" The two friends were just rising from the form on which they had been sitting, when they were accosted by Browse, who, strolling up with a pair of dilapidated slippers on his feet, which caused him to walk as though he were skating, inquired in drawling tones, "I say, have either of you kids got a watch-key?" Jack Vance handed him the required article, which happened to be of the kind which fit all watches.

But isn't it an honour to patch or set up slippers for a man who keeps his neighbours in fine linen all the days of their lives?

Johnnie noticed then that Mrs. Bence had a pair of cheap slippers in her lap.

Besides the productions of nature that I have mentioned, I procured some specimens of their cloth, a few light toys, a lady's turban decorated with cantharides, a pair of slippers with heavy metallic soles, which are used there for walking in a strong wind, and by the dancing girls to prevent their jumping too high.

"Who knows but the purse of Fortunatus or the slipper of Cinderella may be in here?they have been lost for many a day, and nobody knows where they are.

" Mrs. Coblenz shifted her weight from one slipper to the other, her maroon-net skirts lying in a swirl around them.

Would Sir Harryon his way to his quarters that nightwould he think it beneath his dignity to leave the slippers at Anthony Styles the shoemaker's?

He was dressed, or rather undressed, in an old brown coat, red waistcoat, old corduroy smallclothes, much soiled, woollen hose, and slippers without heels.

What a fragile, gracile thing is the mind that can leap thus from nine bargain basement hours of hairpins and darning-balls to the downy business of lining a crib in Never-Never Land and warming No Man's slippers before the fire of imagination.

Then he reached out one quick arm and pulled his slippers into bed with him, and when they were warm enough put them on his feet, wrapped himself up well, and, running to the window, raised it quickly, thrust his head out, and looked up and down the campus.

To reduce the speed of my progress, I found I had only to pull a pair of slippers over my boots.

Also he found a pair of Anne's slippers under the bed, and, caught in a crack of the dressing-table, one long black hair.

Fanny did not choose to see the expression, and positively beaming with smiles, all directed, like a sheaf of arrows, full upon the gentleman, pushed the point of her slipper from the skirt of her dress, and said she would be exceedingly obliged to Mr. Verty, if he would fasten the ribbon which had become loose.

She wore yellow stockings and slippers as a reminder of the anthers or pollen boxes on the ends of the stamens of the lilies.

These manifestations are executed by the Medium's foot, which, on one occasion, was distinctly seen before it had time to get back into its slipper by one of our number, who stooped very quickly to pick up a slate which had accidentally fallen to the floor while the Spirits were trying to put it into the lap of one of the sitters.

On quitting the hall she leaves a slipper behind her, by means of which she is identified by the prince, who finds that hers is the only foot that the slipper will fit, and marries her.

The sisters were quite amazed; but their astonishment increased tenfold when Cinderella drew the fellow slipper out of her pocket, and put it on.

There weren't any spangly dresses and gold slippers about her, I can tell you!

"I don't believe that the Empress Josephine has any prettier slippers than those," he said.

He heard him, as he thought, walking in his slippers through the room, and making his customary arrangements previously to getting into bed.

She was under the guidance of Mr. Greatheart, and went, therefore, with silver slippers along the thorny road.

Again and hurriedly did she prepare for his reception,again place his chair by the fire, his slippers beside it; and stand with a beating heart and suspended breath, to await the entrance of the truant.

With something approaching amusement, he watched the housekeeper pick up a candlestick from the middle of the floor and put his Jaeger slippers beneath the chair, having found one by the cupboard and the other over by the fireplace.

"OH, I AM SO GLADDEAR HARRIETTHERE IS A CHANCE OF PEACEI AM MAKING THESE SLIPPERS AGAINST DEAR ALFRED COMES BACK!" Cousin Tom.

"I wish to purchase," she began through slightly relaxed lips, "a pair of satin dancing slippers like those in your windowhigh-heeled, one strap, and possibly with those jewelled buckles."