Example Sentences

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The hollow grooves were full of mud and water, and one struggled slipperily from rock to rock, or along narrow grass-ledges.

From The Lost Girl by Lawrence, D. H. (David Herbert)

There is nothing so slipperily alluring as sadness; we become sad in the first place by having nothing stirring to do; we continue in it, because we have found a snug sofa at last.

From Pierre; or The Ambiguities by Melville, Herman