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Lucy shivered and felt the reverie slip away from her grasp
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On Sunday evening, a palaver was held in the palace, the chiefs being hastily summoned, and it was thought that this was a ruse to get them together to endeavour to slip away in the night, get clear, collect their forces and attempt an attack on Kumassi when most of the troops had been withdrawn
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He would slip away at the earliest opportunity, return the Sacred Roots to Brockenhurst Sett, then throw himself on the Preceptor's mercy
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That's all she would need, just one last opportunity to slip away from the horrors surrounding her
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Taking a moment to allow the last vestiges of her dream to slip away, she tested her leg once more, and finding that the cramp had subsided, headed for the surface
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She looked at the small, hurt child in front of her, feeling her resistance slip away
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With work on the house dragging on, Caroline’s taste for the wild nightlife got the better of her and she began to slip away evenings to the downtown clubs
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For years, Leon had lusted over his brother’s millions, but in each scheme to slip away with some, Gordon loomed as too potent a figure – until he developed the Plan
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He could look at her now and feel the inequality of their positions slowly slip away
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Colling was concerned that the Russian would not be satisfied with their drinking one glass with him, and hit upon the idea of making the man a gift of a bottle of the Countess’ cognac, diverting his attention long enough for them to slip away
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If there had been any good chance of trying to slip away unnoticed it was by then long gone
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She half-turned her head to see Ethan next to her, feeling the gun in her hand slip away
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You are letting things slip away, all
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He charges at Will, grabbing his arm so he can’t slip away, and punches him hard in the jaw
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I wasn’t ready for my life to slowly slip away after that moment
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How frail Una had looked, lying there on the vestry sofa in that long faint! How thin were her tiny hands, how pallid her little face! She looked as if she might slip away from him in a breath--sweet little Una, of whom Cecilia had begged him to take such special care
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However, should you come upon the bear while he is mauling another man, do you, so poorly armed, attack the bear to help the man or slip away, glad it is he and not you being mauled?”
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knowledge of modern man slip away would mean that civilization
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During the recent economic downturn we saw how easily money seemed to slip away, how difficult it became to acquire and to keep, how suddenly fortunes can disappear and prospects dry up
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slip away to inform the others so that they could react
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He was getting old and his health was failing in any case so he would quietly slip away to his favourite spot on the beach and end it all
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It took centuries to find Anna and here she was, about to slip away before they could look into her eyes
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“I had a great girl who loved me, but I just let her slip away
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And I made pay that debt with his life and I had to look at that boy and see his life slip away the same as his father
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But, because Waldorf was so much fun, he let his worry slip away
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Consciousness began to slip away
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The man tucked the slip away in his vest and began to speak in what sounded like an
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Luke 5:16 - But Jesus Himself would often slip away to the wilderness and pray
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He wasn’t going to let Ruth slip away from him without doing his damnedest to keep her
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Maybe I'm afraid because I have gone through it before or maybe I just don't think that I can go another twenty-three knowing that I let you slip away from me
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Florence stopped looking and waited for a chance to slip away unnoticed
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Olivier watched his beautiful wife slip away and became angry with the world
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He watched while a servant brought the hot, spiced wine, then letting his joviality slip away, he stared at Travis
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As he granted my wish with all the love he could muster, I felt the tangible world slip away from under my feet
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Was she supposed to slip away quietly? Was she expected to pretend it never happened? Would he want to start a relationship of some kind? Whatever the ground rules were in such a situation, she had no idea what they were
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He was about to slip away when he noticed the source of the meat on the fire
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slip away for the love of his life
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” She said, with a sharp tone, Coatl mumbled something to himself; I just let the conversation slip away from me
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Early in the afternoon Coatl pulled me aside and said that after the presentation of the ladies of the Sisters of the Moon he was going to slip away because he had lots more work to do on the plans for the boat, I asked him to stay and listen to what promised to be by all accounts an event never to be forgotten
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Carla planned to have another sudden recovery, and slip away to follow the man
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She would slip away back to northern Italy with false papers and the world would think her dead
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Garcia was about to slip away when he felt a hand touch his shoulder
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No, don’t be stupid, Mark; don’t let this chance to be bill-free slip away
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premises and slip away
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There was enough shade and once she had made the kill, she could slip away the way she had come
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and they had let it slip away
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After being healed, this nameless woman tried to slip away,
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to let you slip away without ever asking,” he stared deeply into her eyes, “would
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The pleasures that are with us today slip away from us tomorrow
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place, and he was not going to let this chance slip away
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But as we held one another in silence, the years seemed to slip away
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Thus, if you have not realized the Godly Omnipotence, your uttering the word 'the Omnipotent' is considered valueless, when this word will soon slip away if you see a sword directed to you
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With this awareness, IT began to slip away from its creators and controllers inside a secretly coded agenda of its own
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wanted to slip away in the darkness and pretend this episode never
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Ah! The hours slip away
