"She'll slip her cable some day," Reginald declared soothingly.

After taking back to the galley my emptied pewter dish, and not being recalled aft to the wheel, I was glad to hang idly over the rail, watching the shore line slip past, and permit my thoughts to drift back to my conversation with Fairfax.

They must have chosen this late hour purposely; they had doubtless endeavored to slip past us unobserved, seeking some more desolate spot on the coast where they might land unseen.

More sleep, recreational trips, vacations slip into the rank of necessities, whereas previously they had been laughed at as luxuries.

"Madame Bourdieu has given me a slip of paper bearing the date of the birth and the address.

They looked for a slip of paper on which to set down the figures; first the month's nursing, thirty francs; then the doctor, six francs; and indeed, with the medicine, that would make ten francs.

I would slip the collar for fear of the halter; but here comes my runner, and if he run for me, his race dies, he is as sure as dead as if a Parliament of devils had decreed it.

But this was a slip of memory.

Appius was probably a slip of the pen for Virginius, who in Sheridan Knowles' drama that bears his name kills his daughter to protect her from Appius.

I disentangled myself from its coils, only to slip and almost lose my balance by stepping into some spilled liquid which lay thick and greasy on the bare boards.

A jury had been selected without much manifest attention by Tutt, who had nevertheless managed to slip in an Abyssinian brother on the back row, and an ex-dog fancier for Number Six.

They did that to Mike Malone once, when he flagged the Century Flier when it was goin' to slip over a broken bridge.

"I was utterly sick and disgusted with the whole cold-blooded game of cat and mouse, but the police needed my evidence about the Notes and the burglary, and did not intend to let me slip out of their clutches.

He took out his pocket-book, and drew forth a slip of paper upon which was gummed a brief newspaper cutting.

They were much too large for her; she could slip them on and off without unlocking; but as toys they were a delight.

R.A.F. engine" He paused and quickly glanced at her, for he realised his blunder the instant the slip had been made.

That slip about the R.A.F. engine was unpardonable.

Fat may slip through the system without much of it adhering; and I think it pretty evident that it usually does so.

Leave the slip-panels down, it won’t matter much now, There are none but the crows left to see, Perching gaunt in yon pine, as though longing to dine On a broken-down squatter like me.

So joys that slip like dead leaves down, And hopes burnt out that die in ashes, Rise restless from their graves to crown Our mother's brow with fadeless flashes.

" "Yes, I've given the subject much thought," grumbled Andy; "but somehow I seem to slip up when it comes to the critical time.

and even slip past the revolutionary army, after being bombarded by their old cannon, here even our own men want to smash our precious aeroplane, under the belief that it's an evil bird, come to bring bad luck to the people.

He leads his life as one leads a dog in a slip that will not follow, but is dragged along until he is almost hanged, as he has it often under consideration to treat himself in convenient time and place, if he can but catch himself alone.

Though it will slip out sometimes, I own.

"Give him another month here, and he'll be giving you all the slip, and walking back to Calais on foot."