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slip out

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? slip out
vi
(= leave unobtrusively)kurz weggehen or rausgehen
(= be revealed)herauskommen; the secret slipped outdas Geheimnis ist ihm/ihr etc herausgerutscht


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At length, all but a score, who had apparently been left to prevent our escape, had left us, and our adventure seemed destined to result in a siege, the only outcome of which could be our death by starvation; for even should we be able to slip out after dark, whither in this unknown and hostile valley could we hope to turn our steps toward possible escape?
You are to figure in the neighborhood from which you came as a man who has disappeared,--as a man, in short, who has found it impossible to pay his way and has preferred simply to slip out of his place.
I mean the opera in which the two nuns slip out of the convent, and go to the ball.
 
 
 
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