I do not intend to let this matchless creature slide through my fingers.

To use a likeness, the wheel was thus ever working to draw up the slide of a camera obscura, and let in whatever pictures might be abroad in the dreams of the day, that the watcher within might behold them.

No one spoke a word; no one had a comment to make, even when we saw the rookery slide into the water while we were still fifty yards from the beach.

"We'll have to leave it and take to the Canal or the jungle, to say nothing of standing up to our knees in dirt taking slides.

Then he opened the lanthorn slide, took out from his neckcloth that same pin with the onyx head which he had used in the Why Not? and fixed it in the tallow a short inch from the top, setting the lanthorn down upon the sward in front of Maskew.

Don't you remember what you said ages ago at The Birches, Diggy, when you went down that slide on skates?

In buying the instruments which hold many slides, we should prefer two that hold fifty to one that holds a hundred.

A bullet struck the door a sounding thump and all but penetrated, raising a bump on the inner face of its thick oaken panels; and Victor shut the slide and turned back.

Only, instead of square, flat stairs there were these cross pieces of wood, to hold the cakes of ice from slipping down the toboggan slide back into the lake again.

Finally we passed "Rogers' Slide," which is a rocky precipice three hundred feet high, sloping nearly perpendicularly into the water.

Every morning, about nine o'clock, I placed fourteen slides on the lee side of the field, and every evening, about seven o'clock, I removed them, and placed others till the following morning at nine o'clock.

Becker's small instrument, containing fifty paper slides, back to back, is the one we like best for these slides, but the top should be arranged so as to come off,the first change we made in our own after procuring it.

Joe himself pushed the slide and took out of the drawer the picture, which had lain just beneath the Almaquo stock certificates.

Bodmer, in 1841, and Meyer, in 1842, employed two slides or blocks fitted over apertures in the ordinary slide valve, and which blocks were approximated or set apart by a right and left handed screw passing through both.

The Wind Creatures had built a slide there by brushing away the snow and leaving a broad track of shining blue ice.

When they had finished, Victor elbowed them out of his way and thrust back the slide of a narrow horizontal peephole, through which he reconnoitred.

A greaser touched the crosshead-slides with a tallow swab, and a panting fireman thrust a bar through the furnace door.

The genius, energy, and prophetic enthusiasm of Savonarola had made, it is true, a desperate rally on the verge of the precipice; but no one man has ever power to turn back the downward slide of a whole generation.

It seemed to him that he could hear footsteps following, and in the terror that possessed him he almost expected every instant to feel the cold knife-blade slide between his own ribs in such a thrust from behind as he had seen given to the poor black man.

Then, in the light from my lantern, I inserted the shutter into the slide, and reversed the slide, so as to have a fresh plate ready to expose at any time.

Don't forget to film the slide if one occurs.

As I closed the slide and stepped back, I was conscious only that a useful train of thought had been started.

Or that you wrote biology text to accompany a new medium, slides made from strips of 35-mm film?

This time it burned suddenly clear and large and very bright, away off to the left of him where he had by daylight noticed a bare shale slide.

The pistol was not cocked; I managed to get hold of Abdul Ali's wrist and wrench the weapon away before he could pull back the slide.