Word: slipped
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...DIANA ARCHIBALD."How was that for a sit on, and only because o that miserable slip...
Perhaps, however, the "too" only crept in by accident, owing to a slip on the part of the Editors similar to that of the lady who was saved from drowning by "Providence and that other...
DEAR JACK,- I find that I have an excellent opportunity to pass a few months in Europe; and as I never allow opportunities of this sort to slip by, I am going to sail next week. As this, then, is probably the last letter that I shall write to you for some time, I shall venture to devote it to a subject which may not be of immediate interest to you at this moment, but which certainly will occupy a great deal of your time when you have penetrated a little deeper into the mysteries of college life. I refer...
...postman recommends all who desire to have their mail delivered at their rooms, to have their doors so arranged that it is possible to slip a letter beneath them...
...that team will add another to its long list of victories. They should remember, however, that the greater the elevation the more severe the fall. Several of our best men are unable to play in this game, and the rest should carefully see to it that victory does not slip through their fingers from inadvertence, or from any too sanguine notion of a "soft thing." To underrate your opponent is a fatal mistake in war or politics, and may prove disastrous even in foot-ball...