The slippery edge, polished by bare feet through many years, seemed the one bit of reality in this dream, except the warmth of her hands.

But as he crouched, a muffled report rushed forth, and as he clung desperately to the slippery edge, a second.

All knew it: its slippery edge, its polished upright sides, the seething cauldrons within it; and knew, too, that the next wave would boil up from it in a hundred jets, and suck in the strongest to his doom, to fall, with brains dashed out, into a chasm from which was no return.

" Alas for these young people they were sporting upon the verge of a precipice, but its slippery edge was concealed by flowers.