...Just as we were approaching the lake, we caught sight through the bushes of a canoe paddled by a single rower skimming lightly over the surface towards us... 
W.H.G. Kingston 「The Two Supercargoes」
...As sheleaped forward two strong wings sprouted from her shoulders, and beforeshe knew it she found herself skimming lightly as a bird over the water...
Abbie Farwell Brown 「The Curious Book of Birds」
...The call of the most widely-distributed of the Indiangoatsuckers—Caprimulgus asiaticus, the common Indiannightjar—is like unto the sound made by a stone skimming over ice...
Douglas Dewar 「A Bird Calendar for Northern India」
...Whenyou approached, the bird would keep her placetill you had begun to stir the branches, whenshe would start out, and, just skimming theground, make a bright brown line to the nearfence and bushes...
John Burroughs 「Bird Stories from Burroughs」
...I repeat my laborious expedition to the Bois des Issards over and over again; and each time I see the males as assiduous as ever in skimming over the ground...
J. Henri Fabre 「More Hunting Wasps」
...We had taken elevationto cross the Stillwater Mountains andwere skimming low over them, myplane trailing the T...
Various 「Astounding Stories of Super-Science, March 1930」
...In answerto a thought command, Turganand Damis climbed upon it and inan instant they were skimming athigh speed over the ground...
Sterner St. Paul Meek 「Giants on the Earth」
...Peter, and the number of winged, fresh-water insects skimming the surface of that bay, are the grounds to which I allude...
Matthew Flinders 「A Voyage to Terra Australis」
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