In some places the skirting had come away from the floor.

Nicholas got up and, skirting the conversation pit, went back to the library.

Both of us talking shop, skirting the personal as if it were a dead animal in the middle of the road.

It is her filthy proposal that she has produced with the Council by skirting all of the rules.

It spun across the floorboards and collided with the skirting.

The tables are draped in black skirting, and the room softened with potted plants.

Challenger looked up at the cornice and round at the skirting.

Again, Hersh gets at the skirting of the line between military and intelligence operations:

Skirting the Limits This was the second mayoral election under the 1988 campaign finance law.

The raised roads with no skirting has posed fatal accident threats to the pedestrians.

Moving in the stream made us all nervous, but it was quieter and quicker than skirting it.

Stella admired the woman's euphemistic skirting of brutal fact.

Innocent pranks, he told about-things that boys would do, skirting the edge of trouble but meaning no real harm.

He was just in time to see Stugley's boots disappearing under the ragged board skirting of the outhouse wall.

And through it all, Sisko noted, there was the careful, deliberate skirting of the elephant in their midst: himself.

It is not certain to what extent the directives will be put into effect, and in the past students have proven adept at skirting the rules.

Without thinking I had started to climb, skirting the rocks and the dark patches of scrub and thorn bush.

A scar ran from her chin into her scalp, skirting her left eye by very little.

"Israel is not pleased with the skirting of the Syrian involvement in terrorism," the official said, speaking on condition that he not be identified.

The only other evidence of people were fishing boats, skirting the shore at dawn but farther out to sea for the remainder of the day.

The car is black, with silver and red trim on the lower-body skirting, intended to suggest the "ground effects" of a racecar.

The only glow that reached the unlighted interior was from the illumination of the city which the car was skirting.

It was a plotted skirting of the truth, Spock knew, but far enough from an actual lie that he felt comfortable saying it.

The profiled girth skirting the building passes across the ends of the niches and the window openings.

A traditional red riding jacket, complete with a black velvet collar, became an elegant gown with white cotton skirting.

One of the women called to him and held out a skirt.

The only way you could tell was by the skirt.

They found the husband dead, and the wife with blood on her skirt.

She turned around and put one hand on her skirt.

Only then did she let her skirt fall back into place.

"I think the whole world has been looking up my skirt recently!"

Which did not work, because the skirt was simply too short.

I know he has a good view up her skirt.

But he had to run like a woman in a long skirt.

I know a few men who have had their hand up her skirt.

They sat across the room from each other, and he looked up her skirt.

The white skirt might as well not have been there.

I knew that the next thing to go would be the skirt.

She then reached over to the side of her skirt.

"Will you let anyone I bring home look up your skirt?"

I moved to the side and reached for her skirt.

I was trying to imagine how you would look in a skirt.

The effect was of a short skirt open at the sides.

Especially if you've got your hand this high up a woman's skirt, he thought.

She had one hand inside her skirt and was very close to the window watching.

She appeared to be doing something under the other's skirt.

Paul said that I looked even better without the skirt.

Just think how easy it would be to give a show in that skirt.

The way she's holding up her bit of a skirt.

She reached for her skirt a few times, to feel how far down it did not go.

But states are skirting the law in a range of ways.

They skirted it and came up onto the road once more.

It then goes back north and skirts the town of Brush.

A moment later they were skirting the west side of the hotel.

Seeing the way clear, he skirted around to the other side.

He skirted the fire and gave it to the old man.

I skirted around them, but one of the boys shot to my side.

Once again they were skirting the French part, and he was alone with his plan.

As if we were skirting around the edge of what he really wanted to know.

The highway skirts a secret military test site called Area 51.

He took her to a road which skirted the forest.

But he had been skirting what lay between them for years.

No wonder he skirts such a difficult issue when his own son was one of those accused!

"I think she skirted a little bit around the issue," he said.

Asked whether his wife would play the role of first lady, he skirted the question.

Long skirts this season are more relaxed than any in recent memory.

She'd skirted that truth, but it had never left her.

The scene changes to an open country skirted with trees.

He was skirting the mountain, to reach the south side.

Because this is not something new, like skirting a black hole.

He started toward the next in line, carefully skirting this one.

None moved but the page, who went toward him skirting the wall.

He skirted them and continued on down to his office with a little more purpose.

I have spoken out against parts of the report because it skirts around this very real problem.

Just skirting around the subject with V had been enough.