Slid

Examples

• It slid from its balance, owing to the change in its course against the currents of air. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• In breathless expectancy I waited, when finally the great door moved softly toward me and slid quietly to one side. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
• The sound of a drawer cautiously slid out struck my ear; stepping a little to one side, my vision took a free range, unimpeded by falling curtains. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• Then again, like a shadow, she slid towards the kitchen. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• He slid forward quite unconscious, over Gerald, and Gerald did not notice. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• This was the way in which Rosamond and Lydgate slid gracefully into ease, and made their intercourse lively again. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• He felt the sweat that came from under his armpits and slid down between his arm and his side and he said to himself, So you are scared, eh? Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• There were stretchers lifted and slid into the slings above. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
• Rinaldi took the note, folded it without rising from the bed and slid it in his breeches pocket. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
• The frame or chase of type was fixed on this table, and when inked and with the paper laid in place, was slid under the platen, which was a smooth planed board. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• At last she slid to her father's side. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• The avalanche had shaken and slid a little forward, but it did not yet crash down. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• The green girl slid from her mighty mount and ran toward me. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• Now the clip was heavy again in his hand and he slid it back into the submachine gun and felt it click home. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• The path led straight up a rugged sweep of loose chunks of pumice-stone, and for about every two steps forward we took, we slid back one. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• It slid before the Lime Rock, blotted out Ida Lewis's little house, and passed across the turret in which the light was hung. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
• The attendant received the card, watched his opportunity for sliding down, slid down, and so it ended. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• Perhaps Casaubon, in his hatred and jealousy, had been insisting to Dorothea that Will had slid below her socially. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• You think all existence lapses in as quiet a flow as that in which your youth has hitherto slid away. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• His eyes glanced sideways at Andreu Nin, slid over him, and went back to Gomez. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• Then the boy grasped the strap and slid down to Xodar's side. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• He slid over behind the rocks to where Robert Jordan was crouched beside the brush-shielded automatic rifle. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• Then, feeling each cartridge in the dark and turning it in his fingers, he pressed and slid them one at a time back into the clip. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• While Eustacia looked on from this distance the boy's form visibly started--he slid down the bank and ran across towards the white gate. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.

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