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The effort to maintain his balance was more than the weakened muscles could stand. A deep groan broke from his lips as his arms gave way; his head fell and he plunged forward, slipping over the horse's shoulder and coming head first to the ground, where he lay in a limp, dishevelled heap.
She went here and there, silly with love, crimson with joy; and she did not know what to imagine, what to say or do, in order to give herself and all that she had. I was lying on the sofa; I felt, at every word she spoke, a bad hour of my past life slipping away from me.
What is so foolish as the terror lest the blacks should be made furious by freedom and wages? It is denying these that is the outrage, and makes the danger from the blacks. But justice satisfies everybody, white man, red man, yellow man, and black man. All like wages, and the appetite grows by feeding. But this measure, to be effectual, must come speedily. The weapon is slipping out of our hands.
"Oh, I'm so glad it's a pretty day!" said Mother Marshall, slipping her gloved hands in her sleeves to keep from shivering with excitement. Mother Marshall sat quite decorously in the automobile till the train drew up to the platform and people began to get out.
Moreover, as the component parts of our identity change from moment to moment, our personality becomes a thing dependent upon the present, which has no logical existence, but lives only upon the sufferance of times past and future, slipping out of our hands into the domain of one or other of these two claimants the moment we try to apprehend it.
You are young, Yvonne, to believe there is nothing more for you in life that is worth while." "I know that would be true if these were not war times, Madame," the girl answered. "Will you please listen to my story now? There may be no opportunity at another time." Slipping out of her berth, Yvonne proffered the one small chair the state-room afforded to her visitor. "Won't you sit here?
If she's married before Master Luke comes, then he'll come too late, after all." "Haven't I suffered enough, Maureen?" my grandmother asked pitifully "having lost my one boy, and now to see this child slipping away from me! And there's a change in Lord St. Leger; there is, indeed, Maureen. Am I to lose them all, all?" "Whisht, honey, whisht!" Maureen said, with sudden relenting in her voice.
Despite Anisty's supporting arm she reeled back against the wall of the cage, closing her eyes. The man observed this with covert satisfaction. As the speed decreased she began to feel slightly stronger; and again opened her eyes. The floor numbers, black upon a white ground, were steadily slipping down; the first she recognized being 19. The pace was sensibly decreased.
To quieten th' gruff husband, and stop him if he rated her, I could na help slipping another sixpence under th' loaf, and then we set off again. Last look I had o' that woman she were quietly wiping her eyes wi' the corner of her apron, as she went about her husband's breakfast. But I shall know her in heaven."
The Happy Family was slipping into a rivalry of violence; and the strange part of it was that Luck Lindsay, stickler for realism, self-confessed enthusiast on the uplifting of motion pictures to a fine art, permitted their violence, which was not as the violence of other, better trained Western actors.
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