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Usage examples of skirting.

Leave the Autostrada del Sole at Firenze Est, cross the Arno by the first possible bridge, and head north toward Fiesole, skirting the inner city.

This stairway forked at the top, a small flight leading to the door of an entrance into the cave dwelling, while two or three steps branched outward to a ledge skirting the stone balustrade of the balcony.

They were skirting an overgrown limestone quarry four leagues north from Brous as the sun sank behind the trees on their right.

She passed beneath a pedimented arch and ran the length of the fifty-foot-long garden, skirting around a stone table surrounded by windsor chairs and stone pots of flowering nectarine trees.

Skirting the bleak shores of Patagonia in a single narrow sierra, the Andes enter Chile, rising higher and higher till they culminate in the gigantic porphyritic peak of Aconcagua.

Plateau of Chasms, loomed from the desert, a long ribbon of blue stone running three hundred miles from Algeria into the kingdom of Tripoli, skirting the edge of the Ahaggar Mountains and the lush oases that dotted the southern desert.

Sweet gum and persimmon and water locust, ironwood and redbud and a dozen other species with buttonbush and thorny dewberry and greenbriar skirting their bases.

We had forded the Catawba River and were skirting the northwestern flank of an odd rectangular plateaumaking as rapid a progress as we could, since we were expecting a pursuit of some kind in the absence of an eruptionwhen a terrible earthquake occurred.

Vastitas Borealis, skirting the scarp of the big Lomonsov crater and navigating the rolling dune sea to the mouth of Chasma Boreale.

But the trip over the mountains to Sulaco was another sort of experience, in an old diligencia over impassable roads skirting awful precipices.

They began walking again, skirting the edge of Giftware and cutting through Leather Goods.

You snake through Huanuco in your beaten-up taxi, skirting the city market where eight parakeets are sold in a cage the size of a shoe box and chickens are kept in string netting bags and lean, mangy, hungry, flea-ridden dogs slope around the place looking for shade.

He would return to Albuquerque on a big loop, around the Mesa Prieta, skirting Jemez Pueblo, and down the western side of the Rio Grande to home.

The Commander walked around the room, Longton looked on bemused as the Commander kicked the skirting boards and tapped the floor intermittently.

Our orders are to continue southwest, skirting the American coast to challenge and defeat their newest and best hunter submarines.