"Slip up" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... him either, an' I was hearin' that he was badly," returned Peter, and his big eye seemed to turn as if it were looking for and expecting some one to slip up behind him. ...
— The Underworld - The Story of Robert Sinclair, Miner • James C. Welsh
... just thinking how easy it would be for a party of us, after it gets dark, to slip up alongside, and take possession of her. Once masters of ...
— The Tiger Hunter • Mayne Reid
... I'm here for," declared O'Grady brightly. "And if I slip up on any of these little notions, why I'll just take a hand in the painting itself—didn't I help on a panorama once? Sure thing. There was a time when I could kind o' swing a brush, and I guess I could do it yet. Let's see: 'The Goddess of Finance,' in robes of saffron and ...
— Under the Skylights • Henry Blake Fuller
... the colonists of our neighborhood the doors always stood open in pleasant weather. Mrs. Stowe entered them at her own free will, and as she was always softly slippered and generally full of animal spirits, she was able to deal in surprises, and she liked to do it. She would slip up behind a person who was deep in dreams and musings and fetch a war-whoop that would jump that person out of his clothes. And she had other moods. Sometimes we would hear gentle music in the drawing-room and would find her there at the piano singing ancient ...
— Chapters from My Autobiography • Mark Twain
... old man, "my v'ice done got hoa'se callin' Jim, too long ergo to talk erbout. You jes' got to let him go 'long, maybe some o' dese days he gwine slip up on de gospel ...
— The Strength of Gideon and Other Stories • Paul Laurence Dunbar
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