Reading history bears about the same relation to reading mild love stories and overdrawn adventures that football or skating bears to stringing beads.

" So saying, he wheeled round and skated away, the whole crowd of skaters, small and great, following him at full speed.

She and Judith and Lawrence skated a great deal, and Sylvia learned at last to cut the grapevine pattern on the ice.

"This won't do," added Monteith, after they had skated some distance farther; "we are now so far from the animals that they cannot trouble us again; we are deserting her in the most cowardly manner.

There is a certain governor, of whom we personally can remember only, that he found the Fresh Pond heronry, which we sought in vain; and in memory the august sheriff of a neighboring county still skates in victorious pursuit of us, (fit emblem of swift-footed justice!)

Girlsgirls mounted side and astride, girls in racing-shells and skiting motor-boats, in limousines and runabouts, in dirigibles and 'planes;seaside, mountain and prairie girls; house-boat, hunting and skating girls; even a vivid parlor varietyall conventional, colorful and unsigned.

A mishap How Jenkins skated Your life until the present (a summary)

After that I managed to skate around a little, but let me tell you, that night I got down on the floor to take my shoes off all right, but it took Estellethat's my maidand a derrick to get me up again.

"We will skate about a mile, and then we will rest, and have a little skating race, perhaps, and afterward we can eat our lunch.

If the Germanic alderman who protested that "vimmins" did not know anything about boys' play was in office at the time, one wonders what his emotions were when the playgrounds committee first appeared before the Council and asked to have vacant lots flooded to give children skating ponds in winter.

You can break holes through the ice and fish, and then there are ice boats, and skating races, and all sorts of things.

She is like the boys, who seek danger for its own sake, and will skim on skates the rim of the black pool that descends from the film of ice down to the bubbling well of death below.

It makes fine flooring and is used in skating rinks and for bowling alleys.

Joe took hold of the table's leg nearest him and skated the table forcefully down the corridor after the escaping pirate.

"Mistress Betty," said a voice just behind her, and with a little start she realized that the obnoxious scarlet coat had reached her side, "will you skate a turn with me down the pond?"

" The Seventeen Little Bears skated on and on, the wind whistling in their ears.

They skated a few yards in silence.