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Sentences starting with slip

Slip Cassia into the new sulky, and fetch her round. [6]
Slip number five: "Mr. Crewe is a summer resident, with a house in New York," etc., etc. [9]
Slip number six, "Book of Arguments," paragraph, chapter: "Humphrey Crewe, Defamer of our State. [9]

Sentences ending with slip

I will read the slip. [9]
It was a slip. [13]
Whenever it was possible he gave his nurses and attendants the slip. [10]
Do not let it slip. [7]
Do not let him slip. [10]
Venters felt how foolish it was for him to fear these broken walls; to fear that, after they had endured for thousands of years, the moment of his passing should be the one for them to slip. [13]
He had hewn every beam and king post in it, and set every plate and slip. [9]
Shortly after his arrival Captain Hale distinguished himself by the brilliant exploit of cutting out a British sloop, laden with provisions, from under the guns of the man-of-war "Asia," sixty-four, lying in the East River, and bringing her triumphantly into slip. [4]
Take your time and hold on to him if you slip. [13]
It got darker and darker, and it was a beautiful time to give the crowd the slip; but that big husky had me by the wrist --Hines--and a body might as well try to give Goliar the slip. [5]

Sentences containing slip two or more times

A blue trip slip for an eight-cent fare, A buff trip slip for a six-cent fare, A pink trip slip for a three-cent fare, Punch in the presence of the passenjare! [5]
My head kept humming, "A blue trip slip for an eight-cent fare, a buff trip slip for a six-cent fare," and so on and so on, without peace or respite. [5]
I was already far away with my pitiless, heartbreaking "blue trip slip for an eight-cent fare, buff trip slip for a six-cent fare, pink trip slip for a three-cent fare; punch in the presence of the passenjare. [5]
There--there it is coming on me again: a blue trip slip for an eight-cent fare, a buff trip slip for a--" Thus murmuring faint and fainter, my friend sank into a peaceful trance and forgot his sufferings in a blessed respite. [5]
If I had a way to slip the leash, I'd slip it. [11]

