Her pace gradually slackened in the growing heat; but she went forward with her eyes fixed on the littered, sunken flags of their path.

The cruiser still had way on; the momentum of her ten-ton weight scarcely had slackened, and she answered the helm.

We spent the whole of the day, however, on deck, and purposely slackened the speed of the boat, which usually travels some thirty miles an hour, in order to enjoy the effect and observe the details of the landscape.

Because we could no longer see as many targets before us, the fire was slackened considerably, and then some one on the outer lines of our defensive circle shouted: "They are bringin' up the Tories!

" He pursued his way grumbling, and insensibly slackened his pace as he drew near home.

If this is suspected, the mother must not be content with merely slackening the strings; the child should be undressed, and the creases and folds of the hot skin, especially those about the thighs and groins, examined, to see that no powder has caked, and, becoming hard, irritated the parts.

By a stroke of luck I must have crushed my opponent's hand against one of the bars, for with a cry of pain he momentarily slackened his grip.

The leadera grim, bluff Nestor of a dogglanced carelessly over his shoulder and very perceptibly slackened his pace.

Second, when a playwright gets into the habit of talking around his characters, he inevitably, even if unconsciously, slackens his endeavour to make them express themselves as completely as may be in their own proper medium of dramatic action and dialogue.

The speed of the train slackened steadily but without jar, until the power of the compressed air clamped the brake-shoes on the wheels

Subscriptions to the loan began to slacken, alarmingly.

Second, when a playwright gets into the habit of talking around his characters, he inevitably, even if unconsciously, slackens his endeavour to make them express themselves as completely as may be in their own proper medium of dramatic action and dialogue.

Miss Drewitt slackened her pace deliberately.

Rowing up the river, which graciously slackened its swift current, Aeneas presently caught sight of the walls and citadel, and landed just beyond the point where the Aventine hill falls steeply almost to the water's edge.

Second, when a playwright gets into the habit of talking around his characters, he inevitably, even if unconsciously, slackens his endeavour to make them express themselves as completely as may be in their own proper medium of dramatic action and dialogue.

On the other hand, her antagonist had lost both main and mizen-top-masts, and her fire had materially slackened within the last fifteen minutes.