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skipping

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skipping
the act of jumping over a rope that is held and swung either by the person jumping or by two other people, as a game or for exercise


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The interest and curiosity in Mistress Mary's face delighted her, and she went on skipping and counted as she skipped until she had reached a hundred.
Today I went hopping and skipping to the office, for my heart was under your influence, and my soul was keeping holiday, as it were.
Walking among the sleeping birds in the hedges, watching the skipping rabbits on a moonlit warren, or standing under a pheasant-laden bough, she looked upon herself as a figure of Guilt intruding into the haunts of Innocence.
 
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