Which preposition to use with slipped
That there had been a land-slip of some kind, I had little doubt; but the cause was beyond my knowledge; and yet, even then, I had half imaginings; for, already, the thought had come to me, of those falling rocks, and that Thing in the bottom of the Pit; but, in the first minutes of confusion, I failed to reach the natural conclusion, to which the catastrophe pointed.
At once the poor wretch began his fruitless task of hunting for the dice, which for ever slipped from his fingers.
In addition, I loaded, and slipped into my pocket, a small, but heavy, pistol.
"It is stated that a well-known yacht failed to win the prize in the late race, because her rudder slipped out of her fastenings and was lost.
The only indisputable fact I could adduce was that I had allowed my authority to slip through my fingers.
"But no one could slip on that ice; it is quite rough, might almost be a ploughed field,"but they were uncomfortable, and were very pleased when I landed safely on the other side and got into the carriage.
The children slipped in the mud.
She slipped off her boots, and stole gently up to the door that divided her room from the pedlar's.
I choose, rather, to slip to another angle of the question and say a few words about cowards, among whom I have already confessed that I number myself.
Hardly had they reached midstream when Bangura's rifle band, slipping over his arms, pinned them to his side.
" I slipped down a rope, and dropped into the boat, taking my place with a steering oar at the stern, and we shot away through the green water.
Something slipped by the open doorsomething that glimmered faintly; and Lefty Joe knew that it was the red head of Donnegan.
At first I thought it merely a gorge in the rock, but even while peering for the end wall we slipped under the archway and found ourselves in a vast room.
Even if I slipped past the watchers in the woods and the glens, the land between would be strewn with fragments of the Cherokee host, and I had not the Indian craft.
To the eastward Sherman still clung desperately to the crests he had won, but Jack saw with agony that, slipping between him and the river, a great wedge of gray was hurrying forward.
I stumbled and slipped along the hill-side, my breath labouring, and a moaning at my lips from sheer agony and weakness.
Gloria drew back hastily, glancing about her, found the only hiding-place offered, and slipped behind the big rock.
I gave them the slip at Watauga.
Gradually, I grew more collected, while the world slipped across the centuries into the future.
Often, when time did not press, he would lead me, clumsy as I was, so that I could almost touch the muzzle of a crouching deer, or lay a hand on a yellow panther, before it slipped like a live streak of light into the gloom.
He ran back on another tack and slipped about Lefty.
But were any of these considerations sufficient to justify me in letting my whole manhood slip for the sake of one who, whatever the provocation, had used the strength of her hands against the sister who had been as a mother to her for so many years.
"What's your name and company?" "John Sprague, Caribees, Company K." "Slip around the edge of the skirt of bushes.
And, of course," concluded Libbie, "I put ten dollars in the bottle, because whoever found it had the slip with my name on it to show Mrs. Eustice.
They came towards sundown, slipping among us like ghosts.