The fact is, we have long passed the days when "rinking" was a novelty on the stage or off it. ❋ Various (N/A)
Not surprisingly, long after the fad for rinking (roller skating) was introduced to England and America, it became a craze in Australia – and it was noted that there was no set hour for the fashionable to use the rinking rings; a maid could sail past her employer and even link arms with the daughter of the house. ❋ Unknown (2009)
Note that everybody from our favorite pinhead to our favorite Viking, er, skullbanging docoction-rinking pizza delivery lady has managed to see through your pitiful charade. ❋ Unknown (2006)
'I thought you said you were tired out, and I thought, too, that the rink was specially built to prevent you from rinking here,' observed the latter, who was trying, with some difficulty, to keep her balance and her dignity during this peculiar mode of progress. ❋ May Baldwin (N/A)
That is better than rinking in your parquet hall, Mr Clay, 'cried Horatia, clapping her hands. ❋ May Baldwin (N/A)
'Yes, I'm here; and now, as I can't skate, and you don't know any one here yet, suppose we go to those raised seats there; we shall hear the band, and, I can tell you, our Ousebank band is not to be despised, and we shall see the people rinking, and if you see any one you particularly want to know we'll go down and ask Sarah to introduce her. ❋ May Baldwin (N/A)
When they had made several rounds, Horatia stopped near the two tall girls who had come in first, and they immediately complimented her on her rinking. ❋ May Baldwin (N/A)
Horatia took Sarah's arm and began dancing along the polished surface with a rinking movement. ❋ May Baldwin (N/A)
She spoke so vehemently that Horatia stopped her rinking and looked at her friend in surprise. ❋ May Baldwin (N/A)
Mrs Clay sat on the raised stand, and watched the two as they skated round and round, doing all sorts of figures, and performing rinking feats for her special benefit, as she was well aware. ❋ May Baldwin (N/A)
The nearer the time came the less she liked the idea of this rinking-party, for though she managed to get on with Mr Clay, she felt that seventy people of that kind would be more than she could bear. ❋ May Baldwin (N/A)
'It's the very thing for rinking, and so is this boa. ❋ May Baldwin (N/A)
Now, skating I can understand; it's healthy exercise, and you might make use of it in cold countries; but rinking -- what's the use on't? ' ❋ May Baldwin (N/A)
Who knows but to-morrow may be summer again, and then it'll be too hot for rinking. ❋ May Baldwin (N/A)
He was good at every thing, from tracking a moose or caribou, on through all the gamut of rinking, skating, ice-boating, and tobogganing, up to the lightest accomplishments of the drawing-room. ❋ James De Mille (N/A)
Far more serious was it when, in the natural trend of time, they became enamoured of rinking and archery and galloping along the Brighton Parade. ❋ Max Beerbohm (1914)
They have been rinking in my head all night, those last lines, those dreadful lines. ❋ George De Horne Vaizey (1887)
On Boxing Day, Lavender excused herself from joining a rinking party, and lay curled up on a sofa reading a Christmas number. ❋ George De Horne Vaizey (1887)
She was hoping that Dan would never grow "gnarled" towards herself, longing for him to speak and promise that he would not, but he still remained silent, and presently the door burst open, the rinking party appeared on the threshold, and the opportunity for quiet conclave was over. ❋ George De Horne Vaizey (1887)
Before breakfast she had been rinking for an hour, with as likely as not a waltz or two thrown in. ❋ Archibald Forbes (1869)
