slip out

• “I gesture I guess? and slip out of my chair and, in a knee-destroying crouch, make my way to the screen door.”

  Simon & Schuster: MY EMPIRE OF DIRT

• “He stopped suddenly, jolted, as he watched her slip out of Wendall Clayton's office, looking around carefully as if she didn't want to be seen.”

  Mistress of Justice

• “I could not think why I had allowed it to slip out in front of Rahel, but no, I did not wish to risk sleep.”

  O Jerusalem

• “There was said to be a great aunt in Providence…She could not slip out once Adele Tremont returned.”

  Simon & Schuster: City of Glory

• “I bethought myself to go upstairs and see how the dying woman sped, who lay there almost unheeded: the very servants paid her but a remittent attention: the hired nurse, being little looked after, would slip out of the room whenever she could.”

  Jane Eyre: an autobiography, Vol. II.

• “He was the best of 'em, the Switzer - consoling, ain't it, that it's always the good 'uns who stop the shot, while fellows like me slip out from under?”

  Flashman and the angel of the lord

• “He would simply bide his time and slip out of Nabol Hold the same way he'd gotten in.”

  Dragon Drums

• “While he packs the steel gray doe and the Chinchilla buck for transport, I slip out to the truck and return with Doe #1.”

  Simon & Schuster: MY EMPIRE OF DIRT

• “Has it ever happened before -- or since -- that a celebrated person who had spent exactly half of a fairly long life in the village where he was born and reared, was able to slip out of this world and leave that village voiceless and gossipless behind him -- utterly voiceless, utterly gossipless?”

  Is Shakespeare Dead?

• “Success bred ever more success, and that in turn allowed me to slip out of a present-time perspective and comfortably into a future one.”

  Simon & Schuster: The Time Paradox

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