Sometimes there would be a distant rushing sound, a snow-slide thousands of feet above their heads on the mountain.

A snow-slide caught him and he left his horse buried, struggling out himself from the cold smother like a maimed insect to lie for hours by the road till breath and life came back to him.

For in snow-shoe walking the feet must be lifted straight up and then carried forward before they are planted, and any attempt to slide them forward makes a woeful tangle; to try to lift the ski off the ground, however, is to invite ridiculous distress, and the whole art of scooting on the ski is in the long, sliding motion.

The farmer poured the sour milk down the slide, where it ran into the trough, and the little pigs began to eat.

But in this and other points he had found it better to let things slide rather than throw the whole place out of gear for a trifle.

Of simple instruments, for looking at one slide at a time, Smith and Beck's is the most perfect we have seen, but the most expensive.

Now let me tell you right here that a valve (I mean the ordinary slide valve, such as is used on traction and portable engines), is one of the simplest parts of an engine, and you are not to lose any sleep about it, so be patient until I am ready to introduce you to this part of your work.

When poor Paul had spelt out number two, he found he had no idea of number one, fragments whereof obtruded themselves into number three, which slided into number four, which grafted itself on to number two.

He denied that there existed any necessity to disturb the working of the system, it would have gradually slided into absolute freedom if they were permitted to regulate their own affairs, but the government, or rather, the people of England, had forced on the predicament in which they were placed.

The apprenticeship had been forced upon the country as a part and parcel of the planters' compensationit had been working well, and would insensibly have slided into a state of absolute freedom, had the masters been left alone to themselves.

He denied that there existed any necessity to disturb the working of the system, it would have gradually slided into absolute freedom if they were permitted to regulate their own affairs, but the government, or rather, the people of England, had forced on the predicament in which they were placed.

The apprenticeship had been forced upon the country as a part and parcel of the planters' compensationit had been working well, and would insensibly have slided into a state of absolute freedom, had the masters been left alone to themselves.

Mr. Falkland, however, slided in a graceful and unaffected manner into the conversation already begun; and the animated ingenuousness of his manner was such, as might for the time have disarmed the devil of his malice.

"A slide of rock has fallen over the mouth of the tunnel," he said, forcing himself to speak as if it meant little or nothing.

" "A slide of rock," she repeated after him dumbly.

The dingui slided away from the ship with a very easy movement.

W. Allen acknowledges freezed and slided; and, like Webster, prefers hove to hoven: but the latter justly prefers heaved to both.

: "The supple kinsman slided to the helm."New

"The rogues slided me into the river.

"And the sand slided from beneath my feet.

Slide, slid or slided, sliding, slidden, slid, or slided.

Slide, slid or slided, sliding, slidden, slid, or slided.

Thus the preposition from, being itself adapted to the ideas of motion and separation, easily coincides with any preposition of place, to express this sort of relation; the terms however have a limited application, being used only between a verb and a noun, because the relation itself is between motion and the place of its beginning: as, "The sand slided from beneath my feet."Dr.

6. Write the irregular participles which are commonly preferred to the following regular ones: abided, bended, builded, bursted, catched, creeped, dealed, digged, dwelled, freezed, grinded, knitted, layed, meaned, payed, reaved, slided, speeded, splitted, stringed, sweeped, throwed, weaved, weeped, winded. EXERCISE VIII.ADVERBS, &c. 1.

"She slided so gracefully into the foibles, and displayed so humorously the excesses, of a fine woman too sensible of her charms, too confident in her strength, and led away by her pleasures, that no succeeding Lady Townley arrived at her many distinguished excellencies in the character.