"Slip of the tongue" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... say so?" said Catharine, carelessly. "It was a slip of the tongue, my dear count. I should have said TAKES, not HAS; for many people fancy they have what they would like to take. I should have said then, that the king cannot TAKE more interest in my death than I do in ...
— Joseph II. and His Court • L. Muhlbach
... out," Tom burst out laughing. "Darry, by that slip of the tongue you admitted that you've been eating too much and that you're all ...
— The Grammar School Boys in Summer Athletics • H. Irving Hancock
... Icaromenippus (in which Menippus represents him), A literary Prometheus, Herodotus, Zeuxis, Harmonides, The Scythian, The Death of Peregrine, The Book-fancier, Demonax, The Rhetorician's Vade mecum, Dionysus, Heracles, A Slip of the Tongue, Apology for 'The dependent Scholar.' Of these The Vision is a direct piece of autobiography; there is intentional but veiled autobiography in several of the other pieces; in others again conclusions ...
— Works, V1 • Lucian of Samosata
... occasion, it is said that Major Drayton, hearing of his neighbor's serious illness, rode over to make inquiry about him, and owing to a slip of the tongue, asked in a voice of deepest sympathy, "Any hopes ...
— The Christmas Peace - 1908 • Thomas Nelson Page
... "Agrippa," which is nonsense. By a slip of the tongue, Nero was going to say "Agrippina's death," when he hastily corrected himself. Tacitus and Suetonius tell us that Nero was always haunted with the memory of his ...
— Old English Plays, Vol. I - A Collection of Old English Plays • Various
... Carlist watch-fire, Senorita," answered the officer briskly, and no one seemed to notice his slip of the tongue except Sarrion, who glanced at him and then decided not to remind him that the title no longer applied ...
— The Velvet Glove • Henry Seton Merriman |
