Slips
[slɪp]
Examples
- He took from his pocket the various slips of the dancing men. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- The proof was in three long slips. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- The literary style is good, there are only a few trivial slips in spelling, and the appreciation is keen of what would be interesting news and gossip. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- The crisis was perilous; but not without its charm: such as the Indian, perhaps, feels when he slips over the rapid in his canoe. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- We came along past the chained boats in the slips along the quay to where the barman's boat should be. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- This is it on the blue paper, and these slips, as I have explained, are the rough draft. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- I proceed to the arrangement of my slips--to the revision of my slips--to the reading of my slips--addressed emphatically to your private ear. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- Then, between his height and them, he slips in his subordinate,--don't you see? Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- I find, now I look into things a little, Rosy, that it is wonderful what an amount of money slips away in our housekeeping. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- I shall invent a new game; I shall write bits of slang and poetry on slips, and give them to you to separate. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
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