skimmingly

I've been reading your posts skimmingly, as I've been abroad, and only just had a chance to look at them more carefully--thanks for all of them.

Shakespeare Authorship, Part Four: A Few Final Thoughts Bardiac 2008

The cubes moved with an entire absence of vibration; so smoothly and skimmingly, indeed, that had it not been for the sudden wind that had risen when first we had stirred, and that now beat steadily upon our faces, and the cloudy walls streaming by, I would have thought ourselves at rest.

The Metal Monster 2004

She walked quickly and skimmingly about the dark lawns, exalted and humble.

The Judge Rebecca West 1937

Whether sleeping, quarrelling, or playing, whether curious, frightened, or angry, its interest is continuously humorous, but the Adélie penguin in the water is another thing; as it darts to and fro a fathom or two below the surface, as it leaps porpoise-like into the air or swims skimmingly over the rippling surface of a pool, it excites nothing but admiration.

Scott's Last Expedition Volume I Robert Falcon Scott 1890

Away they fly past scattered cottages, swiftly and skimmingly, like eagles on the wing, along the Enfield highway.

Rookwood William Harrison Ainsworth 1843

Yesterday, beside preaching a sermon more than half new, and attending a funeral (out of the society), I read skimmingly more than half Nichol's

Autobiography and Letters of Orville Dewey, D.D. Edited by his Daughter Orville Dewey 1838