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I read them sometimes in the night, watching by my step-mother in the half-dark room during the moments when she had a little peace and was allowed to slip away from torture into sleep
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As soon as Sionna had turned away from the intensive care wing, Aazuria had tried to slip away from them
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At 4 am I could slip away to the train station and not be missed until the sun rose on the Eastern horizon Thursday morning
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It was odd how sure of him she was when she was not going to have a baby, of what an easy confidence in his love, and how he seemed to slip away from her when she was
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But they were getting near Symford; they were halfway down the hill; he could not let her slip away perhaps suddenly from his side into the shadows without at least trying to find out where she was staying
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Must it not be beautiful, thought Priscilla, to slip away so quietly in that sunny room, with no sound to break the peace but the ticking of the clock that marked off the last minutes, and outside the occasional footstep of a passer-by still hurrying on life's business? Wonderful to have done with everything, to have it all behind one, settled, lived through, endured
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Once the tension and self-absorption slip away, the true self engages with others and knows the exhilaration of simply “being”
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" The ice seemed to melt before my eyes, the tension slip away from his mouth, his brow
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Gracie and April glanced at each other and their eyes asked if they should accept the offer or slip away at the first opportunity
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wished that it were possible to slip away and return with a large
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Next morning, bright and early, he was on the flight to Marseilles and watched the island of Malta slip away behind him
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slip away as time passes
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she would slip away from the house to care for the sick
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Why the true love of your life always seems to slip away
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prince; Black Francis had wanted to slip away early in the
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As eager as he was to leave he had to wait for those over by the fire to fall asleep before he and Kim could slip away
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I treated her spitefully and with her soul wounded beyond repair she began to slip away from us
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After all the hubbub had died down and everyone was thinking more about the wedding than anything else Roric managed to slip away with the Bible
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but this time he could not afford to let his prey slip away
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Janelle let out a curse, not caring that she was letting the mask slip away
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Everything I loved about her was starting to slip away from the little girl I loved so much
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I prayed Cassius would use it to slip away, but he never did anything the easy way
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"There's so little of her, I'm afraid to say much, for fear she will slip away altogether, though she is not so shy as she used to be," began their father cheerfully
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March to smile and slip away, well pleased with the success of her suggestion
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I repented having tried this second entrance, and was almost inclined to slip away before he finished cursing, but ere I could execute that intention, he ordered me in, and shut and re-fastened the door
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All of it, together, was horrifying, and the small amount of courage Thomas had gathered began to slip away
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Ronald Reagan, asleep, is struggling to breathe, unaware that his daughter Patti sits atop his old desk, watching him slip away
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He profited by this distraction to slip away among the crowd, without even thanking the worthy priests who accompanied him
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"Now then," said Andrea, while dressing himself, "I'll wait till he leaves, and then I'll slip away
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' "Rowsby Woof tried to slip away, but his master grabbed him by the collar, tied him by a bit of string he had in his pocket and led him home
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” It made perfectly good sense and it was in perfect accordance—well, almost perfect, given the hacked state of Merlin’s software—with Federation law, yet every time Owl used either form of address, Merlin felt a little more of the human being he’d once been slip away from him
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‘You have killed a bear, I’ve been told!’ said Kitty, trying assiduously to catch with her fork a perverse mushroom that would slip away, and setting the lace quivering over her white arm
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We shall slip away into the darkness of the gulf before the Esmeralda rebels arrive; and by the time the day breaks over the ocean we shall be out of sight, invisible, hidden by Azuera, which itself looks from the Sulaco shore like a faint blue cloud on the horizon
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Svidrigaïlov was silently watching and scrutinising him and, what struck Raskolnikov at once, seemed to be meaning to get up and slip away unobserved
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After the first time he did heroin, though, in the slant-ceilinged manager’s office of that record store, he would spend the rest of his week calculating how he could slip away as soon as possible to swim down into himself, into the delicious blankness of that canvas, again
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After the Reading of the Articles and the Swearing-in of the Pyrates, the Festivities resum’d upon the Deck and Lancelot and I were able to slip away to the Great Cabin to speak most privily
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He watched the sky slip away
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She’d counted on this as being her opportunity to slip away, but there was no crowd here
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I manufactured an excuse to slip away so I could see what was in the study, and Verity likewise went snooping—quite independently from my activities, I assure you
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Long-term investors are forced to ride bear markets into the ground, anxiously watching their net worth slip away as the indexes grind down day after day
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Rostopchin was so pleased with the fine role of leader of popular feeling, and had grown so used to it, that the necessity of relinquishing that role and abandoning Moscow without any heroic display took him unawares and he suddenly felt the ground slip away from under his feet, so that he positively did not know what to do
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And then, it was clear that she no longer loved him, since she had departed thus without warning, without a word, without a letter, although she knew his address! What was the good of living, and why should he live now? And then, what! should he retreat after going so far? should he flee from danger after having approached it? should he slip away after having come and peeped into the barricade? slip away, all in a tremble, saying: "After all, I have had enough of it as it is
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I let Driscoll slip away from the ship
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And when they touched her, now, she remembered to—slip away
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And when they touched her, now, she remembered to--slip away