"Slit" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... on them, Biff ripped a knife from his pocket, opened it and slit through waist and skirt-band and whatever else intervened, to her corset, which he opened with big fingers, the sudden deftness of which was marvelous. Directing them with crisp, sharp commands, he guided ...
— The Making of Bobby Burnit - Being a Record of the Adventures of a Live American Young Man • George Randolph Chester
... darken to night, They would hie along in the fading light, With elf-locked hair and scarlet lips, And small stone knives to slit the skeps, So softly not a bee inside Should hear the woven straw divide: And then with sly and greedy thumbs Would rifle the ...
— Peacock Pie, A Book of Rhymes • Walter de la Mare
... little eye A-swivellin' stem to starn; 'Now, Wells,' I ses, 'you must do or die,' So I crammed my cap a-top o' the slit And lashed it fast in place with a bit, Wot I'd pinched, of ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 152, May 9, 1917 • Various
... with a tear compare these last Lame and bad times with those are past, While Baucis by, My old lean wife, shall kiss it dry; And so we'll sit By th' fire, foretelling snow and slit And weather by our aches, grown Now old ...
— A Selection From The Lyrical Poems Of Robert Herrick • Robert Herrick
... growled at her—the words coming through a slit at the corner of his rowdy mouth, "Sit still, ...
— Free Air • Sinclair Lewis
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