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skimmed
1. After a few years of nothing but Christmas cards and the odd stilted letter between the two women, which Sheila skimmed over rather ineffectually, Don’s job in Italy ended and they went home to Scotland
2. and skimmed across the roof tops, turning dead-head flowers to
3. Casually he threw a flat stone and it skimmed across the river, falling just short of the bank on the other side
4. She wears no make up and has skimmed her hair with the brush
5. Andy’s memory went into fast rewind as he skimmed over the events of the last few weeks; he debated speedily which bits he could safely put in and which it would be best to leave out
6. He looked back over his responses and skimmed his essays, the looked to be sure there were no other pages of the test which he might have overlooked, satisfied, he replaced his paperwork in the envelope, wrote his full name upon the flap, and raised his hand
7. The little offals of their own table, their whey, skimmed milk, and butter milk, supply those animals with a part of their food, and they find the rest in the neighbouring fields, without doing any sensible damage to any body
8. My hands skimmed across his chest to lay flat against his firm abdomen
9. I skimmed through the parts that had nothing to do with the demon
10. But those moments had already skimmed past on the stream of time, like the hot streams of water washing over her
11. blubber melted into oil where it was skimmed off the surface,
12. Jack skimmed through the book, a reflection on how he wanted to
13. Her eyes skimmed over the bookcases filled with classical literature
14. ‘I guess being saved more than once is too much to expect from Him,’ Elekka said, watching through the view screen as the XK3 skimmed above the seabed, unnervingly hitting the odd lump of rock
15. The three Officers skimmed through the statements and I could see their eyebrows lifting
16. Far away, so faint that she almost missed them, two stars skimmed across the horizon
17. His free hand skimmed over my body, up from my thigh, under the shirt, and then he was pulling it off over my head
18. “You will see,” he murmured as his lips skimmed my ear
19. Another thing they didn’t know was that Brian skimmed their profit and, the longer it went on, the bolder he got
20. In a couple of minutes, he’d skimmed through most of the folder and he had picked up the second one
21. Taking a minute to gather his thoughts as he skimmed once
22. Tomo’s boat skimmed quickly over the water towards the waterfront
23. I skimmed through the pages while spending every moment wishing that I was outside with the others
24. and the dross comes to the top, where it is skimmed off
25. Keep well skimmed
26. Finally, in an outburst of anger, Ijyu threw everything into the trash and decided to prepare only a few slices of whole-wheat bread with skimmed milk for Kami and Yania to eat
27. His e-box was full, and he skimmed the notes which looked urgent
28. Unmistakably from a glossy picture skimmed over too many times
29. of the Heavenly God skimmed off as much as was
30. The years since graduation were skimmed quickly –
31. Anointed of the Heavenly God skimmed off as much
32. The pointy missiles skimmed over her head, and there were three thuds as they embedded in the shed wall behind her
33. The pink boat skimmed along for the ride
34. it skimmed the water next to the ducks, the gem landed into a set of wild bushes
35. His fingertips skimmed over the bump Greta had
36. Emily had by then skimmed through his report
37. His eyes skimmed through the diary
38. My shadow skimmed the ground and the people that were outside looked up and pointed
39. into them whereas in the past, I’ve skimmed over
40. skimmed rapidly through the chapter and had a good basic idea of what Lucid
41. Luckily he had just skimmed the top of the hill, only hard enough to break off the tips of his propellers and bring the Anson in for a wheels-up landing, nose down and tail skyward in the wheat field
42. We skimmed through the lists of games saved on the hard
43. She picked up the second one to wear, Suraj stamped on the accelerator, the chapel flew out of her hand, skimmed past Jags' nose and bounced off the drum in the corner
44. Johnson was a secret partner with his attorney, Ed Clark, in Clark’s money laundering business for years that skimmed profit off of government military contracts as a subcontractor to the contracts that went to Texas businesses because of Johnson’s influence (Blood, Money, & Power: How LBJ killed JFK, by Barr McClellan, 2003)
45. Lucky for us, the ocean was relatively calm, and the boat easily skimmed across the dark blue of
46. Wickland carefully skimmed through each of the twenty or so letters for any inference of hostility
47. But, without hesitation he skimmed over the water through the concentrated barrage to drop his torpedo accurately towards the “Gneisenau's” stern
48. That so-called private residence outside of Capetown had been in reality like a European Renaissance castle and had cost tens of millions of credits to build and furnish, with the lot paid with the help of the public funds skimmed off by Zembelo during his tenure as governor of Africa
49. judge quickly skimmed over the names but there must've
50. Pulling the fifth planet from its normal orbit and making it spiral down closer to the red dwarf star, the brown dwarf then skimmed the surface of the red dwarf, ripping huge masses of hot solar material from the red dwarf while itself losing part of its mass in the exchange
