The Axis is a timid and harmless creature, more ornamental to the landscape, where it skips and plays in a wild state, than useful to man.
The skips opposing each other shall settle by lot, or in any other way they may agree upon, which party shall lead at the first head, after which the winning party shall do so.
Skips to have full liberty to clean and sweep the ice behind the tee at any time, except when a player is being directed by his skip.
Skips alone to stand at or about the tee--that of the playing party having the choice of place, and not to be obstructed by the other.
It skipsupon the surface of the water, or swims among the weeds beneath; and is noised about in myriads of tell-tale songs among the reeds and sedges.
A quick, sharp whistle surprises you from the herbage near by, and a striped chickaree skips across the leaves and dives into his burrow at the foot of an old stump not far away.
He skips up the creaking, bending ladder, lightly tosses a twelve-stone colleague on his back, in the most unconcerned manner, and as blithely skips down again.
The steam-shovel did not discriminate, but picked up handily single pieces weighing five or six tons and loaded them on the skips with quantities of smaller lumps.
The blast would dislodge thirty to thirty-five thousand tons of rock, which was scooped up by great steam-shovels and loaded on to skips carried by a line of cars on a narrow-gauge railroad running to and from the crushing mill.
When the skips arrived at the giant rolls, their contents were dumped automatically into a superimposed hopper.
You know an offensive little creature, de par le monde, one Jack Morris, who skips in and out of all the houses of London.
Barbeau, who skips away from the lunge behind the chaplain, who looks rather alarmed.
A derrick handled the skips between the sump and the work.
It was found best to deliver the skips of concrete to the cableway on small railway track, although the original plan had been to move the cableways horizontally along the trestle at the same time that the skip was traveling.
The farmer's daughter hath ripe red lips; (Butter and eggs and a pound of cheese) If you try to approach her, away she skips Over tables and chairs with apparent ease.
Now and then she gave two or three skips and pulled on the hand she held so tightly.
She caught one hand in both of hers and gave a few skips of joy.
If the beginning does not attract him, he skipsdown the column to the next paragraph, glancing merely at enough words in the paragraph that he skips to "get the drift of it.
Saturday noon comes an 'd' last sucker who belongs to d' bankskips out.
A man that skipsout with nothing, and a man that skips out with a quarter of a million, are in two different classes; and it wouldn't surprise me the least bit if there was six ships aiming for Manihiki simultaneous.
Then were all the skips and hops repeated, my boy; with such ornamental bits of occasional fine art as the refined reporters of our excellent moral daily journals love to dwell fondly upon.
Now they make skips toward each other; and now they skip back.
The steelyard is adjusted to exactly counterbalance the unloaded belt or skips of its length, but rises in proportion to the load.
Now to the left he smok'd along, Amidst a motley Grecian throng Of rogues, that made confounded skips To reach their rotten boats and ships: None look behind to help their mates, But dart like lightning through the gates.
Skips save the time of the men engaged in the lateral haulage, as they have no delay waiting for the winding engine.
The handling of two cages or skips with one engine or motor, the descending skip partially balancing the ascending one.
Where loading into skips is to be provided for, bins must be cut underneath and sufficient room be provided to shift the mine cars comfortably.
The use ofskips instead of cages, thus permitting of a greater percentage of paying load.
Skips must be loaded from bins underground, and by providing in the bins storage capacity, shaft haulage is rendered independent of the lateral transport in the mine, and there are no delays to the engine awaiting loads.
Skips are constructed to carry loads of from two to seven tons, the general tendency being toward larger loads every year.
This entails a shaft compartment double the size required for skips of the same capacity, and thus enormously increases shaft cost without gaining anything.
A ten-inch shot screams through the air, and skips along the water towards the Little Rebel.
Pa never reads a whole chapter, but reads a verse or two and skips around.
Then she runs in and jumps or skips once, and the others follow suit; then she skips twice and runs out, then three times, the others all following in turn until one trips or fails.
Ay, like a spirit in Hell who skipsand flies To right and left, and cannot scape the flame.
The movement of the narrative is not orderly and sequential, but rambles around, and skips forward and back and here and there and yonder, 'prentice-fashion.
Readers, she then skips some thirty pages and takes up the subject again.
And then she skips all her platform people; never mentions one of them.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "skips" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
