Which preposition to use with skipping

about Occurrences 49%

They were confiding, affectionate, loving little children, and my heart warmed towards them, as I saw them waltzing and dancing and skipping about under the green foliage of the trees.

over Occurrences 24%

On he went, in zig-zag profusion of steps and occasional high skips over incidental shadows of branches which he for snakes, until the Pauper Burial Ground was reached, and MCLAUGHLIN'S hidden subterranean retreat therein attained.

like Occurrences 17%

Sometimes also little Mona, a girl of his own age, would be running about; and she also, if she caught sight of Willie, was sure to come hopping and skipping like a bird to have a talk with him, and beg him to take her up, which, he as often assured her, was all but impossible.

from Occurrences 14%

And if a fair Princess should be missing at the noon and her palace be skipped from sight, it will follow on the rubbing of it.

along Occurrences 13%

" "It will be, if you do it, papa; I'm sure of that," and by this time they had reached the gate, and Patty was skipping along the path and up the steps, and into the door of her own home.

into Occurrences 12%

When she was gracefully seated in the stern Mr. Carr turned for a moment, stared all Oyster Bay calmly in the face through his monocle, then, untying the painter, fairly skipped into the boat with a step distinctly frolicsome.

out Occurrences 11%

" The words skipped out of either mouth like gleeful little devils.

to Occurrences 11%

Nimbly the foe skipped to either side and Harris felt a keen pain in his right side.

in Occurrences 10%

The health and growth of our young domestic animals is best promoted by suffering them to walk, run, and skip in their own way.

across Occurrences 10%

It's my belief he means to skip across the border.

with Occurrences 8%

But you Americans will have to learn that generations of blood and breeding are not to be skipped with impunity.

through Occurrences 4%

The first human creature he had seen outside his cell since he became an inmate of this prison appeared before his eyes,the young girl skipping through the garden till she came to the flower-bed and plucked the scarlet blossom.

of Occurrences 3%

In those dim geologic epochs, where annals are written on Mica Slate, Clay Slate, and Silurian Systems, on Old Red Sandstones and New, on Primary and Secondary Rocks and Tertiary Chalk-beds, there were topsy-turvyings amongst the hills and gambollings and skippings of mountains, to which the piling of Pelion upon Ossa was a mere cobblestone feat.

of Occurrences 3%

It seems they had quarrelled, and on his leaving her in the drawing- room, she called after him, that he might go about his business, for she did not care two skips of a louse for him.

for Occurrences 2%

We've got to lose whoever follows us before we skip for home.

among Occurrences 2%

For reply, the stranger began to skip among his cohorts, jerking out his white legs like a dancing marionette.

on Occurrences 2%

Would those stiff trees, that had outlived the eagle, turn young and airy pages to him, to skip on his errands when he bade them?

before Occurrences 2%

Eh?" The lantern skipped before them across the garden, through a penitential courtyard, and under a vaulted way to the main door and the road.

past Occurrences 2%

The train was shaking from side to side like a ship at sea, and we were skipping past the foothills so fast that they looked like fence posts.

round Occurrences 2%

Polly was skipping round the room, I guess, gay as a lark.

at Occurrences 2%

The trouble with them was they were making a collection of badges and when you're out for badges, you skip at lot of pages in the Handbook, that's sure.

towards Occurrences 2%

Leonard instantly called to her, and on hearing his voice, the little animal instantly changed her angry tones to a gladsome whine, and, skipping towards him, fawned at his feet.

without Occurrences 2%

Here the reader is requested to excuse a brief parenthetical chapter by way of illustration, which, if he pleases, he may skip without any loss of continuity in the narrative, or the least offence in the world to the writer.

down Occurrences 2%

A strange and unanalysed sense of secrecy had fallen upon them; Gloria whispered, "Good-night, Mark," and then calling, "Here I am, mamma; just cooling off," she went skipping down the porch, slipped her arm about her mother, and carried her back into the house.

off Occurrences 1%

The sun skips off the water, impossibly bright, impossibly blue.

Which preposition to use with  skipping