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" There is many a slip between the cup and the lip, and before the spring much may be changed. "
Who Shall be Greatest?: A Tale - Pàgina 64
per Mary Botham Howitt - 1841 - 178 pàgines
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The Lady's Magazine: Or Entertaining Companion for the Fair Sex ..., Volum 38

John Huddlestone Wynne - 1807 - 744 pàgines
...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...
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Castle Harcourt; or, The days of king Richard the third

L F. Winter - 1825 - 784 pàgines
...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...
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The New sporting magazine, Volum 4

1842 - 530 pàgines
...to 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...
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Memoirs of a sergeant, late in the forty-third light infantry regiment ...

Memoirs - 1835 - 460 pàgines
...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...
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Personal Narrative of a Tour Through the Western States of Rajwara in 1835 ...

A. H. E. Boileau - 1837 - 382 pàgines
...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...
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The New Monthly Belle Assemblée, Volum 33

468 pàgines
...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...
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A Three Years' Cruize in the Mozambique Channel: For the Suppression of the ...

Frederick Lamport Barnard - 1848 - 344 pàgines
...no 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,...
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Five Years of a Hunter's Life in the Far Interior of South Africa ..., Volum 2

Roualeyn Gordon-Cumming - 1850 - 328 pàgines
...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...
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Mary and Mildred; or, Principle the guide of impulse

Stair Douglas - 1852 - 192 pàgines
...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....
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Five Years of a Hunter's Life in the Far Interior of South Africa ..., Volum 2

Roualeyn Gordon-Cumming - 1855 - 422 pàgines
...I 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...
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