can't you very well see, These are three skimming-dishes my mother sent to me?' 'Ods bobs! well done! skimming-dishes with hat-bands on! The like was never known!' Old Wichet a cuckold went out, and a cuckold he came home! I went into the chamber, and there for to see, And there I saw three men in bed, by one, by two, and by three; O! I called to my loving wife, and 'Anon, kind sir!' quoth she; 'O! what do these three men here, without the leave of me?'
'Why, you old fool! blind fool!英文原著 · 《Ancient Poems》
{16} This appears to have been a favourite remark of Mr. Skimpole's. It will be noticed that, quite without intending it, Mr. Skimpole was the founder of our New Cyrenaic School.英文原著 · 《Old Friends》
Humble, he sat him on Skimming's back, So gallantly can he ride; But Skimming thought it passing strange That a spur was clapt to his side.英文原著 · 《Romantic Ballads》
Today a frock the color of a rose had been put on her, and Mariette had bought some real buds and made her a wreath to wear on her black locks. She had been learning a new, delightful dance in which she had been skimming and flying about the room, like a large rose-colored butterfly, and the enjoyment and exercise had brought a brilliant, happy glow into her face.英文原著 · 《A Little Princess》
Next came hosts of locusts, the spawn of those conjured up by Moses, and the ship was covered with them. At length, though, it surged on a lifeless blue sea, where they saw no things around them, except from time to time the flying fish skimming along the level water.英文原著 · 《AN ICELAND FISHERMAN》
``And now,'' says Conwell, abruptly, with his characteristic skim- ming over of the intermediate details between the important beginning of a thing and the satisfactory end, ``and now that young man is one of our college presidents.''英文原著 · 《Acres of Diamonds》
"I will gut you like a hog." To be clear, I only skimmed the note.美剧 · 《2 Broke Girls》