More example sentences with the word slip in them

Then, the night you're ready, fetch the leg a kick, down she goes; slip off your chain, and there you are. [5]
The father and we were each to write a name on a slip of paper and lay it beside the font. [10]
Even when I was in proper position and carefully balanced upon the balls of my feet, there was no comfort in it, on account of my nervous dread that they were going to slip one way or the other in a moment. [5]
Oh, don't stare--it was a slip, and no crime; customs of a life-time can't be dropped in a second. [5]
Weapon number one was a slip of paper with a date and a few words written upon it. [6]
The young culprit wanted to slip past his teacher with a low "good night," but the latter called him, and pointing to the picture, smilingly asked: "Did you paint this? [10]
They can calculate very easily with a slip of paper and a pencil, but not the less is their language but half intelligible as they speak and listen. [6]
As they'd given us the slip, and nothing had come of it, and this was down in the country that he'd been seen, I took no measures about it, and asked no questions--But I can, if you like. [12]
He would slip upon her, you see, under cover of innocent and unimportant questions. [5]
You can't slip up on um en grab um; en how's a body gwyne to hit um wid a rock? [5]
If we get up in the sage we can hide and slip along like coyotes. [13]
The saddle began to slip, and I took him round the neck and laid close to him, and began to pray. [5]
She would try to slip the flowers into his hand, with the money, as a token of her gratitude. [10]
His plan was to slip down to his uncle's private sitting room below, pass into the bedroom, steal the safe key from the old gentleman's clothes, and then go back and rob the safe. [5]
If I was to slip ashore without anybody seeing me, they would know it inside of an hour. [5]
Fate had only to make his foot slip one little inch or decree that a wasp should sting him on the finger to put an end to his existence. [10]
The night promised to be a fair one; so Tom went home with the understanding that if a considerable degree of darkness came on, Huck was to come and "maow," whereupon he would slip out and try the keys. [5]
Our mistress--she'll slip through our hands. [10]
A thought like this happened to slip through my head by accident: How much would make you or me comfortable? [5]
The Professor says there is a little fleshy slip called Santorini's laughing muscle. [6]
He should write them out on a slip of paper and take the judgment of his friends on them. [5]
The reading of the words on the slip of paper of which he had so mysteriously got possession (through Mr. Hamilton Tooting) was sufficient to bring about a disorder that for a full minute--Mr. Speaker Doby found it impossible to quell. [9]
The count remembered the wolf he had let slip and his encounter with Daniel. [2]
Many a man, the victim of a slip or a misstep, has plunged down on of these and met his death. [5]
When Mena saw the twelve princes descending to the ground, he shouted through his hands, using them as a speaking trumpet, and called to Rameri, who was about to slip down the rope they had contrived, the last of them all. [10]
A slip of the tongue would be the most that you would get from me. [5]
She walk past the theatre and, as she go by, she slip on the snow and fall. [11]
The shipper in the little ship It effects with woe sad might; He does not see the rocky slip, He only regards dreaded height. [5]
Then she saw the light mantle slip from Sirona's shoulders, and observed Hermas start and press his hand to his heart. [10]
How was it that while the scissors passed through the beard of a man's face the points did not suddenly slip up and stab the light from helpless eyes? [11]
An' I thought that slip av a lad from the Liffey soide was houlding me hand, and sayin' 'Mother! [11]
While he is taking an enlarged and rational view of the matter before him, he lets his chance slip through his fingers. [6]
The most discouraging symptom to me in our undoubted advance in the comforts and refinements of society is the facility with which men slip back into barbarism, if the artificial and external accidents of their lives are changed. [4]
Then wait, and suffer, till all the mosquitoes in the neighborhood have crawled in under the bar, then slip out quickly, shut them in and sleep peacefully on the floor till morning. [5]
He had no strength to cope with them, he at once saw the futility of crying out, so he played the eel, and tried to slip from the grasp of his captors. [11]
I longed to slip out unseen, and to run away by myself in amongst the hills and dales. [14]
She was a slip of a woman, and crazy on religion. [13]
I saw Lassiter slip a smokin' gun back in a belt. [13]
The smooth piston slides backward and forward as a lady might slip her delicate finger in and out of a ring. [6]
It was half-past six, and we had trusted to slip in unnoticed by any one. [9]
It has been since supposed, with some reason, that this slumber was a sham or feint, as she contrived to slip away unobserved in the dusk of the afternoon. [12]
Then she said she'd forgot her Testament, and left it in the seat at church between two other books, and would I slip out quiet and go there and fetch it to her, and not say nothing to nobody. [5]
The slip you sent me from the May "Study" has delighted Mrs. Clemens and me to the marrow. [5]
Mind what I say--he has given his friends the slip, and persuaded this delicate young creetur all along of her fondness for him to be his guide and travelling companion--where to, he knows no more than the man in the moon. [12]
I said I reckoned I would slip over the river and find out what was going on. [5]
Wasn't that a pretty neck to slip a hangman's noose over? [6]
I took the precaution to have a hanger at my side and to slip one of Cockle's pistols within the band of my breeches. [9]
A slip of paper was handed to the Reverend Doctor on which these words were written:--"The name is Charles Hazard. [6]
Rolls of goods packed in sacking leaned against the chests, inviting a fugitive to slip back of them, and surely no one would suspect the presence of a pair of lovers in the rear of these mountains of hides and bales wrapped in matting. [10]
The husband held one end, his fragile little wife the other, and the gigantic warder was forced to stoop low to keep the rigid form in a horizontal position and not let it slip toward the woman. [10]
Perhaps each lady on taking her seat may find in her napkin a written slip of paper which shall be the guide to her remarks. [4]
His thoughts slip on and off their light rhythmic robes just as the mood takes him, as was shown in the passage I have quoted in prose and in verse. [6]
