Significados de skirt close en inglés

She was stooping, but when she heard his step she stood up, holding her skirt close about her, and waited for his coming.

I sat up and tucked my skirt close around me and laid my cheek on my updrawn knees so I could see his face.

At noon we are skirting close in to the African coast.

The currency is now skirting close to parity with the dollar.

There was the rustling of skirts close to his table.

While skirting close ashore, Mackenzie discovered the banks of the river to be on fire.

At places the canoes skirted close to the wood-fringed shore, and braves landed to shoot wild-fowl.

Savedra kept to the shadows, pulling her skirts close to keep them from snagging on briars.

She caught her skirts close to her body and walked rapidly to the brow of the hill.

Hold your skirts close on the way.

She sat down too, with a sweeping side-long movement of her hips that drew her thin skirts close about her.

"Oh!" screamed the Queen, gathering her skirts close about her ankles.

A little curly strand on her forehead played charmingly in the wind which blew her skirts close around her in fine modelling.

The other owned Weary as temporary commander and galloped off to the left, skirting close to the foothills of the Bear Paws.

The river, as far as the eye can reach, is skirted close to the water by a narrow belt of cotton-wood and other trees.

He patted Satan on the shoulder and swept on at redoubled speed, skirting close to the town, while the posse plunged straight into it.