In the bedrooms of those days, a narrow slip of carpet round the bed was the maximum of woollen integument allowed for protecting the feet of the midnight wanderer from his couch; and, in the staircases of the fairest mansions, a like slip meandered down the centre of the flight of steps.

'Trip round an' slip th' noose over 'is horns.'

If the apparent slip be zero, the real slip is the speed of the wake, and if the apparent slip be negative, the real slip is less than the speed of the wake.

Didn't I tell youdidn't I tell you to practise?" Even as Leon Kantor put pen to this princely document, Francis Ferdinand of Austria, the assassin's bullet true, lay dead in state, and let slip were the dogs of war.

It will thus be seen that, finally, the block slip will be determined by the difference in curvature of arcs which curve in the same direction, whether the engine be running forward or backward; whereas in the common modes of suspension the block slip in one direction is substantially the half sum of the curvatures of two arcs curving in opposite directions.

"The slip marked by me as No. 2 is a counterfeit.

60 Yon tawny slip is Libya's sands That silver thread the river Dnieper; And look, where clothed in brightest green Is a sweet Isle, of isles the Queen; Ye fairies, from all evil keep her!

The laundress' slip of the tongue, after denying that she understood, was evidence in itself of her deliberate duplicity.

Every slip, every fall, every return to selfishness is a lesson learned, an experience gained, from which a golden grain of wisdom is extracted, helping the striver toward the accomplishment of his lofty object.

The time is coming when each true ballot-slip shall be a prayer.

If the apparent slip be zero, the real slip is the speed of the wake, and if the apparent slip be negative, the real slip is less than the speed of the wake.

And that slip of a laass, when John Greatorex coom courtin', she turned 'im. 'E was that soft wi' laasses.

Slips to the right of O are positive apparent slips, slips to the left are negative apparent slips.

Can this sad, sallow slip of a girl be the beaming, shapely, British matron I contemplated with so innocently pleased an eye half an hour ago?

The folded slip was a check for three hundred dollars made payable to Madeline Taylor and signed with Ted Holiday's name.

"'E's slipping 'is cable," he said, slowly.

Experience proved that considerable slips and efficient screws were companions.

Our path hung on the imminent side of a chasm so steep that one slip might have been destruction to both horse and rider.

Slip, as an indication of the efficiency of the screw, is not only an interesting subject, but it is often one of importance.