Which preposition to use with slicking
J. FISK, Jr., may set the heel of his bute down onto the neck of Rail RodesSteambotesballet gals, and all that sort o' thing, and this mundane speer will jog along, as slick as a pin, and no questions asked.
When he opened them again late in the evening it was to say: "Found some o' those suckers who were goin' so slick to Minóok; some o' them down at the second village, and the rest are winterin' in Anvik, so the Indians say.
They're too slick for a feller like me," "It is an ungodly place," the doctor agreed.
Dere was three cubs down in dat tree an' hit was so slick inside an' so high 'til he couldn't clim' out, an' afte' while de ole bear came back an' throw in half a hog.
"No disrespect to 'e though, vor that don't argify; but I could ketch hold on 'e by the scroff o' yer neck an' the seat o' yer breeches, an' pitch 'e slick into the roadway among the iron.
Remember you can't recognize a thief by his clothes, and lots of the slickest of them travel about the country.
"If they get away from us, Andrew, they'll be slicker than anyone I ever heard tell of, anywhere.
Half an hour later he came downstairs, all shaved and slicked upin a white sweater, white tennis shoes, with a silk handkerchief about his neck, and a fatigue cap set rakishly on the side of his head, as if there were no such thing as hot weather or war, while his orderly went up and brought his equipment down to the terrace, and began such a beating, brushing, and cleaning of boots as you never saw.
The floor was slick with banana peels.
he thought he'd git his taters, but he got fooled es slick es greese." "How was that?" asked Robert.
Piney Woods Tavern, or Sam Slick in Texas.