"I gave him the slip.

But the day following, weak and too soft for the lift, straining to remove the great dish-pan high with crockery from sink to table, she let slip, grasping for a new hold.

" "Very well, sir," replied the operator, taking the slip of paper.

" She drew the slip of paper from her pocket and pressed it into Aunt Jane's hand.

"What news, you black rascal?" "Huh," said Brutus again, and handed him a spotted slip of paper.

If only the mist would clear from before my eyes, or he would hold the slip of paper nearer!

"Here, read this," and he passed the lad a slip of paper.

When Bennen saw the snow slip, heard its thunder Low, louder, roaring round him, felt the speed Growing swifter as the avalanche hurled downward, Did he for just one heart-throbdid he indeed Know with all certainty, as they swept onward, There was the end, where the crag dropped away?

This industry in the squirrel is an instinct which directs it to lay up a store of provision for the winter; and as it is probable that its memory is not sufficiently retentive to enable it to recollect all the spots in which it deposits its acorns, it no doubt makes some slips in the course of the season, and loses some of them.

A former king of the country had sent to Central India and got a slip of the patra tree, which he planted by the side of the hall of Buddha, where a tree grew up to the height of about two hundred cubits.

"That is a Carlist watch-fire, Senorita," answered the officer briskly, and no one seemed to notice his slip of the tongue except Sarrion, who glanced at him and then decided not to remind him that the title no longer applied to Juanita.

Upon the table in our room I found in the morning a slip of paper, on which Dr. Johnson had written with his pencil these words, 'Quantum cedat virtutibus aurum.'

He had cut one pallid slip, and held it tenderly between knife and thumb.

At the end of August 1829 Lockhart was again at Abbotsford; and sending the slips of Sir Walter's new article for the next Quarterly.

" As he spoke, Diggory produced the slip of paper from his waistcoat pocket.

And still Mac prayed the Lord to catch up this slip he had made here on the Yukon with reference to the natives.

It can be prettily shown with the seedlings by breaking off a bean at the ground and putting the slip in water.

On June 25th a woman brought a slip of writing from Nana, promising to give a safe passage to Allahabad to all who were willing to lay down their arms.

G.D., instead of keeping the slip that leads to the gate, had deliberately, staff in hand, in broad, open day, marched into the New River.

The chairman rose to speak to the men for the last time, and Dawson sat listening and studying a small slip of paper in his hand.

She was pale and full of anxiety until I showed her the slip of paper which Otto Kampf had given me with the address written upon it, and then together we hurried forth.

Perspicuity is the first and most necessary Qualification; insomuch that a good-natur'd Reader sometimes overlooks a little Slip even in the Grammar or Syntax, where it is impossible for him to mistake the Poets Sense.

The elder woman seized the slip with hands which could not disguise their trembling.

After refusing for a long time I finally weakened and signed the slip; but I did not place it on the book.

Then, carrying a slip of paper in his hand, the novelist had been passed on through London from policeman to policeman, until he took train to a village in Warwickshire, where the little daughter of an innkeeper had recognised him from seeing his portrait in one of the illustrated newspapers.