skatings

Its weathers, its changing seasons, its severe frosts, with Sunday skatings on the dangerous canals, St. - Ouen and De l'Ourcq; its genial spring, all convolvulus and gobéas, and early almond blossom and later horse-chestnut spikes, and more lime and syringa than ever; its warm soft summer and the ever-delightful school of notation by the Isle of Swans.

The Martian George Du Maurier 1865

Then were the merry-making parties, and perhaps the skatings and sleigh-rides, for the freezing weather came before the governor's proclamation in many parts of New England.

Being a Boy Charles Dudley Warner 1864

Then were the merry-making parties, and perhaps the skatings and sleigh-rides, for the freezing weather came before the governor's proclamation in many parts of New England.

The Complete Project Gutenberg Writings of Charles Dudley Warner Charles Dudley Warner 1864