The doubt slackened my pace, and he gained on me.

As that day ended, which the Italians always afterwards spoke of as "il giorno quindici" (the fifteenth day), the firing on both sides in our sector slackened, though our guns were seldom silent for more than an hour at a time, and the Austrians still carried out sudden bursts of vicious fire in our neighbourhood.

"No, I don't believe that is the reason they've slackened their speed, Andy.

Here Mahomet and Abu Bekr, henceforward known as the "Second of Two," remained until the fierceness of the pursuit slackened.

From now he may be said to pass under the tyranny of war, and its remorseless urging was never slackened until he had his own native city within his power.

They observed that as the Sioux approached it, he slackened his pace, when suddenly he gave a loud cry and ran towards the village.

I have in certain cases suspended or slackened these expenditures, that the Legislature might determine whether so many yards are necessary as have been contemplated.

As it drew nearer its speed slackened, and he saw it hug the curb and stop at his door.

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

The Emperor glanced back at me, and slackened his pace a little so that I came within arm's length of him.

It was now well after midnight, and the firing on both sides had slackened considerably, although there was still an irregular rattle of rifle fire, the distant boom of a gun and the scream of its shell passing overhead.

Because the depression they were in shallowed and afforded less cover as it ran towards the British lines, it was safer for the party to stay where they were until the fire slackened enough to give them a fair sporting chance of crawling back in safety.

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

More and more were we trained to work alone; our leading-strings were slackened, so that we never felt them save when we blundered; and I remember that when I once complained, in loving fashion, that she was "teaching me so little", she told me that I was getting old enough to be trusted to work by myself, and that I must not expect to "have Auntie for a crutch all through life".

The colonel slackened his pace, surprised that his horse should so soon begin to drip and pantAlice, familiar with the road, in the mean time riding a mile ahead.

Seven of his men were down, but as the attack grew fiercer upon his side it slackened upon the others, and the seigneur with his son and Du Lhut brought ten men to reinforce them.

Their fire gradually slackened, and at last, save for a dropping shot here and there, it died away altogether.

For forty days, like a winged thing She went before the gale, Nor all that time we slackened speed, Turned helm, or altered sail.

They never rode through a wood without having an adventure, and it was always doing good, wasn't it, granny?" Conversation never slackened when the boys were present, and Mrs. Bertram, though shrinking at all times from their high spirits and love of fun, yet looked forward every day to their short visit.

" As they neared the house, Roy's pace slackened.

The noise on deck soon ceasedthe cannon were again pliedgradually the fire slackened, and we could hear that the pirate had scraped clear and escaped.

The man we noticed slackened his pace, feeling that he was "on his own ground."

"The chief officer ordered a good many of the sails to be taken in, for they were only uselessly straining the masts, but there were enough left to move her in case the power of the current, or whatever it was that stopped her, had slackened, and she steadily kept her position with the breeze abaft.

As their magazine-fire slackened, dwindled to a desultory popping, and ceased, the mob with a howl of triumph surged forward to the gaping gateway, trampled and scattered the glowing remnants of the fire, swarmed yelling through, andfound themselves face to face with a stout semicircular rampart of stone, earth and sandbags, which, loopholed, embrasured and strongly manned, spanned the gateway in a thirty-yard arc.

Twenty-five fathoms were hardly unrolled, when the rope suddenly slackened between Tom's hands.