Quotes About Slipped

We meant to temporarily disable her," Ian said. "Just a drop. But Natalie slipped during air turbulence. Before we could warn your nose-ringed nanny, she drenched us. Luckily, she allowed us to retrieve the antidote from our carry-on." "That's kindness," Amy said. "I made them agree to give me all their cash," Nellie explained. "That's bribery," Natalie grumbled.

Ice slipped from everything, limb, twig, stump, rock, and cascaded chinking to ground. Mist lifted from the bottoms to lie over the tracks but did not lift much above her head. Mist smeared like tears squashed on her cheeks.

Although the mask had frantically tried to break down the barrier, you had slipped through it without touching. Like the wind … or a spirit. I do not understand you. Putting you to any further tests would be nothing more than my own destruction.

Time to wake up." Rick muted the TV when a commercial came on. He slipped on his reading glasses and asked, "What is the groundnut better known as?" Lydia carefully rolled onto her back so the cat wouldn't be disturbed. "The peanut.

This morning I was laughing at my cat who was running up the stairs and slipped, and pretended like it didn't happen.

Now chart music is a genre all of its own and it's slipped away from what I understand pop music as. It's pretty difficult to take; it clogs up the airwaves.

A guy in Greek armor drew his sword and charged, but slipped in a puddle of pina colada.

How could he explain it in a way Leslie would understand, how he yearned to reach out and capture the quivering life about him and how when he tried, it slipped past his fingertips, leaving a dry fossil upon the page?

This morning I was laughing at my cat who was running up the stairs and slipped, and pretended like it didn't happen.

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If such a little figure Slipped quiet from its chair

I got down on my knees and slipped on her diamond and ruby rings, which I'd been holding on to while she was away. "As promised. I mean, except for the naked part. But we can worry about that later.

The Deputy Sub-Bursar heard no more; he had slipped out of the vestibule and was looking up a number in the telephone book.

I slipped at a bus stop; I went one way and my hair went the other. That was the end of my wig.

Then, in the same way that his own dwelling slipped away behind him as he rounded a corner on his bicycle, the dream slipped away from his thoughts. Very briefly, a little guiltily, he tried to grasp it back. But the feelings had disappeared. The Stirrings were gone.

He was a good average Englishman who had slipped.

Nobody was greatly bothered when it was noticed that Gnaeus' little brother, Sextus, had slipped away

on his five-mile walk. When she slipped through the door under the ivy, she saw he was not working

Do you wrestle with dreams? Do you contend with shadows? Do you move in a kind of sleep? Time has slipped away. Your life is stolen. You tarried with trifles, Victim of your folly. —DIRGE FOR JAMIS ON THE FUNERAL PLAIN, FROM "SONGS OF MUAD'DIB" BY THE PRINCESS IRULAN

The others were visible but she had slipped out of their vision, and slipping from their vision, she slipped from the vision of Thorne.

Bit by bit they slipped back into their old strange talk. Maimonides, Yehuda Halevi's Kuzari, Philosophy, Spinoza, and other such nonsense which went in one ear and out the other.

Blood and guts everywhere. Who would have thought one old woman could make so much mess? Mick tippy-toed through the gore, planning each step to avoid getting any on his Docs. Christ, he'd just polished them a couple of hours ago. What if he slipped and ended up back in hospital? Some people had no consideration for others, sure enough.

He felt the loss of something irreplacable, as if a thief had come out of the night, velvet-gloved and softly shod, and taken whatever it was away without Jury's ever having known, and slipped through the square

Anyway," he went on after a moment, sounding more relaxed, "the first time I went hunting with Firestar, I really wanted to impress him. I ran so hard after a squirrel that I slipped on some wet leaves, went nose over paws, and crashed into a tree. Great StarClan, it hurt! And what hurt even more was that I was pretty sure Firestar had to stop himself from laughing." "Really?