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