Slipped

Examples

• A breakfast-room adjoined the drawing-room, I slipped in there. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• With perfect coolness Holmes slipped across to the safe, filled his two arms with bundles of letters, and poured them all into the fire. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• She blew long enough to show that the sand had all slipped through. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• My trusty dog watched the sheep as I slipped away to the rendezvous of my comrades, and thence to the accomplishment of our schemes. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• He had slipped insensibly into the use of her Christian name, and she had never found the right moment to correct him. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• He slipped off his worn down-trodden shoes, and cast himself heavily, all wet as he was, upon the bed. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• For once I must, was the answer; and if I had not slipped aside and kept out of his way, he would have compelled me to this second performance. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• Holmes had slipped away, but he came back in a few minutes. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
• Accordingly, Mr Venus slipped past Mr Wegg and towed him down. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• They are put together with a double-lapped spiral seam to give expansion-resisting qualities, and as an additional precaution small metal rings are slipped on the outside. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• Slipped on the smooth coating --I almost had him. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• The wayfarer smoked his pipe out, put it in his breast, slipped off his great wooden shoes, and lay down on his back on the heap of stones. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
• Gradually I slipped from the chair and lay on the floor. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• Yes, coming down-hill; it slipped on some ice. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• He was at Larcher's sale, but I knew nothing of him then--he slipped through my fingers--was after Bulstrode, no doubt. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• Robert Jordan slipped through between the double rope of the corral and slapped the buckskin on the haunch. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• If a soft iron nail (Fig. 212) or its equivalent is slipped within the coil, the lifting and attractive power of the coil is increased, and comparatively heavy weights can be lifted. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• As I passed his pew on the way out I dropped my bouquet over to him, and he slipped the note into my hand when he returned me the flowers. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
• On the way back to the boat my horse's feet slipped from under him, and he fell with my leg under his body. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• There was a general rush to the carriages, and Mr. Huskisson, in trying to enter his carriage, slipped backwards and fell upon the rails. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
• Then her arms slipped from about my waist and she was gone. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• Did an elderly gentleman essay to stop the progress of the ball, it rolled between his legs or slipped between his fingers. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• I got my hat and coat in the hall, and slipped out of the house without meeting any one. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• At length she slipped from her own bed and came over to him. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• Then I set the lever at high speed and as the blacks came yelling upon us I slipped from the craft's deck and with drawn long-sword met the attack. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• He has been laid up with a hack, and once he slipped his knee-cap, but that was nothing. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• It has slipped in somehow. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• He put the pistol in its holster on his belt and slipped the knot down on the lanyard and passed the ioop over his head. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• Old Scholey ran in at breakfast-time, to say she had slipped her moorings and was coming out, I jumped up, and made but two steps to the platform. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
• To many persons this Egdon was a place which had slipped out of its century generations ago, to intrude as an uncouth object into this. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.

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