Scarce had they turned the corner when a titter Like the skipping of rabbits by moonlight,--three slim shapes, And a face that looked up .
I wish my skipping shoes would let me fly up somewhere, instead of carrying me on errands and where I ought to go all the time," said Kitty, watching the pretty things glitter as they flew.
Fay, skipping about to do the honors of the place.
Kitty was delighted to hear that; for she had longed to go, and went on skipping as hard as she could, that she might learn some of the graceful steps the shoes took before the day was done.
Rose thought it was delightful, and kept skipping up and down the path, wishing all the time that she were aunt Alice, with a new trunk and going to have a trip on the cars.
Guru at last succeeded in putting a stop to her Vandalic energy, and threatened to slap her; but the little imp escaped, skipping about the room and wiping her grimy little fingers on the silk cushions.
Being tired with skipping and butting at me in vain, the whole herd trotted away, and I after them.
Heaven knows the "Skipping Sensei" needs all the prayers of the congregation!
An epidemic of skipping has swept over Hiroshima like the measles!
Skipping lightly from step to step, she went to the upper story and dropped in on the Ioghels.
Several deer had on the previous day come skipping around me, fearless of the approach of man.
We were in the highroad, striding the ruts and skipping over stones like two boys on the way home from school.
The sun shone brightly, and I easily kept comfortable by skipping up and down a long walk, bordered on the northern side by an arbor-vitæ hedge.
My noble liege, all my request Is for a noble knight, Who, though mayhap he has done wrong, He thought it still was right.
Here come the Grenadiers, my boys, who know no doubts or fears!
Their spirits rose again as fast as they had sunk; and it was a lively walk through the park to the great house, with a good deal of skipping and jumping at first, and then, near the door, a little awe and gravity.
A little man, completely bald, with staring eyes and a savage look, was skipping along backwards behind them reciting paternosters.
Perhaps," said the latter, still skipping before him and imitating him, "it is the result of some sudden madness that you should thus be going the contrary way to everybody else.
All her stock of novels she lent to Laura, who read them, every one, in secret, skipping only the dull and didactic pages.
The gentle, beautiful chain of hills which encircle Florence smile cheerfully in the sunshine, clapping their hands and skipping like lambs, if little hills ever did make such a demonstration.
She was watching and talking to a little girl who was skipping back and forth between a rough tea-table set near the fire and an open cupboard-door in the wall.
Then the two clasped hands and went skipping home.
They came tumbling, cheering, and skipping in, curls bobbing, eyes shining.
The dances were just whirling and skipping and jumping, each dancer by himself, but all in a circle.
In skipping from the fifth to the root, or the reverse, in the lower part, do so in an upward direction.
Both partsskipping in contrary motion to a fifth or octave should be avoided in two-part writing.
He took in his arms the two smallest children, and pressing them closely to his broad chest with his long sinewy arms, was soon skipping from rock to rock like a mountain goat.
You can imagine little Roman boys skipping across from block to block and trying to keep their sandals dry.
Everywhere these gay little creatures are skipping about at their play among the beautiful red spaces and large pictures.
I remind myself of my boyish amusement of skipping stones,--throwing a flat stone so that it shall only touch the water, but touch it in half a dozen places before it comes to rest beneath the smooth surface.
He hopped about playfully, skipping much higher and farther at each hop than I had ever seen him do before.
I drank it in deep breaths, and felt like skipping about for joy.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "skipping" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: bouncing; jumping; leaping; omission; prancing; saltatory; steeplechase; vaulting
