They now had there no such leaders as Albert Sidney Johnston, who fell at Shiloh when victory was in Southern hands and before it had time to slip from their grasp.
We'll have to slip under cover to get a chance of seeing him.
It was cool and fresh, and the sergeant could not resist the temptation to slip off his clothes and dive into it once or twice.
If we was to leave our horses here with a couple of men we could slip down among the trees and bushes, and there ain't one chance in ten that we'd be seen on so dark a night.
The technical term "draft" is used to indicate the operation of causing the fibres to slip on each other, and in future we shall speak about this attenuation or drawing out of the fibres by this special term "draft.
But that fellow, educated and Christian that he was, had not outgrown the feeling that a sleeper must not be roused, and so let the chance slip by.
Up to this point we seemed to be carrying our audience with us, but now they slip from our grasp.
Write ratings on the slip of paper attached to each course.
One slip on that icy ledge, and down you'd go into the dark water and under the ice in a jiffy.
Sometimes he pushed the noose aside, and again he would slip through it, and though occasionally a snare was sprung, the denizens of the sand-bank always managed to get away.
While they watched her, they saw her slip on a bit of icy ground and fall, the log fortunately rolling to one side.
Many people telephoned to know by what train we were leaving, but we decided to slip away to Yokohama in the motor.
She exchanged the numbered stick that fell out for a slip of paper which had a prescription printed on it, and then went out to buy the medicine with a sublime faith that it was just what her baby needed for its recovery.
Besides, we did not know how you might be faring, and thought it quite possible that the craft you were after might attempt to give you the slip in the darkness.
I am ashamed to say that among us we let her slip past in the darkness of the early part of the last watch, and so I missed the opportunity of speaking her.
He disappeared, but returned, after an interval of a minute or two, and handed me a note scrawled on a small slip of paper.
Mr Dugdale, just slip below and let the master know that the land is in sight on the port bow, bearing east-half-south, distant twenty miles.
To mould to such celestial stuff A soul, my dear, as yours is moulded, Wherein all dreams of life lie folded, And through whose doors a friend may slip Into serene companionship.
Guard ye, wild hills, with scar and whip Your outlawry Lest alien-hearted pigmies tame Your trackless boulders, And with their unclean cunning slip The leash of civilry Fast round your shoulders.
The noon is sultry, Heated and clammy, I, Towards the live waves turning, slip my tunic, Then run in naked.
Outside a day may slip From noon-glow to a miracle of stars With hours that flush and flood eternity; Whilst here The stagnant waters drip .
He had only to wait now until the minister appeared with the additional currency, and then at the first opportunity he would slip down to the vault, get the diamonds, and go straight to Miss Dounay.
Varnished oilcloth leggings, made to slip on over his shoes, were relied upon to give the effect of top boots.
Two hours passed wearily, and then an orderly sergeant came into the room and read out from a slip of paper the names "Captain Thomas Scudamore; Captain Peter Scudamore.
We can slip out easily enough after we are supposed to have gone to bed; but how are we to get back?
In that case you slipoff your shoes, if you would do as the Romans do, and tuck your feet up under you.
The fineness of the grind should be regulated by the nature of the filtering medium, the grains being large enough not to slip through the perforations.
Another popular type of container is the paper, or fiber, can which is made of fiber board with a slip cover.
It needed such succor the more in that it was extremely backward, being no larger than the slip of a pink.
Each little tender coffeeslip He waters daily in the ship.
In 1753 it was moved again, to Hunter's Quay, which was situated on what is now Front Street, somewhere between the present Old Slip and Wall Street.
Him and me's same as brothers, and he was mortal fond to ride my ould donkey when he was a slip of a lad.
But your mother is fidgeting, and this is no place for a slip of a girl--come!
The ground was covered with cracked domes like the arches of buried cities, but the caverns that lay beneath them were guarded by spiked jaws which only a man's foot could slip through.
And seeing how little Sunlocks was rapt, Stephen struggled hard with himself and said, turning to the Governor: "Now's the time for me to slip away.
Slip this in your fob," said Jacob to the jurymen.
So she decided that she would write to him, and then slip away as best she could, seeing him no more.
But it is like the way of the world itself, that, having set ourselves a task, we must follow it as regularly as the sun rises and sets, and the day comes and the night follows, or once letting it slip it will drop into a chaos.
And immediately he who counted took out a slip of paper and marked something down upon it.
Jack Scarfield--seemed to evade him like a shadow, to slip through his fingers like magic.
Slip down the side, Martin, and get in while I hold on to the rope.
As Bob spoke, he handed the rope to the little boy; but, in doing so, let it accidentally slip out of his hand.
If I get the chance, I'll slip overboard and swim to one of their boats.
Dick observed that the lugger lay in such a position that she could easily slip out again, should danger threaten.
We have done very well as yet, but there's many a slip between tin cup and the lip, as I have found to my cost more than once.
Well, we must try to forget the circumstance at present, or we shall be letting something slip out," remarked Voules.
However, I won't let slip any opportunity of punishing him as he deserves.
As she took the letter out, there fell from it a light slip of paper; with surprise she saw that it was a post-office order.
They sprawled and fell, they staggered up again with indignant wagging of head and tail, they rushed forward only to slip more desperately; now one leg failed them, now the other, now both at once.
He found a short letter, and a printed slip which looked like a circular.
He stared at the slip of paper for a moment, conviction rushing to his mind that his pursuer knew the truth; then he took his revolver from his pocket and examined its chambers.
Mr. Johnson tapped with his forefinger theslip of paper upon which he had written the two addresses.
Once every twelve months, a strange little man brings me a slip of paper.
There mustn't be time for any one to slip off abroad, or anything of that sort.
It seemed to slip down over the edge of the world.
If a man is to be irreligious, let him at least know why, and not slip into this estate, as most irreligious men do, by careless living and frivolous thought.
The smooth piston slides backward and forward as a lady might slip her delicate finger in and out of a ring.
They saw Him in His glory, and the earth clung to their feet no more than as the sandals they could slip off them.
Do not forfeit your chances by letting the cord slip which includes these three kingdoms in the pale of the same faith.
