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Frank J. Wilstach, comp. A Dictionary of Similes. 1916.

Slip

Slip away like shadows into shade.
—Philip James Bailey

Slips on like the lapse of water.
—Edward Bulwer-Lytton

Slip frae me like a knotless thread.
—Robert Burns

Slipped from his fingers, like drops of quicksilver.
—F. Marion Crawford

Time slipping by you, as if it was an animal at rustic sports with his tail soaped.
—Charles Dickens

Slippes as a dew-drop slips from some flower-cup o’erweighted.
—Edward Dowden

Slip like bending rushes from your hand.
—John Dryden

Slipped like a shadow.
—Bret Harte

Slips like water through a sieve.
—Thomas Hood

Slipp’d me like his greyhound,
Which runs himself and catches for his master.
—William Shakespeare

All earthly things are doomed to fall away and slip back into Chaos, like a boatman who just manages to make head against the stream, if the tension of his arms happens to relax, and the current whirls away the boat headlong down the river’s bed.
—Virgil