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Sentences ending with slippery

The descent, however, was made easy by the fact that it rained, and every footstep was yielding and slippery. [4]
The descent to Kandersteg is very rapid, and in a rain slippery. [4]
The marble floor is green and damp and slippery. [4]

More example sentences with the word slippery in them

Tubs were filled with sand, for blood is slippery upon the boards. [9]
Clothes, saddles, reins, were all wet, slippery, and sodden, like the ground and the fallen leaves that strewed the road. [2]
The huge round waves of ice were slippery and difficult to climb, and the chances of tripping and sliding down them and darting into a crevice were too many to be comfortable. [5]
To the Highlands, to the Lakes, in short excursions; to Glasgow, seen to disadvantage under gray skies and with slippery pavements. [6]
Occasionally it was safest to dismount and lead them up slippery ascents; but this was also dangerous, for it was difficult to keep them from treading on our heels, in their frantic flounderings, in the steep, wet, narrow, brier-grown path. [4]
The crash and reverberation of the thunder did not trouble us so much as the swish of the wet branches in our faces and the horrible road, with its mud, tripping roots, loose stones, and slippery rocks. [4]
The shower soon passed, and I continued my journey, creeping over the slippery rocks, and continuing to show my confidence in the unresponsive trout. [4]
From this platform one looks down the narrow, slippery stairs that are lost in the boiling mist, and wonders at the daring that built these steps down into that hell, and carried the frail walk of planks over the bowlders outside the fall. [4]
Long we stood on the slippery edge of it, gazing down at the tangled wire and litter of battle that strewed the bottom, while the rain fell pitilessly. [9]
Surely there is not another language that is so slipshod and systemless, and so slippery and elusive to the grasp. [5]
The descent was more uncomfortable than the ascent, and we were compelled a good deal of the way to lead the jaded horses down the slippery rocks. [4]
And at this moment I discovered that the bridge had ceased, and we must trust for a foothold to the slippery and precipitous rocks. [5]
Precious minutes were lost in accomplishing this circuitous descent, and then they found the stepping-stones under water, and the sea-weed swishing about the slippery rocks with the incoming tide. [4]
Between the Lower Lake and the settlements is an extensive forest, traversed by a cart-path, admirably constructed of loose stones, roots of trees, decayed logs, slippery rocks, and mud. [4]
He could touch its smooth and slippery surface with his hand. [12]
One character in it was a chief of Thugs--"Feringhea"--a mysterious and terrible Indian who was as slippery and sly as a serpent, and as deadly; and he stirred up the Thug interest once more. [5]
Dolokhov who was in the midst of the crowd forced his way to the edge of the dam, throwing two soldiers off their feet, and ran onto the slippery ice that covered the millpool. [2]
Do you know I sometimes think our little entomological neighbor is doing a sounder business than we people that make books about ourselves and our slippery abstractions? [6]
Looking back now, I see him, with his sabre cutting right and left, as he drove his horse at one grenadier, who slipped and fell on the slippery ground, while the horse rode on him, battering him. [11]
The look on his face, and the tone of his cold speech, had instantly swept them all away, like a tea-set sliding in a single crash from a slippery tray. [6]
Nurse Byloe let herself drop into a flaccid squab chair with one of those soft cushions, filled with slippery feathers, which feel so fearfully like a very young infant, or a nest of little kittens, as they flatten under the subsiding person. [6]
No wonder he had been able to carry her miles and pack her up that slippery ladder of stone. [13]
When I had got warmed up sufficiently to prepare me for a still warmer temperature, they took me where it was--into a marble room, wet, slippery and steamy, and laid me out on a raised platform in the centre. [5]
She laughed in glee as she ran her little hands down the slippery, shiny surface of Lassiter's leather chaps. [13]
Even as she did so, he jumped behind the tree, and clasped it, else on the slippery place he would have gone over with her. [11]
I was then conducted down stairs into the wet, slippery court, and the first things that attracted my attention were my heels. [5]
I was so certain of this that I quickened my pace and got up with alacrity every time I tumbled down amid the slippery leaves and catching roots, and hurried on. [4]
I was hungry as a circus tiger--did you ever eat slippery elm bark?--yes, I was as bad as that. [11]
It was muggy and wet--characteristic of that winter--as Stephen pushed through the drays on the slippery levee to the landing. [9]
The chilly parlor and the slippery hair-cloth seat take the life out of the warmest welcome. [6]
The way was also exceedingly steep in places, and what with roots, and logs, and slippery rocks and stones, it was a desperate climb for the horses. [4]
A draught of air rushed through this hall, and in stormy weather switched the water all over the floor, now robbed of its mosaics, and covered, wherever the foot could tread, with a thin, dark green, damp and slippery coating of mossy plants and slime. [10]
As they passed a slippery and dangerous place, where was one strong solitary tree, she suddenly threw a noose over him, drew it fast and sprang far out over the precipice into the air. [11]
One horse had a heavy fall on the slippery rocks, and the others had narrow escapes. [5]

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