Skirted

Examples

• She skirted the bank and went round to the wicket before the house, where she stood motionless, looking at the scene. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• I had been looking at the road that skirted the shore for guards but did not see any. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
• But he was still dizzy with the glimpse of the precipice they had skirted, and full of a new awe at the mystery of young-girlhood. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
• It was the figure of an old man with a bowed head, wearing a large brimmed low-crowned hat, and a long-skirted coat. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• She did not turn her head to look at a group of dark creatures further on, who fled from her presence as she skirted a ravine where they fed. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• A thick wood skirted the meadow-land in another direction; but they could not have gained that covert for the same reason. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
• The coat was wide-skirted; and in that respect like _the_ coat, but, oh how different! Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
• He had a long wide-skirted bottle-green coat on, and a bottle-green pair of trousers, and a bottle-green waistcoat. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• As far as the eye could reach gorgeous forest and crimson sward skirted a silent sea, and about all towered the brilliant monster guardian cliffs. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• The curious way she skirted round the subject sent a new, subtle caress through his veins. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• I skirted fields, and hedges, and lanes till after sunrise. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• Large, broad-skirted laced coats, with great cuffs and no collars; and wigs, gentlemen--great formal wigs with a tie behind. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.

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