slipless

Updated: May 10, 2025

Then, holding it high above his head, he looked toward the bed and stared in horror! A blood-encrusted face showed on the slipless pillow, while across the forehead was a jagged, red, untended wound. The mouth was open, the breathing was heavy and labored. The form was quite still, the eyes closed. And the face was that of Harry! So this explained, after a fashion, Harry's disappearance.

Courtney Ryley Cooper - The Cross-Cut

In another bed across the carpetless floor rose and fell the even breath of Edwardes, who was sleeping as a man sleeps after fighting a blizzard. Under the boy's own hot cheek was the roughness of a slipless pillow and his limbs thrashed between coarse sheets that covered a lumpy mattress.

Charles Neville Buck - Destiny