"Slipperiness" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... are constructed with a view to keep out the intense heat of the summer sun. The coachmen are generally blacks, and the horses are stout animals, with cropped tails. The majority have broken knees, owing to the great slipperiness of ...
— The Englishwoman in America • Isabella Lucy Bird
... flannel, wet it all over with milk and rub it well with a dry cloth, when a most beautiful polish will be brought out. Some persons use for rubbing a well-waxed flannel; but this in general produces an unpleasant slipperiness, which is not ...
— The Book of Household Management • Mrs. Isabella Beeton |
