Skipping
[skɪp]
Definition
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Skip
Typist: Paul
Examples
- Always running about and screeching, always playing and fighting, always skip-skip-skipping on the pavement and chalking it for their games! Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- Amelia should be a small, light, girlish, skipping figure. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
- Tippins all abroad about the legs, and seeking to express that those unsteady articles are only skipping in their native buoyancy. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- He came skipping towards me in great glee. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- It is all over now; but when I look back, the idea of these venerable fossils skipping forth on a six months' picnic, seems exquisitely refreshing. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
Typist: Paul