Read full poem →and her eyes are full and wet with love, and when she holds out her arms,
and the velvet counterpane half slips from her, and alarms
her trembling modesty, how eagerly he will leap to cover her, and blot himself
Dictionary Entry
A thin, slippery mix of clay and water.
Origin
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Common Phrases
. slipsaway slipsslips depositslips cover
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Poetry examples for “slips”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →Spring slips back with a girl face calling always: “ Any
new songs for me? Any new songs?”
Read full poem →What makes my bed seem hard seeing it is soft?
Or why slips down the coverlet so oft?
Although the nights be long I sleep not tho[134]
Read full poem →I rise and lift her up, holding her hand.
She slips her arm through mine and presses it.
"What a good man you are," she said. "Just like a brother--
Read full poem →For any weeping. Polypheme's white tooth
Slips on the nut if, after frequent showers,
The shell is over-smooth,—and not so much
Read full poem →For any weeping. Polypheme’s white tooth
Slips on the nut if, after frequent showers,
The shell is over-smooth,—and not so much
Read full poem →As Summer into Autumn slips
And yet we sooner say
Read full poem →And, babbling low amid the tangled woods,
Slips down through moss-grown stones with endless laughter.
And frequent, on the everlasting hills,
Read full poem →explained at all with any reasonable hope of touching the beginner's mind
with matter that he can appropriate. Often the young reader slips over
points of possible learned annotation without the least consciousness