This kept the Roman soldiers from slipping and sliding in battle. It helped them to stand their ground.
Cross the chain over the noseband of the halter. This will prevent the chain from slipping down on the horse's nose when pressure is released.
Bean never felt claustrophobic in Battle School. Not even on Eros, where the low ceilings of the Buggers' tunnels teetered over them like a car slipping off its jack.
The missing beauty, always pleasant to the taste, so that the pain will always linger in the heart, once thought, the past is a cloud smoke, cloud smoke easy to scatter, the heart is playing the umbrella, is the thunderstorm slipping after the fall of sorrow, or originally missing for the people themselves, too and heavy.
It's a deep, soft pop, like a cork slipping free from a wine bottle.
But the overall timetable is slipping. There is no consensus on who should supervise the largest financial firms.
Backache may affect you if the base of your spine is particularly supple, sometimes as a result of one vertebra slipping on another.
Soft non-skid rubber keeps portables from slipping.
At the roadside his colleagues are slipping into blue coveralls and tall rubber boots, putting on helmets.
His is the dietthat refuses to die, slipping in and out of favor every few years, persistently bucking the skepticism of mainstream nutritionists.
Because we calculated here the requirement for just not slipping.
What are we to make of the painful, unresolved dissonances, the false relations and harmonic slide-slipping?
I hailed a cab and ran into the ladies' room of the Starbucks on his corner, slipping off my thong under my skirt and stuffing it in my purse.
The "cat" and the "rat" were easy to fix but the "mice" kept slipping out of her hairpins in an exasperating manner.
He gave his sock a hitch when he fell it slipping down.
Does it not run the risk of slipping into a variety of ethical humanism?
I'm already crawling backwards, my hands slipping, my shoes slipping on the linoleum, and my ass wiping a clean path across the dirty Moor away from Marla and the fridge.
Popping in a comma can be like slipping on the necklace that gives an outfit quiet elegance, or like catching the sound of running water that complements as it completes the silence of a Japanese landscape.
With the sun slipping behind the mountains of western Rio, Inspetora DE Mello was inching down a tight-alleyway with her male colleagues, scanning each house for possible targets.
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