Have you," I asked, slipping into the shirt and starting to adjust the cravat, "been gnawing on the thing at all?"

And now some cushions," he added, slipping them behind her.

While the fact that their servants were not at the camp to anticipate their return was certainly suspicious, he was still as convinced as ever that the man he had seen slipping through the ruins was no Burman, but a true son of the Celestial Empire.

Well, I guess John Wright didn't wake when they was slipping that rope under his neck.

Killing a man while he slept, slipping a rope around his neck that choked the life out of him.

(from this slipping into more of a little girl manner)

An accidental fall from the slipping of his foot, brought on his last illness and death.

Well could I picture thee, a dusky sprite, With Dryad hoofs on Thracian ledges drumming, When day is slipping from the arms of night And all the hushed leaves whisper, "Pan is coming!"

She stole out to him that evening after the bridal finery was put away, and knelt at his feet in her plain little muslin dress, her hair all out of crimp, slipping from her net behind her ears,Harrie's ears were very small, and shaded off in the colors of a pale apple-blossom,up-turning her flushed and weary face.

Arteaga and Carrasco took off their shoes and crept gingerly across, using their somewhat prehensile toes to keep from slipping.

when the experiment was tried, it was found that the wheel not only had sufficient bite or adhesion upon the rail to prevent slipping and give a forward motion to the engine, but that a number of cars might be attached and also moved.

He felt himself slipping, slowly at first then faster, faster down into impossible depths, and there was nothing at all he could do to save himself.

When he had experienced his first symptoms of slipping consciousness he had been in the cafe in New York with Carlos Paredes, Maria, the dancer, and a strange man whom Maria had brought to the table.

At the fifth knock the house shook, and a red-faced maid with her shoulders veiled in a large damp towel passed hastily down the staircase and, slipping the catch, passed more hastily still upstairs again, affording the indignant captain a glimpse of a short striped skirt as it turned the landing.

Slipping off his chair, he stood in front of the rector, and told the oft-repeated tale with dramatic force and effect.

He brought a lot of young frogs in a handkerchief, put some of them in the master's desk, and amused himself at intervals by slipping the others down the backs of the boys seated in front of him.

As he roused from it he found himself slipping in the saddle.

Then, becoming involved in close conflict, they knocked down both men and horses, for on account of their momentum the enemy could not help slipping.

It didn't take me long to get into conversation with Jake, and as we talked I swung that can around until it attracted his attention, and he up and asked: "What you got there, Graham?" "Oh, that," I answered, slipping the can behind my back"that's a new lard we're putting outsomething not quite so expensive as our regular brand.

After one surprised glance they sat up, for the man, who was slipping into the room as stealthily as a burglar, was the worst-looking tramp they had ever seen.

"Look here, Semyonov," I said, slipping from the control of his hand, "it's just as you say.

A leathern girdle was found, with which he was fastened to the chair, so as to prevent him slipping from it; and in this state he was hoisted upon the table, and set with his face to the door; looking the very picture of inebriety, with his head drooping on one side, his arms dangling uselessly down, and his thin legs stretched idly out.

The streets are paved with large cobblestones, to prevent cart-wheels from slipping, and are so narrow that I often had to stand up at afternoon tea with my cup in one hand and my chair in the other, to let a straining, toiling little donkey pass me, gallantly hauling his load of fagots up an incline of forty-five degrees.

"It is of no consequence, good François," said Ludlow, slipping a guinea into the hands of the valet.

Characteristically enough, Voltaire, at the last moment, did his best to reinforce his tentative metaphysical observations on 'M. Loke' by slipping into his book, as it were accidentally, an additional letter, quite disconnected from the rest of the work, containing reflexions upon some of the Pensées of Pascal.