Frantically the boys labored to get out of the way, but it was almost impossible until the air-propellers should start, and send the Comet skimming over the surface.
The speed of the motor-ship was now increased, and she was skimming along through the air, almost up to the limit of her previous record before the changes were made.
She was sent skimming along the ground on the bicycle wheels, and, when enough momentum had been acquired, the steersman tilted the elevation rudder and up soared the Comet again.
There was a hum and a buzz, the propellers whirred around, and, skimming lightly over the surface of the ocean, the Comet suddenly arose, and shot into the air.
Jerry to a little flotilla of rowing and motor craft that were in the path he proposed to take in skimming over the surface of the water.
I saw a single barn swallow skimming along as at home.
Positively, Robin Page,” Marjorie declared fervently one soft fall afternoon as the two girls left the dormitory site after a consultation with Peter Graham, “things are simply skimming along.
Soon they had left the dignified town to its late afternoon drowsing and were skimming along Hamilton Highway.
Perhaps in years to come Rosine would think how true, how faithful his love had been, and would drop a tear--maybe in the cream she would be skimming for Pink Dawson's breakfast.
He will squeeze this revolution dry of sensations, and a week afterward will forget it, skimming the seas of the world in his brigantine to add to his already world-famous collections.
The grapnel was once let out at the height of about sixty yards when they were skimming along with great velocity, and at first took no hold, but finally caught in the edge of a small pond.
At almost any time during the week of Christmas vacation, the Frost King might have been seen skimming swiftly over the ice with as many boys on board as she could carry.
As the strip of ice increased in width, a few ice-boats made their appearance, skimming along shore like great white gulls.
Look at that shadow of a cloudskimming over Christchurch Meadow.
When he pointed to a flock of flying fish skimming in a blue and silver phantasy above a turquoise floor, she called them the souls of birds that had flown too far from land, and been drowned at sea.
His peasant hat, skimming along the gravel, touched now and again with a hissing sound the surface of small stones.
In open country the jungle owlet and the dusky-horned owl call at intervals, and the Indian nightjar (Caprimulgus asiaticus) imitates the sound of a stone skimming over ice.
So busy, skimming off the smooth cream, she felt the light touch of hands on her shoulders--felt more than that on her cheek.
Dowagers as plenty as flounders inhabit all around, and Pope's ghost is just now skimming under my window by a most poetical moonlight.
Who has not wondered, as he has seen the red rim of the sun sink down in the sea, where the little brood of Mother Carey's chickens skimminground the vessel would sleep that night?
Peace reigned after that; and along in July the five white eggs had found wings and were skimming about the fly-filled air or counting and preening themselves demurely in a solemn row upon the wire fence.
You can hear the whistle of their wings as they pass just above your head, skimming along the marsh.
I slip, I slide, I gloom, I glance, Among my skimming swallows; I make the netted sunbeam dance Against my sandy shallows.
Thus skimmingthe surface, they ploughed it in their course; the water was quite smooth, and it formed a most curious spectacle to behold a flock, each bird leaving its narrow wake on the mirror-like surface.
The men bent to the oars again and sent the little craft skimming through the water.
As fast as they could pick them up and throw, rocks went skimming across the water, falling on both sides, and in front and behind the boat.
Milk is "adulterated" by skimming off part of the cream, also by the addition of water.
Dissolve one pound of sugar in about a gill of water, boil for a few minutes, skimming it till quite clear.
The sugar should be added after the skimming is completed.
Nothing marred its beauty, save now and then a sportive fish gliding over its bosom, or the swallow skimming along, catching the flies as they rose from the quenching of their thirst.
The birds were twittering about the boughs, and swallows were skimming the bosom of the lake.
Frank Buckland said that one might as well shoot a swallow skimming over a turnip-field as a dipper over the spawning beds.
Then it flies, skimming low over the furze and heather, and alights on a granite boulder similar to the one it has just left.
We advance over the heather; and there, skimmingtowards us, is a large hawk--a harrier.
It belongs to every sea, and although so seeming frail it breasts the utmost fury of the storm, skimming with incredible velocity the trough of the waves, and gliding rapidly over their snowy crests.
If yonder mountains all were gold, And yonder streams were wine; The whole for Skimming I would not take; I bless God he is mine.
Sivard is a purblind swain; Sees not to his faulchion's end: If Skimming were hurt thou couldst not pay me With the help of thy every friend.
Then loud laugh'd Vidrik Verlandson, And Skimming began to neigh, For Sivard rooted the oak tree up; He dar'd no longer stay.
Now have I won from thee the prize, And Skimming belongs to me; But, tell me, youthful and gallant swain, What parents gave birth to thee?
Humble, he sat him on Skimming's back, So gallantly can he ride; But Skimming thought it passing strange That a spur was clapt to his side.
Skimming sprang up, with both his legs, Against the giant's side Asunder went five of his rib-bones then, And the fight began at that tide.
Vidrik spoke to his burly groom: "Go, saddle me Skimming gray, For I will ride to the wood, and hear What Sivard himself will say.
In a few minutes the canoe, with its precious freight and Thursday at the steering-paddle, was thrust through the wild surf, and went skimming over the smooth sea beyond.
In a few minutes the boat was skimming over the calm water towards the shore, while the Bounty, wearing round, went slowly out to sea.
Presently, just where the glory of the sunset reflected itself in the river, she saw a boat coming skimming down the current.
Swallows were skimming up overhead from the placid surface of the Yukon, and robins were singing.
Somewhere he had once seen a winged Mercury, and he wondered if Mercury felt as he felt when skimmingover the earth.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "skimming" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
