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Updated: May 17, 2025
Most persons skate with too heavy clothes. The quick movements of the limbs in the changing evolutions of this pastime though the practised skater is unconscious of much muscular effort quicken the circulation enough to increase palpably the animal heat and produce a very sensible perspiration.
"Then why couldn't you take me in with you?" she asked, with a quiet-toned solemnity. She had the sensations of a skater on treacherously thin ice, as she watched the slow, cautious scrutiny of his unbetraying face. But now, for some reason, she knew neither fear nor hesitation. "And what if we did?" he parried temporizingly. "Well, what if we did? men and women have worked together before this!"
Then, very tactfully, he put Martha through a little examination, which had nothing in common with the examinations of the Sorbonne or the Hôtel de Ville. "Did she skate?" That's what he wanted to know first! He was himself a very distinguished skater. He needed a sport-loving wife. She makes figures-of-eight. And who swims well, too like a fish!" She skated, she swam, she was sport-loving.
Thoreau, one of the most devoted admirers of nature, says in his "Walden," that, "The first ice is especially interesting, being hard, dark, and transparent, and affords the best opportunity that ever offers for examining the bottom, where it is shallow; for you can lie at your length on ice only an inch thick, like a skater insect on the surface of the water, and study the bottom at your leisure, only two or three inches distant, like a picture behind a glass."
Alick, very sorry, moist-eyed from disappointment, but not caring to stand there and get chilled for our good Alick was a little afraid of cold, after the manner of mothers' sons in general skated off again to keep up his circulation, his knees bent, his chin forward, his arms swinging as balance-weights to his long body, the ends of his white woolen comforter flying behind him, and his legs running anywhere, the clumsiest and most ungraceful skater on the Broad.
Ellsworth, as Ruth came back to the meeting-place after her comfortable spin with Joe. "Here's Jack waiting to take you out as soon as you are rested, and I'll get Joe to help me find my husband." Jack was a fine skater, and Ruth felt so encouraged by her last attempt that she really enjoyed her skate with him and began to long to do something by herself.
Then he went back to his book and began reading with an unconscious sigh which made his mother and father look at each other with troubled eyes. As they neared the pond with its twinkling bonfires, it seemed to Ruth there would be small chance for an inexperienced skater in the midst of the many dark figures which were gliding in every direction.
The contestants do not attempt figures of their own invention but strive to excel in the so-called "compulsory" figures. A fancy skater can practise from diagrams and directions just as one might practise moves in a game of chess. In printed directions for fancy skating the following abbreviations are used for the strokes: R right L left F forward B backward O outside I inside
At this elevation the snow had formed a crust, over which the single Chinaman a lithe young figure skimmed like a skater, while Masterton's horse crashed though it into unexpected depths. Again, the runner could deviate by a shorter cut, while the horseman was condemned to the one half obliterated trail.
They spoke of his talents as a skater; and their praise, in all their usual haunts, had such an effect, that, in the course of a few days, prodigious crowds of the fashionable world, and of all descriptions of people, assembled to see the American skater.
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