Word: slipping
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...want - " Then the boy produced a little written slip of paper and handed it to Mr. Metcalf...
...must write it out," said she, and she gave me a slip of paper. In my hurry I made two or three mistakes and had to tear off a piece. When I had finished it I presented...
...Mott Haven games is rapidly drawing near. Let the vacation serve as a time for good resolves, and when we come back from our week's enjoyment let all our athletes and would-be athletes begin work with renewed vigor and an earnest determination not to let the cup slip from our hands without an honest effort to retain...
There's many a slip twixt the heel...
...difficult to get a book which we want without waiting a long time for it. Probably few books taken from the library cannot easily be read in two weeks; and those which cannot be returned at the end of this time might be renewed, by giving in a new slip at the library. In this way books would not be kept out long after they were read, merely because men are too lazy to take them back. And if it were not necessary to present the book itself at the library, the inconvenience of renewing would be very slight. Those...