181 collocations for slid

" "Good-night, Milt," said Mrs. Coblenz, a coating of husk over her own voice and sliding her hand out from beneath, to top his.

Slowly the stranger slid his foot from the doorsill to the doorstep; slowly, very slowly, his keenly twinkling black gaze travelled over the girl from her face to her feet and up again to finally fasten upon and hold as with a tangible grip her angry blue eyes.

" With the lantern held before me, its faint light barely piercing the intense darkness, I stood on the first step leading down into the cabin, and slid the door back into place behind me.

" He slid his arm, all for ingratiating, back into hers.

His narrowed, covetous eyes held her while one hand behind his back slid the bolt into place.

The train left an hour later and, as we lunched, we passed through the Mont Cenis tunnel and slid rapidly downwards through Alpine valleys, charming enough but less beautiful than those on the French side of the frontier.

" The Colonel slid in place the heavy wooden bar that had never before been requisitioned to secure the door, and he came and stood in the middle of the cabin, where he could let out all his inches.

As the avalanche slides Down Alpine slopes, precipitous, cold and dark, Unpitying and unwrathful, grinds and crushes

These valves can be shown by letting the forearm hang down, and sliding the finger upwards over the veins (Fig. 73).

If you like to slide down-hill you've got to pull up your sled.

He pushed the corners, tried sliding the panel in every direction, bounced the square with his fingers, all with no result.

© 26Oct45; AA496672. Carl Fischer, Inc. (PWH); 12Jan73; R542982. Modern universal method for the baritone and slide trombone.

"The escaping person," Henshaw said, "must have slid down the doubled rope which had been passed through the staple of the window, and then when the ground was reached have pulled it away, coiled it up, carried it to the lake, and thrown it in.

Miss Lydia slid the letter beneath a fold of her dress.

" He slid out his watch, pushing back.

As yet the mass of slipping and sliding earth was falling into the waters of the Canal some distance from the moored tug.

" It required my utmost effort to accomplish this, yet I succeeded in sliding the heavy covering back inch by inch, until it fell finally into place.

Upstairs I tumbled, resolved to get upon the roof and slide down the lightning-rod, or else jump from a window.

He used to climb to the top of the tank and slide down the slippery glass as though it were a montagne russe.

Bows of gray old Tutors stand Ranged like rocks above the sand; Rolling beneath them, soft and green, Breaks the tide of bright sixteen, One wave, two waves, three waves, four, Sliding up the sparkling floor; Then it ebbs to flow no more, Wandering off from shore to shore With its freight of golden ore!

" By the time that they had reached the other end of the ship, the pace had rapidly diminished almost to motionlessness; and as soon as Monsignor could attend again, he perceived that there was sliding at a footpace past their starboard side the edge of the huge platform that he had seen just now half a mile away.

" Oliver watched tears slide down his mother's cheeks.

Having found nothing in Swing's warbags save his friend's personal belongings, Racey slid the knife up his sleeve and went downstairs to breakfast.

The iron bars of this portcullis or sliding gate are very thick and heavy, and have sharp points below.

Go for it, he told himself, and slid the card into the lock.

181 collocations for  slid