she had brought her skates instead of the gun with her.
With theirskates rattling over their shoulders, the trio started back across the field.
She caught up her skates in the back hall and burst out upon the back porch, which was partly enclosed.
Hatfield heard the ring of her skates within a very few moments; he threw a glance over his shoulder, saw her, and then began to run.
The men were so deep in the woods that she could not hear a sound from them; nor was the ring of skates on the pond apparent to her ear.
The strokes of the skates upon the ice were still visible.
She started down the pond toward the stream, seeing the scratches of the boys' skates leading in that direction.
She quickly clamped the skates upon her shoes, and within five minutes was darting off across the ice.
But Mr. Cameron put on skates and proved himself master of them, too.
He beckoned to Mr. Weller and said in a stern voice: Take the skates off.
Chambers carried Tom's skates to the river and strapped them on him, then trotted around after him on the ice, so as to be on hand when he wanted; but he wasn't ever asked to try the skates himself.
When I saw you on "a January morning," With a very little pair of skates indeed, And the frosty glow your fairy face adorning, I was suddenly from other passions freed.
But that was in Germany, and he had his skates with him.
When they hurried through the lounge with their skates and skis, Klasen would say: "See how they overdo things.
There is hardly a greater difference between these old bone skates and the "acmes" and club skates of to-day, than there is between the skating of the Middle Ages and the artistic and graceful movements of good performers of to-day.
Specimens of these old bone skatesare occasionally dug up in fenny parts of Great Britain.
Thialfe answered that in running upon skates he would dispute the prize with any of the countries.
The skates are clamped on them in the same manner as on a shoe.
The device for holding the skates consists of a board on which four blocks, AA and BB, are nailed.
Three skates are fastened on to either side of the cross-board and one to the rear end of the center-board, the latter of which is to operate as a rudder.
In attaching the skates first make a couple of runner blocks, each 6 in.
After the roundness is cut down on the edges of the blades the skates are removed and the file is drawn along the sides to remove the [Illustration: Filing a Curved Surface] burr.
The skates may be strapped on or taken off whenever desired.
Sharpening Skates with a File [306 Two methods are shown in the sketches for filing skates-one for hollow filing and the other for filing flat [Illustration: Filing a Flat Surface] and straight across the blade.
Home-Made Roller Skates [386] The rubber-tired wheels of an old carpet sweeper can be used to advantage in making a pair of roller skates.
Illustration: Plan of Ice Boat] These skates must be exactly parallel or there will be trouble the first time the craft is used.
Skates filed in this way have flat surfaces with sharp edges.
Often a score or more of these "tip-ups" are planted about the edges of the ice pond, each boy bringing his fishing tackle with his skates and thus finding a double source of amusement.
Have a blacksmith bore holes through the top of the skates and screw one of them to each of the pieces of hardwood.
The player opening the game skates to the line and delivers, in bowling form, a sliding block similar to the blocks that are placed on the lines with the exception that it has a handle.
The sun climbed arrogantly up to his place above all other things, and as Hagadorn took off his skates and glanced carelessly lakeward, he beheld a great wind-rift in the ice, and the waves showing blue and hungry between white fields.
The ice was as glass, his skates were keen, his frame fit, and his venture to his taste!
In several of my skating excursions I have observed, and noted it to others, that ice of just sufficient strength to bear any one in skates standing upon it, will instantly break if tried by the same person without having skates on.
Here at Hampstead, they say the ice is inches thick upon the ponds--I can hear the whir of the skates from my windows, and everyone who passes is dressed like a grizzly bear.
But the Squire's skates were not to be won by him, for on the following day as he and his cousins were on their way to the pond, they came across the queer old woman whom they had met on the previous day.
The air began to sing by Hetty's temples; her skates kept a humming tune with her lover's.
He was lurching away with a guffaw; for the tow-path here ran within two furlongs of the high road, and a man upon skates cannot pursue across terra firma.
All of you have skates that fit and shoes to skate in?
Our skates did fit and our shoes were suitable, so we were on the ice in no time.
One of the most irritating things under Heaven is to go skating with persons whose skates don't fit or whose heels are too high or soles too thin.
To have skated over it would have so dulled his keen-edged skates that anything like victory would have been impossible.
Most of the Indians--for their skates were poor--have fallen in the rear.
They had all sorts of skates and all kinds of styles.
The dogs were kept busy, and the skates and snowshoes were not forgotten.
He had all confidence in the splendid skates on his feet, and saw with delight that he was emerging from the last place where the trees entirely hid the bright moonlight.
Their explanations were that their skates seemed to glide more in unison with each other, and in fact that there was a sort of affinity between them.
Before Prudy's lameness, Susy had used her new skates a great deal, and could now skim over the ice quite gracefully, for a little girl of her age.
She found it was not only pony and skates she must give up, but even her precious reading, for Prudy was jealous of books, and did not like to have Susy touch them.
Susy's skates were hung up in a green baize bag, to dream away the summer.
It played in turn upon the great leather Bible, upon Gretel's closet-bed, the household things upon their pegs, and the beautiful silver skates and the flowers upon the table.
One and all wore skates except, indeed, a muffled-up farmer whose queer cart bumped along on the margin of the canal.
Hans was delighted with his new skates and, in his eagerness to show Gretel how perfectly they "worked," did many things upon the ice that caused the little maid to clasp her hands in solemn admiration.
Hundreds of beautiful skates were gleaming and vanishing in the air above him.
The Silver Skates Dame Brinker earned a scant support for her family by raising vegetables, spinning, and knitting.
Decide between you which stands the best chance of winning the race, and buy the skates accordingly.
Shall I hurry home, he was thinking, to tell the good news, or shall I get the waffles and the new skates first?
I must send my new skates back to the beautiful lady.
Then you really are going to sell your new skatesif you can find a customer?
Soon his skates were on, and he was skimming rapidly toward the residence of Mynheer van Holp.
Peter van Holp to Carl Schummel, "but that little one in the red jacket and patched petticoat skates well.
Meantime the silver skates flash in the sunshine, throwing dashes of light upon those two happy faces.
The general problem of the art of skating is taken up from the standpoint of the man or woman who puts on skates for the first time.
Advice is included on the proper skates and clothing.
Get your skates on, sonny, and I’ll show you what you don’t know about skating.
Billings swept up majestically, and Trevor, who had been trying his skates in short circles, joined him.
Four minutes later the same proceeding was repeated, and after two ineffectual tries the puck slid through between the goal-tend’s skates just where he apparently didn’t expect it to go.
Despite this, however, a fair-sized audience had assembled on the ice near the landing, where a rink had been marked out, and were either circling about on skates or tramping to and fro to keep warm.
News of the proposed race had spread, and those who had started toward their rooms had returned, while the two hockey teams, having taken off their skates and donned their heavy clothing, also joined the throng.
The distant ring of fast-moving skates broke the stillness.
You're the only girl in the bunch who skates as though she loved it.
Your initials are hard to do," said Holton, backing into line beside her and indicating the letters his skates had traced on the surface.
There came a flash from Uncle John's pocket; the next minute the skateswere on Joe's knees.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "skates" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
