| 1. | "Isn't it time to skim it, my dear" she added, addressing Agafea Mihalovna. - from Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy |
| 2. | The boat did not seem to sink into the water at all, but to skim like an air-bubble upon the surface of the surge. - from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe by Edgar Allan Poe |
| 3. | for moving such a dish of skim milk with so honourable an actio. - from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare |
| 4. | Shoots on the wing, and skims along the sk. - from The Iliad of Homer by Homer |
| 5. | An ape sits beside it, skims it, and watches lest it boil over. - from Faust by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe |
| 6. | I wish to prepare you for the woeful news, but I know it is impossible even now your eye skims over the page to seek the words which are to convey to you the horrible tidings. - from Frankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft (Godwin) Shelley |