419 collocations for slip

"It's a jest that has cost him dear," answered the other, as he watched his brother search the girl's clothes and then slip his murderous hands beneath her pillow.

" Dick cleverly slipped his arm about her waist and set the basket endwise for her to sit on.

"And can he be said to be wise who, with a liking for taking part in the public service, is constantly letting slip his opportunities?" "He cannot," was the reply again.

" "Of slipping the cable!" cried the general, looking up suddenly.

So still he tries, and still he fails; still searching long he lingers; And every time the tricksy things go slipping thro' his fingers.

It had slipped my mind his uncle was dead...." "I learned this morning Mrs. Haggage was to lecture in Louisville on the sixteenth.

I think I have confided that to you beforebut you are a brick, made of the best straw in the field of life, and you shall be a general one of these daysyour shrill voice shall let slip the dogs of war and cry havoc to the enemy.

No, you lift up the cover, and slip the paper in, and let the cover fall on it again.

"Then you can place the facts before me without the slightest hesitation," he said, going to the door and slipping the bolt into its socket.

So the Sergeant, very clumsily, perhaps, because he had but the one hand, slipped the ring upon the finger in question.

Accordingly, I slipped the key of the wardrobe once more into my pocket and went downstairs.

"I would be landed quickly at the water-gate of the Doge's palace," she said, slipping a piece of silver into the hand of the boatman.

And, hastily slipping the rope from his neck, he hurries to his friend's side.

"This is who?" The name had brought her instantly into complete wakefulness; she was out of the bed, had slipped her feet into her slippers and whipped a dressing gown around her while she was asking the question.

" "Dear, dear, it quite slipped my memory, Isabella.

It was when they took leave that she saw the Countess slip a note into her lord's fingers.

They have slipped a noose around his feet, six horses are brought in, And away they drag Harpado with a loud and joyful din. Now stoop thee, lady, from thy stand, and the ring of price bestow Upon Gazul of Algava, that hath laid Harpado low.

Indeed, I had some difficulty in slipping the promised coin into his hand at a moment when his master was not looking.

Morse slipped the hunting-knife back into its case.

Whaley slipped a revolver from his belt to the right-hand pocket of his fur coat.

Stroking his beard thoughtfully, therefore, he seated himself upon a convenient wooden chest, while Blossy slipped her old love-letter in and out of the envelop, with that essentially feminine manner of weighing and considering.

He has paid me marked attentions in the past; but nowhe" "Wants to slip the leash.

Finally I locked the note-books, open as they were, in the writing-table drawer, and slipping the envelope into my pocket, set out for the Temple.

He went to the shed, slipped his legs into the worn leather chaps, took saddle, bridle, blanket and rope and returned to the corral.

Prisoners, whom we have allowed to be taken, have let slip words that will lead the British to think our fleet will slip from its base and approach England from the south.

419 collocations for  slip