| But there's many a slip twixt cup and lip, especially in the gold mining business. |
| Thereon he lashed his horses and they flew forward nothing loth midway twixt earth and starry heaven. |
| Twixt doleful songs, tears, and sad elegies, Such as old grandames, watching by the dead, Are wont to outwear the night with. |
| There is of course many a slip twixt the cup and the lip but really it borders on the impossible to visualise them slipping up this time. |
| But there's many a slip twixt cup and lip as one goes from generalities to specifics. |
| Twixt rugged rocks did I suddenly stand alone, dreary in the dreariest moonlight. |
