And if thou seest not how slippery Is women's place in the world of men, 'tis like Thou wilt amazedly the vision take, When I have led thee up my tower of thought.
As yellow morn Runs on the slippery waves of the spread sea, Thy feet are on the griefs and joys of men That sheen to be thy causey.
Peter crossed the wet, slippery platform to the car where the other men were working.
As he thus philosophized he was following his guide, who now turned down a flight of steep steps into a yard slippery with black mud and deeply rutted by the wheels of heavy wagons.
In her walk through life she had jostled mostly villains; and a villain is no very dangerous foe, for he fights on slippery ground.
Directly I was taken on deck they closed down the hatch, and, laying me on the heaving, slippery planks, passed a rope round my body to prevent my being thrown against the lee bulwarks.
Saxon laughed her joy and held on close to his heels, splashing through pools, crawling hand and foot up the slippery faces of water-worn rocks, and worming under trunks of old fallen trees.
Half-scrambled back to his feet and out of balance, he was caught by Bert's fist, and this time went clawing down the slope that was slippery with short, dry grass.
It had lasted only seconds, Bert was dancing on the edge of the slippery slope and mocking the vanquished who had slid impotently to the bottom.
They arrived in a roar of good spirits, tripping one another down the slippery trail and engulfing Saxon and Billy in a comradeship as artless and warm as the sunshine itself.
The floor was heaped with the dead, and the stones were slippery with blood.
The stones of the fallen wall, slippery with blood, rocked beneath their feet.
Odin, then, without speaking, suddenly stooped and seized in his strong arms the wriggling, slippery serpent.
I don't know another house near the Sand Belt he could reach to-night, and Jepson's most as slippery a tough as Glover is.
The roan plunged savagely and the water rippled about Kermode's waist as he struggled for a foothold on the slippery stones.
The ascent was difficult: it cost him a tense effort now and then to gain a slippery ledge or to scramble up a slab, and he had frequently to stop and consider how he could best force a passage.
Or to run errands icy-cold days, down slushy streets or slippery hills?
You mean to consign me to the gloom of the grill room or one of those slippery leather chairs in a far corner of the club?
A level way was covered with a broad platform of strong and solid planks; and to render them more slippery and smooth, they were anointed with the fat of sheep and oxen.
At last it hove into sight, moving at a hesitating gait along the slippery rails.
Together they covered the soft, white blanket with a sheet of ice as hard and slippery as plate glass.
The sun had come up brightly; the snow was swept off the decks and ashes thrown upon them so that we could walk, for they had been as slippery as glass.
The cliffs on each side were so high and slippery that the two captains decided to risk “shooting” or steering a canoe through these rapids, though several passing Indians had warned them not to attempt it.
If more be wanting on so plain a theme, Think on the slippery state of human things, The strange vicissitudes, and sudden turns Of war, and fate recoiling on the proud, To crush a merciless and cruel victor.
Still we plodded on with stumbling horses over the slippery way till we emerged on the great plain or plateau of Zatrijebać.
He led us by a short cut over rocks, and up slippery breakneck walls of cliffs, over which our guide skipped nimbly, and having reached the top seemingly hours before us, sat down and beamed benevolently.
Even then the town is hardly apparent, but in a few seconds one enters it down a steep and slippery path of well-worn stones.
The path was now as slippery as grease, and our horses floundered at every other step, and at times we plashed through quagmires, and became bespattered from head to foot.
It was such a funny and novel performance that it snapped the spell for me, and I joined with the men in their shouts of laughter over the antics of the canoe on the slippery mud-bank.
Again and again the noose came back unreeved, and again and again the patient boy, with rare strength and skill, flung the ample noose over the slippery spires of ice.
With the best speed he could make on such slippery footing, La Salle crossed the intervening space, and threw himself down into the boat, panting and breathless with exertion.
I rushed to the very edge and gazed over, then climbed down the slippery piling and peered into the black water beneath.
But the naturalist held his grip and slowly began to pull himself and us up the slippery rock.
The sergeant smiled, recalling a previous occasion when the slippery Wu had squirmed through our fingers.
I crawled out over the ledge of slippery rock to the very edge and looked over.
On a slope soslippery the work of allurement doubtless moved apace.
No man could keep his footing in the slippery path of unending leisure.
Often they were obliged to let their boats down steep rapids by ropes, and clamber after them along the slippery precipices.
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