Going back for Penny's skis which had been left at the top of the ravine, he lashed them together.
Penny bent down to pick up her skiswhich had been left at the side of the hotel building.
Reaching the Fergus hotel, Penny parked her skis upright in a snowbank near the front door, and went inside.
Any fool who doesn't know enough to keep off skis ought to be crippled for life!
Penny shouldered her skis and moved toward the fence.
Skis slung over her shoulder, she began the weary climb back to the Downey lodge.
Jake, the handy man, appeared a moment later, loaded down with skisand luggage.
While Penny was forced to stem, she took the rough track with no perceptible slackening of speed, and had divested herself of skis by the time her companion reached the woods.
A few of the more enterprising ones waxed their skis in preparation for the next day's sport.
His face I could not see; but his back looked exactly like the back of a man who was trying to look as if he had been brought up on skis from a baby and was now taking a small party of enthusiastic novices out for their first lesson.
Having had my own hired skis fixed on by the concierge I felt rather superior.
I fancy that, rising from my sitting position and travelling easily on my head, I caught my skis up again and passed them.
There is also the fact that I have only hired the skisfor three weeks.
Half an hour later two exhausted people--one of them with lunch for six on his back--began the ascent to the wood, trailing their skis behind them.
It was joy to take the skis from my feet and walk on the sand among the great rocks.
The snow was so soft that my skis sank down in it until I was in the snow almost up to my knees, and I could hardly see the end of my skis, as I brought them out of the snow.
As much snow lay on the ground, I took a pair of skis and carried my clothes and books in a satchel on my back.
He slipped into his skis and departed with Father Mark.
The two Halles took their skis from beneath the overhanging ledge, where they were stored when not in use, and harnessed them to ski boots.
All three were on skis and Anton carried a blanket-wrapped object that had the size and shape of a man.
In the Alps, who ventured out on skis took his life in his hands and must have perfection.
Franz put on his skis and, with Caesar trailing, they went to the refectory.
Except for those who were too old or disabled, everybody in Dornblatt must use skis or remain housebound from the time the deep snows fell until they melted.
JEAN'S STORY Father Mark and Anton rushed to their skis and sped out to help the approaching pair.
Not even hisskis were broken, and when I discovered him, he was trying to find his companion.
Franz threw the last of the snow out of the hole, climbed out himself and at once slipped his feet into the skis that awaited him.
At the height of winter, with Franz on skis and Caesar trailing alongside or behind, the two went where they willed and always safely.
Franz moved to the stable door, slipped out of his skisand entered.
Making proper skis or ski poles was more than just a craft.
He laid these on the kitchen table, and went into the cellar, where his long skis had passed the summer.
He dressed the straps of his skis and talked, more to himself than to her.
He concluded his preparations in silence, and carried his skis outdoors to put them on.
Well, it was me who followed you on skis to the border of Norway, and that time you gave me this here dagger and said: "If you ever need me, come on!
The MILL-FOLK (MATS'S relatives) enter from the left; all are on skis and carry long staffs.
Illustration: A ski pole] In jumping with skis an abrupt drop is necessary.
To make a descent, begin at the top of a hill as one would in coasting with a sled and lean well forward with the skisparallel and with one foot slightly ahead of the other.
Skis are simply long flat pieces of wood fastened or strapped to the shoes.
In running with skis on the level ground a long, sweeping stride is used somewhat after the fashion of skating.
Illustration: Draw the ends tightly forward to fasten down the toe] [Illustration: Then tie the ends together in a bow knot back of the heel] In Norway and Sweden skis are made to order just as we might be measured for suits of clothes.
Skis are usually made of ash and the standard lengths are from six to eight feet.
By means ofskis a ski-runner may either make rapid progress over level snow or may coast down sharp declivities and make jumps of great extent.
The tendency of my skiswas all the time to diverge, and each to go off at an acute angle to my main course, and I had constantly to be on the alert to check this tendency.
The President and Major Pitcher had used skis before, but I had not, and, starting out without the customary pole, I soon came to grief.
At the President's suggestion, he and I raced on our skis down those inclines.
His baggage included not only his skis and medicine-case but a violin as well.
Jim was positive that he could make theskis and that he could use them successfully.
From one side of the cutter a pair of skis hung outward.
The morning after the skis were made, Jim Ferrers, who had relieved worn-out Tom at three in the morning, stepped to the young engineer's bunk and shook him lightly.
You can travel on skiswhere a pony would cut his legs in two against the snow crust.
On the second day of Nellie's struggle with her skis she had more success than she either anticipated or desired.
Up the hills it would crawl, for the skis climbed slowly.
Once, at some distance from the village, two tale-tellers observed a man on skis careering in the neighbourhood of the sleigh.
The skis shot up into the road, and in swerving aside swerved into a snow-laden hedge, and clean over it into the farmyard, where they stuck themselves up in the air, as skis will when the person to whose feet they are attached is lying prone.
And shortly afterwards, on the wild road towards Attalens, Denry saw a pair of skis scudding as quickly as skis can scud in their rear.
It was astonishing how the sleigh, with all the merry jingle of its bells, kept that pair of skis at a distance of about a hundred yards.
It seemed to invite the skis to overtake it, and then to regret the invitation and flee further.
Down them it galloped, for the skis slid on the slopes at a dizzy pace.
