 | Maurice Garland Fulton - 1914 - 556 頁
...only by work; meantime you must wait for your reward. Further, this future is never perfectly certain. There is many a slip between the cup and the lip, and even when gross accidents are avoided, your goal, — your promotion, your home, the degree for which... | |
 | Charles Taze Russell - 1914 - 728 頁
...Muscovite protection. But he has thus far refrained from yielding to their solicitations, realizing that there is many a slip between the cup and the lip, and that, if he were once voluntarily to surrender his crown, many things might interfere to prevent his... | |
 | Richard Clarke Cabot - 1914 - 370 頁
...only by work: meantime you must wait for your reward. Further, this future is never perfectly certain. There is many a slip between the cup and the lip ; and even when gross accidents are avoided, your goal — your promotion, your home, the degree for which... | |
 | William Henslow Hooker - 1916 - 168 頁
...where things are called by fancy names. The wording of an invoice should be the same as in the indent. There is many a slip between the cup and the lip, and between suppliers and consignees there are many hands through whom invoices have to pass. For months... | |
 | Sir Thomas Lauder Brunton - 1916 - 766 頁
...heat as would have sufficed to carry it through very great exertions. But there is an old proverb that there is many a slip between the cup and the lip, and any amount of water in a cup will not quench a man's thirst unless he gets it into his mouth ; and... | |
 | Charles David Stewart - 1922 - 388 頁
...Prohibition did not go through? What if, despite its present promise, the Amendment failed to pass? There is many a slip between the cup and the lip; and this applies to water as well as wine. The outcome had seemed quite certain to him, especially as liquor... | |
 | Sir R. Venkata Ratnam - 1924 - 520 頁
...thought that the arrangement intended would be easily accomplished. But as the old proverb has it, " there is many a slip between the cup and the lip " ; and it was, in this case, a slip of a whole decade. A person who had first been thought of in 1894 was eventually,... | |
 | Lady Augusta Stanley - 1927 - 384 頁
...white looking very well, and accompanied by the family. By this time I was longing for my coffee, but there is many a slip between the cup and the lip, and this I was destined to experience, for in came Seabrook and recited an ode of his own in honour of... | |
 | 1895 - 748 頁
...purpose, for I wanted you to make sure of one or the other. Well, take my advice about Sir Henry. Remember there is many a slip between the cup and the lip, and that out of sight is apt to be out of mind. Don'i " ' How can I tell you when I don't tinoiu, aunt... | |
 | 1908 - 1088 頁
...same time I think the Nationalist party in Egypt are fully alive to the truth of the saying that ' there is many a slip between the cup and the lip,' and are aware that, however high their hopes may run, the conversion of Turkey into a State ruled by a... | |
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There is many a slip between the cup and the lip, and before the spring much may be changed. 