The Master broke off the sealed end of his little flask, took out a small portion of the fluid on a glass rod, and placed it on a slip of glass in the usual way for a microscopic examination. [6]
The chief officer of the palace, Fray Antonio de Villacastin, seeing Ulrich slip from his horse, hastened to receive the tottering soldier's tidings, and led him to the church. [10]
This Spaniard is not deaf and dumb; you've let that slip without intending it; you can't cover that up now. [5]
The countess let no occasion slip of making humiliating or cruel allusions to Sonya. [2]
I'm entering on my last reform--I know it--yes, and I'll win; but after that, if I ever slip again I'm gone. [5]
Two, or at most three months; they will soon slip away. [10]
I had a mind to slip away, but concluded I wouldn't; I would stand my ground, and confront the villainy, whatever it was. [5]
We started at midnight, in a sullen downpour of warm rain, and went slowly and softly and in dead silence, for we had to slip through the enemy's lines. [5]
What was the meaning of this slip of paper coming to light at this time, after reposing undisturbed so long? [6]
Between you and me, I expect to give Jules the slip before we get there. [11]
The Professor tells me there is a muscular slip, a dependence of the platysma myoides, which is called the risorius Santorini. [6]
Then he made me put out my tongue and laid a slip of blue paper on it, which turned red and scared me a little. [6]
Why, that's the man the Hutchinses let slip through,--the Hutchinses, who own the mills over there. [9]
He detected a look in his friend's face which excited his suspicion, and was about to slip a stiletto into him when Crioni saved himself by explaining that that look was only an expression of supreme and happy astonishment. [5]
There was a little door that led out of the house by the billiard room, Honora remembered, and contrived, after luncheon, to slip away and reach it. [9]
After midnight he'll likely be asleep, and they can slip around through the woods and hunt up his camp fire all the better for the dark, if he's got one. [5]
Standing in the light from the window of the sick man's room he wrote a line in Latin on a slip of paper, begging of Louis Bachelor the mercy of silence, and gave it to Gongi, who whispered that he was surrounded. [11]
I suspect we learn from our dressmakers to shift the costume of our minds, and slip on the new fashions of thinking all the more easily because we have been accustomed to new styles of dressing every season. [6]
Half an hour later, Cynthia gave Mr. Bixby the envelope as he unhitched his horse; and so deftly did Bijah slip it into his pocket, that he must certainly have misjudged its contents. [9]
If he should know that her companion, the Milesian Nanno, whom he had feasted with her on oyster pasties at Canopus after she had given the slip to her handsome young companion was Queen Arsinoe! [10]
The house held its breath while he slit the envelope open and took from it a slip of paper. [5]
A slip of it a couple of feet long and an inch in diameter each way bends in the hand like a half-frozen snake. [4]
The ferry bumped into its slip, the windlasses sang loudly as they took up the chains, the gates folded back, and Honora was forced with the crowd along the bridge-like passage to the right. [9]
All the words in the dictionary seemed to slip out of my grasp, and I foundered. [9]
There...." She placed in her friend's hand a long, narrow slip of paper. [11]
Every night now I used to slip ashore towards ten o'clock at some little village, and buy ten or fifteen cents' worth of meal or bacon or other stuff to eat; and sometimes I lifted a chicken that warn't roosting comfortable, and took him along. [5]
He took out his pocket-book, selected a slip of paper, and laid it on the table before him. [4]
Not to save his life could he have suppressed the hastily conceived distich, or have let slip such a justifiable claim to applause. [10]
He holds up his judicial scales before the world, that all may see; and it all tries to look so fair that a blind person would sometimes fail to see him slip the false weights in. [5]
He had set his heart on Jim, and what Jim could do and would do by and by in the vast financial concerns he controlled, when he was ready to slip out and down; but Jim had disappointed him beyond calculation. [11]
I had answered him on all points freely and gladly; yet, meanwhile, I had been on my guard not to let slip any heedless speech, deeming it a precious favor to stand well in the opinion of so noble and learned a gentleman. [10]
Then I whispered her to slip out of the place, and say nothing of what had happened. [5]
When I begged her to slip away with me among the currant bushes she whispered:--"I can't, Hugh. [9]
Eighteen years old he was, only eighteen-- just a straight slip of a lad from Malahide. [11]
As often as he passed the cave, and observed the glimmer of light that came from her room, he felt prompted and urged to slip in, and to gaze on her once more. [10]
Then Tom said he hadn't got candles enough, and he would slip in the kitchen and get some more. [5]
No one yet has ever heard a word of it from me; not even Dorothea, who often blamed me when I let slip a hard word against my husband. [10]
Then Hume rose, handed the slip of paper to Sergeant Gosse, and said: "Attend to that at once, Gosse. [11]
If a man had an enemy in those old days, the cleverest thing he could do was to slip a note for the Council of Three into the Lion's mouth, saying "This man is plotting against the Government. [5]
When he had gone away, Margaret ran over to my wife, bringing in her hand a slip of paper. [4]
I took it from the shelves, and, as I did so, an old slip of paper fell out and fluttered to the floor. [6]
I would not for the world insinuate that he wishes she would slip and twist her foot a little,--just a little, you know, but so that it would have to be laid on a pillow in a chair, and inspected, and bandaged, and delicately manipulated. [6]
Along the lower edge of each strip was pasted a slip of white paper. [5]
He saw the dragoons near and that they were galloping in disorder; he knew they could not withstand an attack--knew there was only that moment and that if he let it slip it would not return. [2]
When he had disappeared, sitting down, she drew from her breast a slip of paper, unfolded it, and laid it on her knee. [11]
I let the day slip away without doing anything at all. [5]
One in the clothing-business, who, there is reason to suspect, may have inherited, by descent, the great poet's impressible temperament, let a customer slip through his fingers one day without fitting him with a new garment. [6]
And there's Jim chained by one leg, with a ten-foot chain, to the leg of his bed: why, all you got to do is to lift up the bedstead and slip off the chain. [5]

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