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I had slidden down the balusters when I was a boy, and thought nothing of it, but to slide down the balusters in a railway-train is a thing to make one's flesh creep.

From A Tramp Abroad — Volume 05 by Twain, Mark

He sat with bowed head, softly caressing the white jewelled hand which had slidden down from his shoulder.

From That Unfortunate Marriage, Vol. 2 by Trollope, Frances Eleanor

Mabel had slidden from the bed when her father appeared, and the two girls now stood by him, as if by their presence they could console him and share his sorrow.

From Englefield Grange or Mary Armstrong's Troubles by Paull, H. B.

He had slidden to the end of his tether,—the other end of which was fast to the drogue drifting about in the sea, as already said, on the opposite side of the carcass.

From The Ocean Waifs A Story of Adventure on Land and Sea by Reid, Mayne

He had slidden back into his warm place, smiling to himself, and fallen into a sleep as quiet as that of a child.

From The Puritans by Bates, Arlo