Word: slipping
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...exhaustion. For a while, Frank went out of his mind and his wife had to handle him and the ship through a smashing gale. Even after the Reliance was battered into helplessness, the Davisons refused help from passing ships, hoped to make a small port from which they could slip out when the weather cleared...
...tiny village in which they live. Poor men's sons, they have only words to squander, but the words are never counterfeit. They buy belief in the small beauties that rouse Ches and Finn, e.g., the quicksilver grace of a hare giving a pair of pelting hounds the slip, the brotherly ritual of turf-cutting in the broil of a summer sun, the benedictions of the parish priest at the church of Mary Without Stain...
...glanced in the back of the library book and noted that it was already three weeks overdue. "Might be a good idea to slip it into the night slot at Lamont and see if I can duck the fine," he mused. "Definitely a shrewd maneuver...
...obviously in pain, could not understand the intern's questions. Dr. Knopp asked for the admitting slip. He frowned over the man's name for a moment, then asked carefully: "Du redzt Yiddish? [Do you speak Yiddish...
...months after her son's birth in December 1869, Mrs. Robinson of Head Tide, Me. had not got around to naming the baby, her third. Distressed by this, a lady from Arlington, Mass, suggested picking a name from a hat. Out of the hat came a slip marked "Edwin." Well pleased, Mother Robinson tacked on "Arlington" in honor of the lady from Massachusetts, and Edwin Arlington Robinson was tagged with the first of many labels...