Usar "skirting" en una oración

1. It was a pity that no-one had thought it worthwhile to worry that the skirting boards didn’t line up where the dividing wall had obviously been taken out

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2. Keeping my eyes down, I mull over the statement … the last Element? What is he talking about? I haven’t retrieved the last one yet … He goes on to describe how we were pursued by Antis, escaping through Joris’ skill, though stopping short of mentioning that Joris actually killed two men and completely skirting over the actual cause of Joris’ death

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3. Without a word, Berndt turns along a trackway skirting the edge of Gloster, leaving the town on our right and striking across the valley towards the river

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4. In no time at all, I was skirting pot-holes and diggers, tearing down the new road past sunlit villages towards the airport

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5. He is skirting the Ohmu Inn and running directly for Miner’s Hold

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6. The torch gave good light and he made reasonable time for about half an hour, striding across the rough grass and moss, skirting any reeds he came across

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7. He tramped on, skirting pools of stagnant water – thanking his stars that he hadn’t blundered into one of those in the darkness

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8. They parted on the road skirting the amphitheatre - the

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9. Though it was actually skirting an ancient burial ground of block-shaped crypts, she’d pretend it was the crossroads

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10. During the day, when Shelagh was busy tending her garden, or working in her greenhouse or dealing with her 'callers', as she preferred to call her patients, Rosemary would take long walks, skirting the village as much as possible

11. She stood on a dark stage with dark silk skirting where she danced in front of the three musicians who were also Torvellen

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12. Ten minutes later, I was heading around the backside of the house, skirting the wood-line like I always have, making my way up past the garden where I had helped plant, weed, and spread manure throughout the years

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13. By midday they were in the bottom of the valley, after skirting the forest

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14. They passed the last of the city’s industrial buildings and crossed the railroad tracks skirting the lake

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15. The enemy crossed the Cobre Hills at daybreak, and skirting the bay, entered the city during the truce

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16. Over the next two weeks they proceeded to strip the wallpaper in all the rooms, remove all the skirting boards and clear the house of all the furniture

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17. The cottage should be on the other side of the field he was skirting

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18. He crossed over a long ridge of moorland skirting the side of a high hill

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19. ous waters, skirting disaster

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20. trees skirting tremorously the shining earth

21. Skirting the screen was a honeybee, trying to find an opening into which he could fly

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22. Skirting the truth to be sure, yet true enough to avoid compromising my honor, I think, because even before you passed the border I could tell that the Illusions and Force barriers of the Wards were not affecting you

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23. Once out the gate, they turned left skirting the edge of the town of Bien Hoa

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24. The path from the cave would lead them away from the village and round to the south-west, skirting the winter fields and the edge of the wood, but this would take longer

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25. Focusing on the other man’s face, he concentrated again, this time more deeply, and found himself skirting the forefront of the Overlord’s mind

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26. skirting behind buildings to listen for where the two children

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27. Niels, with his eyes skirting restlessly around the room,

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28. You drive through a traffic light skirting through just on the yellow to red transition

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29. Then I will probably head west, skirting around the south of the city by backroads and then taking the Freeway

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30. It was a strange journey, in that black, slim craft down the great river for nearly two hundred miles to where the Khorotas swings eastward, skirting the Poitanian mountains

31. Skirting the extremities of the hills that locked the Valley of Lions, they swung wide to the west

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32. The Hyrkanians were not convinced; three more invasions burst upon the Zamorian borders, and the Lands of Shem, and were hurled back by the Aquilonians, though the Turanian armies grew larger as hordes of steel-clad riders rode out of the east, skirting the southern extremity of the inland sea

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33. Before the attacks of the Nordheimr and the Cimmerians, they destroyed all their cities, butchered such captives as were not fit to make the long march, and then, herding thousands of slaves before them, rode back into the mysterious east, skirting the northern edge of the sea, and vanishing from western history, until they rode out of the east again, thousands of years later, as Huns, Mongols, Tatars and Turks

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34. Quickly skirting the first building the pair headed for the second structure about 100 yards away

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35. He made no comment when the nurse fell but did stop as she struggled to her feet, then with a grunt continued in a southeasterly direction skirting the edge of a dank patch of saw grass interspersed with patches of dark water

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36. Skirting the eastern edge of the deeper water, the Indian plunged into knee deep water and felt a tremendous relief as his moccasins sank into the Everglades muck

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37. Curly Pete searches the floor frantically and finds the screw up against the skirting board

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38. back, skirting the town as best they could

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39. Skirting the wrap-around porch were beds of flowers

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40. She felt excitement rise in her as her group approached the eastern coast of Luzon, skirting the coastal town of Mauban from the North

41. After skirting around Teotihuacan, we caught up with the rear guard Jodas had posted

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42. Avoiding all State Weight Inspection stations by carefully skirting around them on

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43. My bet is that this is an enemy solitary plane, probably a reconnaissance aircraft, skirting the Spanish border and using the Pyreneans to confuse our radars

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44. A frightened stag might move thus through forest and briar, skirting old growth oaks

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45. By the time that someone answered her after her third call, she was skirting the eastern coast of Spain at an altitude of forty kilometers and a speed of 8,300 kilometers per hour

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46. They are skirting the outer permiter, gauging defensive capabilities and security sensors

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47. much longer than he would have wished skirting Amazon Country

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48. flaking out and skirting her duties to the company

