1 He bent down, feeling in the obscurity for the glassy slide worn by preceding coasters, and placed the runners carefully between its edges.
2 Her hand was on the pommel and she was preparing to slide off but Scarlett screamed at her.
3 She saw curtains slide back into innocent smoothness.
4 Going forward to the forecastle, we found the slide of the scuttle open.
5 Over this lip, as over a slippery threshold, we now slide into the mouth.
Moby Dick By Herman MelvilleContext Highlight In CHAPTER 75. The Right Whale's Head—Contrasted View. 6 This spade is sharp as hone can make it; the spademan's feet are shoeless; the thing he stands on will sometimes irresistibly slide away from him, like a sledge.
Moby Dick By Herman MelvilleContext Highlight In CHAPTER 94. A Squeeze of the Hand. 7 The young men capered along with their hands in their pockets, and sometimes tried a slide on the icy sidewalk.
8 So I went to talking about other kings, and let Solomon slide.
9 Her face would give them a hint, sure; they've got the money, and they'd slide right out and get away with it.
10 Of course I wanted to slide down and get it out of there, but I dasn't try it.
11 We can get along with it, too," he says; "just you slide down cellar and fetch it.
12 An then he slipped on Bestwood Hill, on a slide as the lads ad made last winter, an broke his thigh, and that finished him, poor old man, it did seem a shame.
13 Let man slide down to general idiocy in the emotional and 'human' mind, Clifford did not care.
14 The cold clouds hastened on in a body, as if painted on a moving slide.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContext Highlight In BOOK 3: 6 Yeobright Goes, and the Breach Is Complete 15 The wooden slide was drawn back and the faint murmur of a voice troubled the silence.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James JoyceContext Highlight In Chapter 3