The birch skiff spun round, rocked crazily for a second or two, and keeled over, spilling both its occupants into the black and silver water of the pond.
The birch-bark skiffskimmed onward as if borne on unseen pinions.
A moisture oozed from his skin, and gathered in heavy drips under the brim of his hat, as he began to wonder whether the light bark skiff was working through the water at all, or skimming in some unnatural way above it.
Out in the deeper lagoons I hooked huge fish that swam off ponderously, dragging the skiff until my line parted.
They would pole theskiff alongshore and keep a sharp lookout for what he called bonefish mud.
At Seabright we used to launch a Seabright skiff in the gray gloom of early morning and shoot the surf, and return shoreward in the afternoon to ride a great swell clear till it broke on the sand.
Then we got in the skiff and rowed toward the flats.
Next day, about the last of the ebb-tide, we tied a skiff astern and went up the Key to a cove where there were wide flats.
When he returned the skiff had disappeared; but the shape was warming its moccassined feet in a very human sort of way.
I shall take you in sight of the Beavers, and then put you into the skiff and leave you to row over alone.
A sail-boat lay in a cove, with a little skiff in tow.
This boat sails well,' said Waring, 'and that is your skiffbehind I see.
So the little blanket-man paddled away in his skiff with his share of the wedding-feast beside him; the two dogs went with him, and became Mormons.
A boat was coming after them, a little skiff they both knew, and in it paddling, in her white dress, sat Silver, her fur mantle at her feet where it had fallen unnoticed.
Again, the watery skiff was sent off, and in a few minutes they were permitted, thanks to their passes, to come off.
My skiff was rigged in a moment; and out of the blankets, those in the long-boat managed to make a sail, an oar and a long pole tied together answering for a mast.
Tom Sawyer was in the skiff that bore Judge Thatcher.
I'll float the skiff down there, and I'll pull it back again all by myself.
He untied the skiff at the stern, slipped into it, and was soon rowing cautiously upstream.
A trifle after noon the boys borrowed a small skiff from a citizen who was absent, and got under way at once.
An ordinary dog, with luck, can fill a skiff with water at two jumps.
Leaving Montreal on a dark night, when the Americans were already within the town, Carleton went in a skiff down the river, both shores of which were already occupied by the enemy for fifty miles below Montreal.
The skiff soon carried him to an armed brig, the Fell, which lay at the foot of the Richelieu Rapids.
Immediately the skiff was water borne we lost no time in setting off on what might prove to be a perilous passage, and yet there was none of danger whatsoever in it as we soon came to know.
The water front of the village was much the same as deserted when the bow of our skiff grounded on the shore.
The way was open before us, and ere yet there were tokens in the eastern sky of the coming of a new day, we had pulled the skiff up amid the bushes more than two miles beyond Gloucester point.
The skiff still remains where we left her, I have no doubt, and by moving quickly we may be out of this trap and at our home in James Town within two hours.
He has a skiff beached below here, and I think he's waiting for the tide.
Coming to the first of the dim shapes, he grasped it and thereby propelled the skiff to another beyond.
Skiff and men had vanished,--and not a trace of the wreck floated on the angry waves!
The sailing skiff he owned was a strong boat, stoutly built,--and at first it seemed as if their efforts to ride the mountainous billows would be crowned with success.
They entreated me to lend them my assistance, and had arranged that a skiff should be placed at my command.
When all was over the four hastened away in deep dejection to the skiff at Greenwich, and so to France.
The scaffold was already being constructed in Whitehall as he spoke, but D'Artagnan had the London executioner fast bound under lock and key in a cellar, and Athos had a light skiff waiting at Greenwich.
To go at night, with only a poor fishing-skiff and a handful of men, to steal back the little king from the galley of Naples--it was not easy!
They floated about in the fishing skiff until they reached the private galley of the Signor Bernardini--so far around the coast that it would be safe for the Prince.
However, in a few moments they saw a small skiff come cutting through the waves, and before long they were all safely on board.
The man who rowed it was strangely like the image in the shrine, the position of which Chai had changed; but they were hardly out of danger when the squall had passed over, and skiff and man had both vanished.
We told him to hurry over, or we'd endeavor to assist him, and he came at last, with a miserable leaky little skiff that wet our feet completely.
When my skiff struck the shore my pursuers were about twenty rods behind me.
I remarked that his skiff sailed at a slower rate than usual toward the shore.
Then, again, the skiff put out as though to make a further reconnoiter.
We should have reached Rockburg this evening had not an accident occurred to our skiff and compelled us to put in at this island.
On arriving opposite the Zuleima Mosque, the boatman brought the skiff ashore.
I told Arcadius of the skifffastened up behind his sapling copse.
I pulled my skiff safely under shelter of some bushes.
At sight of Gunther's skiff approaching, he checks the men's laughter.
He made a run for it and jumped into the water, and when he swam around to where his skiffwas hid he found the painter had been burned through and the boat gone.
Paisley bent and pulled the skiff high up on the bank.
Injun Noah’s skiff was thar floatin’ bottom up near the middle ground.
They found hisskiff floatin’ near the middle grounds.
It had frozen during the night, and an open slash across the face of the creek showed where a skiff had crossed not many hours before.
The men in theskiff stood up and, stepping ashore, pulled the boat up after them.
At the edge of the creek he stepped into a skiffand with one movement of the paddle sent it sweeping into the rushes on the farther shore.
But theskiff was out in the centre of the stream, which was very wide just there, and the shots missed.
But the commissary saw a skiff fastened to the landing-stage of the adjoining property.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "skiff" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