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49. It wasn’t the most scenic of routes, as they travelled along the north shore of the lake, skirting the foothills, but there were occasional spectacular views of the snow-capped mountains across the water

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50. ‘If you have nothing to do, the skirting boards need a wash

51. The skirting was pleated in the back, adding fullness to the latest style of the day

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52. We, skirting the forest on the other side, were in deep shadow

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53. This time he made off in a different direction, skirting the smattering of shanties along the foreshore with enough skip in his heel to easily betray his bearing

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54. uncoupled and connected to a second train that would take the southern route, skirting the

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55. It seems stupid but having measured up and cut the pieces, laid them down and connected them finishing off the aesthetic with the skirting

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56. A few minutes later we were skirting Green Park

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57. She lands, on the ground, in a fit of rolls that scrape her skin and send her skirting through the tall grass on the right side of the road

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58. They left on horseback, heading due east, skirting the foothills of the Mountains of Death

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59. Nudging the damaged book with the toe of her slipper, she slid it beneath the bed skirting, an annoyance for Adorno later

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60. together"--- a herd of chronic traversers in a fixed position, skirting

61. In order to avoid skirting the issue, and in order to

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62. they traveled out of Africa, skirting all of Asia that was already populated by Neanderthals: and ended up in the continent of Australia

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63. Outside, the storm was full blown, williwaws blistering down the sides of houses, screeching winds fastening around all objects, tearing at joints and roots, clouds of snow flying on eddies in all directions, funnels of powder skirting the pavement, sticking to the shadows of filth, layer upon layer, deeper and deeper, as my feet sank into the white earth, destination known and unknown

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64. Skirting the table proved difficult

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65. `I see they've put a new piece of skirting here,' he observed

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66. The man was painting the skirting, and just then he came to a part that was split in several places,

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67. Easton continued painting the skirting

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68. Easton put some putty in a crack in the skirting

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69. Having faced up the cracks, Easton resumed the painting of the skirting

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70. and when doing the skirting he had included part of the floor,

71. “I know,” Claire said, and Lydia could tell from her dark expression that her sister had been skirting around this possibility for a while

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72. For instance, one man did the window, the other the door: when these were finished both men did the skirting; by the time the skirting was finished the door and window were dry enough to second coat; and then, on the following day - the finishing coat!

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73. In one of the upper rooms which had evidently been used as a nursery or playroom for the children of the renowned chef, the wallpaper for about two feet above the skirting was blackened with grease and ornamented with childish drawings made with burnt sticks and blacklead pencils, the door being covered with similar artistic efforts, to say nothing of some rude attempts at carving, evidently executed with an axe or a hammer

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74. At about ten minutes to eight, Jim had squared the part of the work he had been doing - the window - so he decided not to start on the door or the skirting until after breakfast

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75. We were skirting by a city

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76. At last, after skirting carefully round some openings from which there was a distinct smell of rats, they halted in a kind of pit

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77. Skirting a small lake, they had stared to see a great gray fisher bird that stabbed and paddled in the sedge, until a flight of wild duck had frightened them away with their clamor

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78. My dungarees were still damp from skirting the sea, and bits of sand shook out onto the floor that had been caught in the rolled-up folds

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79. “You know you’re skirting around the edges of the law,” Annette said

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80. The convoy skirting a little wood, along the mine trail, between the mud huts and low walls of Rincon, increased its pace on the camino real, mules urged to speed, escort galloping, Don Carlos riding alone ahead of a dust storm affording a vague vision of long ears of mules, of fluttering little green and white flags stuck upon each cart; of raised arms in a mob of sombreros with the white gleam of ranging eyes; and Don Pepe, hardly visible in the rear of that rattling dust trail, with a stiff seat and impassive face, rising and falling rhythmically on an ewe-necked silver-bitted black brute with a hammer head

81. I already knew that the papers were probably in the room, but I had no desire to rip up all the planking and skirting in search of them

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82. As of our last reports, the majority of the enemy’s shipping is using the Trosan Channel—” Hektor’s pointer swooped down to tap the hundred-and-forty-mile-wide stretch of water between the eastern tip of Hilda Island and the Dohlar Bank “—or staying even farther east and skirting the Dohlaran coast through the Fern Narrows

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83. Keeping the Vale on her right, she steered steadily westward; passing above the Hintocks, crossing at right-angles the high-road from Sherton-Abbas to Casterbridge, and skirting Dogbury Hill and

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84. It was connected with the doctor’s studious skirting of the word “father” and its equivalents, which of course kept the person they referred to at the very front of Charlie’s mind

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85. Having silenced Objection by force of unreason, Will walked to Lowick as if he had been on the way to Paradise, crossing Halsell Common and skirting the wood, where the sunlight fell broadly under the budding boughs, bringing out the beauties of moss and lichen, and fresh green growths piercing the brown

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86. Turning to the left and skirting this huge hedge Treebeard came in a

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87. Westward, to his right, it turned, skirting the shoulders of the mountains,

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88. 13 Wall, the tracking car went skirting past

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89. I could feel tourists watching us, a few sentimental bursts of applause from the romantics, not to mention a lot of annoyed or indifferent people skirting around us, but I didn’t care

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90. I bushwhacked with my arms, skirting a huge knot of thorny scrub the way Moses had obviously done before me

91. Skirting behind the birches in order not to leave obvious tracks through the middle of the lawn, he found the stream along the back of the Filigree Street gardens and followed it north

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