So Harald put on his skees and started for a wood that was back from shore.
Illustration: "He drove it into the wolf's neck"] Then without thinking of his torn arm he put on his skees and went leaping home.
He threw off hisskees and thrust his hands and feet into holes of the rock and drew himself up.
In a breath he was seated on the snow while his skees finished the coast without him, at the bottom dashing noisily against a stone.
Then Brand shut the door upon the counter-chaff, and the three began to burrow for their skees in the pile beside the house.
We will leave our skees on the ice and creep close to the bank and listen; the tongue they speak, and their voices, will tell us something.
With a sudden freak of perverseness, Brand decided that doffing his skees was unnecessary, and edged his way up sidewise, the six-foot runners threatening more than once to trip his neighbor.
Dropping his weapons, he turned to run, but lapped his skees and fell headlong.
After much floundering they got their skees on again and continued their journey, this time at a more deliberate pace.
The boys were stretched out, heads almost buried in the snow, feet kicking wildly, and the long skees beating the air like flails.
I felt that I might be able to crawl the half-mile, so I started, with the skeeson my back.
I beat some nails out of the box, and then placed the board lengthways on top of the skees and nailed it firmly.
I practised with the skees till there was no danger of turning my ankle again, and would sometimes run races with him on them; but he could beat me all hollow unless there was a good, stiff load on the sled.
I sat up and drew the skees to me on the floor, and placed them parallel and about ten inches apart.
Her mocking invitation spurred him to make the effort, so he removed the skees and waded a short distance up the hill.
When he managed to maintain an upright position despite the antics of his skees her face expressed genuine disappointment.
With her skees slung over her shoulder, the girl strode along beside Phillips, talking freely on various topics, but with no disposition to chatter.
By one o'clock the crust had thawed so that the skees broke through, and before two o'clock the web-shoes were breaking through.
So I kept an eye on the girl, an' when I seen her caching skees an' grub, I was on.
He waited for them, and said they would make no progress in this way, and told them to stand upon the edge of his skeesbeside him.
They are so skilful that they can hunt out traces either upon the frozen or the thawed earth, like dogs; and they can run so swiftly on skees that neither man nor beast can come near them in speed.
Eystein: "I am not strong at the bow as you are, but there is less difference between our shooting near; and I can use the skees much better than you, and in former times that was held a great accomplishment.
He was graceful as an Indian when he swept, on skees he had made himself, across miles of snow covering the lake and dazzling in the diffused light of an even gray sky.
He forgot all about Gertie as he cached hisskees by the shore and prowled through the woods, leaping on brush-piles and shooting quickly when a rabbit ran out.
He called two other Lapps, and we put on our skees and started, and soon after we were out of sight of the house.
I walked with my skees slowly, looking off into the distance!
Never raise your feet or skees above the ground; make them glide on the snow; push one foot forward, then the other, just as when you walk.
This at first I thought to be the top of birch trees above the snow, as before; but I was not quite sure, and as I walked along on my skees I kept a sharp lookout.
Paulus," said he, "people must look out carefully not to run into boulders as they go down hill, and a hill full of boulders only those who can guide their skeeswell can venture to go down.
They shouted as they left: "We will show the wolves if we meet and chase them on our skees what our bludgeons can do.
These staves," he added, "are very useful when the snow is soft and the skees do not glide easily.
We had better have our skees handy, so that we can throw them out of our sleighs and then jump out ourselves.
While in the air they maintained their skees parallel, as if they had been on the snow, and when they alighted the skeeswere on a perfect level with each other; no man seemed to be more than two or three feet ahead of another.
It was fortunate that we were on skees instead of in sleighs, for the reindeer would have become unmanageable in their fright and would certainly have been attacked by the wolves.
The Lapps went on theirskees after my reindeer, which in the mean time had stopped, and brought it back to me.
The Lapp in an instant was on hisskees armed with his bludgeon.
In a moment their skees were refastened, and the pair descended the Falberg by the steep slopes which join the mountain to the valleys of the Sieg.
Seraphitus unfastened the skees from Minna's feet, kneeling before her.
I had left my skees at the foot of the promontory, and had climbed up by fingers and toes over the rocks without great difficulty.
I whirled to escape, pointed my skees down the slope,--and went.
Friction almost ceases to be a factor with skees on a snowy steep, and in less than a hundred yards I was going like the wind.
To see him shoot down a hillside at lightning speed, his skees as firmly parallel as though they were of one piece, his graceful body bending, balancing, steering, was to see the next best thing to flying.
When he drew out a pair of skees and proceeded to put them on, Sigurd burst forth with increased vehemence.
They had retained their staffs when they left their skees upon the bank; but even feeling their way step by step was by no means secure.
The matter shall be as you have fixed it, Grettir," Sigurd said politely, "if you are able to run on skees with us.
Stooping into the recess, he drew out an-other pair of skees and began to fasten them on.
The smooth white expanse suggested a wish that he had brought the skees he was learning to use; then the sight of the line of boulders he would have had to steer around made him rejoice that he had not.
Alwin slipped out of his skees and made sure of his knife.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "skees" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