Skis seemed to her to be the most ungovernable and least practical means of travel that the madness of man had ever concocted.
The former slid away on skis and had a fine run to the bottom, while Hodgeman followed on the sledge drawn by Monkey and D'Urville, braking with an ice-axe driven into the snow between the cross-bars.
At length it occurred to us that something serious might have happened, so we left our loads and started back at a gallop for Aladdin's Cave with two empty sledges, Mertz careering ahead on skis over the sastrugi field.
As the day progressed the wind subsided and Mertz was able to put on his skis over a surface which sloped gradually away to the east.
Skis had been provided for every one, in case we should have to traverse a country where the snow lay soft and deep.
When lunch was over, the skis were unpacked, and all went for a run to the east in the direction of Masson Island.
We went out on skis to reconnoitre, and found that the nearest "lead" was too far away to make dredging a safe proposition.
It was not till the next afternoon in moderate drift that a pair of skis which had been left at the foot of 'The Steps' were located and the hut reached once again.
They were all well bridged and would support a man on skis quite easily.
Our march was interrupted at noon by a latitude observation, after which Mertz went ahead on skis singing his student songs.
Marvellous to relate we had two calm days in succession, and on the 6th the snow lay so deeply round the Hut that progression without skis was a laborious flounder.
Ahead Mertz glided along triumphant, for it was on such occasions that skis were of the greatest assistance to him.
On reaching them, Mertz cut a runner of the broken sledge into two pieces which were used in conjunction with his skis as a framework on which to pitch the spare tent-cover; our only tent and poles having been lost.
On skis one could push up the first slopes of the glacier for a long distance.
The friend had ordered new skis to be made by hotel-keeper Henry Lanning who was the master craftsman of the camp.
The next day, when the skis were in good order, the friend followed Fulford's tracks with no difficulty until beyond Bowman Gulch.
As they dined, Lanning informed them that the skis would not be ready until the next day.
They had three sledges and twenty-eight dogs, but they themselves walked on skis and looked after their teams.
He concludes that the black man on skis is some one from the Fram, but when he hears that it is Nansen himself he is still more astonished and agreeably surprised.
Once they had such level ice and a good wind behind them that they hoisted sail on the sledges, stood on skis in front of them to steer, and flew along so that the snow was thrown up around them.
There they left one of the sledges, and some broken skis were offered to the flames and made a grand fire.
Whoever this traveller with the dog may be, he has good reason for astonishment at seeing a jet-black giant come jolting on skis straight from the North Pole.
It is tiring work to march and crawl in this way, and sometimes they are so worn out that they almost go to sleep on their skis while the dogs gently trot beside them.
As they could not find a cave, they built a small stone cabin, which they roofed withskis and the silk tent.
Then Nansen fastened skis on his feet, took his gun, field-glass, and alpenstock, and flew swiftly as the wind over the white snow.
And yet in the remaining instinct of life, his feet sought the track where the skis had gone.
The party unroped, proceeded upwards on their skis towards the point marked 3496 metres, the surface of the glacier, covered with deep snow, showing no crevasses nor the indications of any.
On the descent the risk of breaking through the snow covering during the rapid progress on skis would of course be very much less than on the ascent.
This is, we think, the first fatal accident which has occurred to a party of climbers on skis bound on a serious climbing expedition.
It seemed many hours before I regained my stump of wall and found my skis lying just where I had cast them off.
I managed to get one or two good incidents there, though occasional uncertainty about my skis spoiled other fine scenes, and in my haste to move from one spot to another, I once went head over heels into a snowdrift many feet deep.
He heard Rand say something about 'skis on a plane' and 'flying farther north from there.
I knew you had noskis on your plane now and I said there must be a mistake about the message.
Jimmy had the skis on his plane replaced by wheels, for everywhere in the territory that he was likely to cover there was now bare ground.
Homemade Skis Not having a bent board suitable for a pair of skis, I proceeded to make the skis in the following manner: A cheese box was procured and two pieces cut out of the side, each 15 in.
Back Thrust Prevented on Skis To overcome the difficulty of skis slipping back when walking uphill either of the two devices shown is good, if the attachments are fastened to the rear end of the skis.
To-night Pete was tired; the load had not been heavy, but the snow was beginning to soften under the mild glowing of an April sun, and his skis had tugged at his feet and gathered a clogging mass.
He let slip the load of fresh pelts from his back, drew his feet from the skis which he stuck up on their ends in the snow, and removed the fur cap from his head and the huge dark spectacles from his eyes.
These can be riveted or even screwed to the edges of the skis (Fig.
Mrs. Alec Tweedie says of the way skis are worn in Norway: "The toes are fastened by a leather strap.
To make as perfect skis as possible they should be of rift stock, that is, split out instead of sawed; but this may seldom be practicable for you and is not really necessary.
For racing the Norwegian skis are turned up at the rear end also.
This is now commonly made of narrow strips, in principle much like several skis placed side by side--an easier form to make than the older pattern, formed of one or two wide pieces, as originally made by the Indians.
Then turning the skis over, gauge (see Gauge) parallel lines for the grooves on the bottom.
Skis are sometimes used in very rude forms--as two strips of wood with the front ends shaved down and bent up at an angle.
Balance the skis lengthways on a stick or your finger and put stout leather straps just forward of the balancing point.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "skis" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
