 | John Huddlestone Wynne - Advice columns - 1807 - 744 pages
...hurried: it imist be many months before I can marry. "Consider ho* fhort an acijuaintance.' '"1 consider there is many a slip between the cup and the lip ; and if you considet my advice, or your o\v« inteiest,' you \vHl not stand shillyjdally. _Girla without... | |
 | L F. Winter - Historical fiction, English - 1825 - 784 pages
...not so much for the sake of speedily going round to keep his appointment, as from the recollection that there is " many a slip between the cup and the lip;" and that Alfred might be discovered by some of the fraternity, and arrested in his passage, a circumstance... | |
 | 1842 - 530 pages
...take her in tow. It was, of course, naturally expected that the Mystery would bear away the Cup; but" there is many a slip between the cup and the lip," and so it proved in this instance, for in Northfleet Hope, the iron binding of the Mystery's dead eyes... | |
 | Memoirs - 1835 - 460 pages
...column of whom were rapidly descending into the town. Coming down in haste I found the dinner ready, but there is many a slip between the cup and the lip ; and, reaching across the table, which was ready garnished, I swept the whole — utensils, food, and all... | |
 | A. H. E. Boileau - Bikaner (Princely State) - 1837 - 382 pages
...Jesulmer, and the Rawul left his capital at the same time. All difficulties now seemed to be at an end, but there is many a slip between the cup and the lip, and so it nearly proved on the present occasion ; for before half the first march was completed, an ill-omened... | |
 | Fashion - 468 pages
...have a good look at her. His reasoning was just, and the idea not bad; but, as the old proverb says, "There is many a slip between the cup and the lip ;" and so Master Harry Crawford found to his cost. 141 anything of the sort, like a shot over her ears, right... | |
 | Mary Botham Howitt - Avarice - 1841 - 252 pages
...estates and fine places cheap ! " To all which her husband would reply, " We shall see in time, but there is many a slip between the cup and the lip ; and you must remember that, although Browne has one child, we have five, and four of them boys, and who... | |
 | Frederick Lamport Barnard - Madagascar - 1848 - 342 pages
...doubt anticipated from the report of his more fortunate brothers in arms, a similar " blow out;" but there is many a slip between the cup and the lip, and our time and steam being precious, he got nothing but expressions of regret that he had not come before,... | |
 | Roualeyn Gordon-Cumming - Hunting - 1850 - 328 pages
...would not have life enough left to show a good fight when the dogs came up. It has been truly said that there is many a slip between the cup and the lip, and the truth of this old saying I was about most bitterly to experience. In half an hour the Bushman came... | |
 | Stair Douglas - 1852 - 192 pages
...almost fancy that we touch it ; afterwards, when we are older, we have learnt to calculate more truly that ' ' There is many a slip Between the cup and the lip ;" and to look round for probabilities which may occur to prevent that scheme from ever becoming a reality.... | |
| |
There is many a slip between the cup and the lip, and before the spring much may be changed. 
