As lightly as a fairy the hydroplane skimmed over the water; then went soaring in the air.

Two or three times I made up my mind that I was a goner, as the water piled up around me along over the falls; but somehow our very speed made our boat glance upward at such times, and skim along the surface like a duck.

Skim off the fat; heat and mix with flour until brown; let boil.

He skimmed through several picture-papers that were lying about, and then took up a novel.

Then with powerful strokes the rowers sent the boat skimming across the water toward Duke Town.

Let his be the eagle's flight towards the sun, and theirs to skim in darkness along the ground, like the course of the mousing owl.

None of the skimmings of contemporary gossip poured out in the two volumes deserves the least consideration, save such as reveal the fair writer's relations with other authors.

Skim out the fruit, and into the boiling juice stir a scant cup of granulated wheat flour previously rubbed to a paste with a little cold water; cook fifteen or twenty minutes, pour over the fruit, and serve cold with cream sauce.

It is a sign when there begin to be hawks skimming above the sage that the little people are going about their business.

The days are shortening with frightful rapidity, and the great bay was actually covered with a skim of ice this very morning.

"That is the last we shall see of him," The grizzled captain grinned, As the little man skimmed down the hill, Like a swallow down the wind.

She remembered the car flying up the ascents, swooping down long slopes and skimming like a bird across the levels, that morning when she had driven it.

She was of a type common enough on the high seas, except that a step for a mast showed that she had presumably been used for skimming about open shores.

But the dark-eyed beauty in the automobile had given a quick order to the chauffeur, and the car skimmed on down the road.

Consequently, Frank was able to veer aside and skim past the dangerous obstruction without coming a "cropper" in the ditch.

"Cream skimmed from different milkings, if churned at the same time in one churn, should be mixed eight to ten hours before churning; then the cream will all come alike.

He skimmed beneath the green waters; he floated on the rolling wave-tips; he trod water; he turned heels over head in the emerald depths; and thus, gamboling like an Infant Triton, he passed out beyond the breakers.

"I don't know why it is, but the present generation has a marvelous way of skimming around any kind of work with their hands, They'll work their brains till they haven't got any more backbone than a caterpillar, but as for manual labor, it's old-timey and out of fashion.

There was snow on the ground and the little pools were skimmed with ice.

After lying awake half the night thinking it over, he arose this morning with the firm intention of competing with Skim for the village laurels.

Here one would say is the cream risen to the surface of a full mind and skimmed at one taking.

The little birds went skimming by us, as we sailed, their breasts upon the water, and we could see the gunners creeping through the marshes beside them.

Line the stewpan with the bacon, put in the cabbage, carrots, and onions; moisten with skimmings from the stock, and simmer very gently, till the cabbage is tender; add the stock, stew softly for half an hour, and carefully skim off every particle of fat.

So, as the sun sinks, you pass back from the peace of the Mother Pilgrim's grave to the noise of the holiday-making crowd; and turning homewards you hear above you the message of the green parrakeets skimming towards the tomb "like a flight of emerald arrows stolen from the golden quiver of the Twilight.

Dowagers as plenty as flounders inhabit all around, and Pope's ghost is just now skimming under my window by a most poetical moonlight.