Military discipline and provost vigilance were at their slackest stage in the rebel lines at this triumphant epoch in the fortunes of the Confederacy.

It will tell your hearts especially in the case of this very Hospital for Consumption not to be slack in giving, because so much of what you will giveit is painful to recollect how muchwill be spent, not in prevention, not even in cure, but in mere alleviation, mere increased bodily ease, mere savoury food, even mere passing amusements for wearied minds.

They said, "If you had managed your mission well, the Sultan would have received your Address; your Consul is slack; the French Consul is more active, because he is not the Sultan's merchant.

[10] Among the most active members of the Committee were Mr. P.A. Taylor, M.P., always faithful and energetic in every assertion of the principles of liberty; Mr. Goldwin Smith, Mr. Frederic Harrison, Mr. Slack, Mr. Chamerovzow, Mr. Shaen, and Mr. Chesson, the Honorary Secretary of the Associat

"You ought to try the slack wire, too, when you get a chance," advised Benares.

But, as soon as the fact was ascertained, the overseer and miller made the pretence of a 'slack-time' in their work, and obtained permission to go to the Mohawk, on private concerns of their own.

He would love to show his capacity to the head of the Intelligence, and even more to that grim Chief who never forgot what was smart, or forgave what was slack.

Now 'tis slackest ebb of tide.

Hunting parties were common, cricket and hockey matches were frequent, and in the cold weather, which is our slackest season, fun, frolic, and sport was the order of the day.

" Adam got up and as he crossed the patio Kit noted that his shoulders were bent and his movement slack.

Production was slack, invention at a standstill, and taxation heavy.

I've gone slack on purpose because that's how I want to be till nine o'clock.

It didn't matter that she had gone slack and silent, because Sylvia, who just before supper had shown a disposition to dreamy elegiac melancholy, rebounded, as soon as she was filled with food, to the other end of the scale altogether and swept Rush after her into a boisterous romp, which none of Aunt Lucile's remonstrant asides to her nephew was effectual to quell.

The rope which tethered him hung slack, and this enabled the stallion to give impetus to his backward leap.

It gave in his hand, and the slack, wet length of it flew suddenly aboard, smacking his face with its cold and slimy end.

[Illustration: The slack length of it flew suddenly aboard] The lighthouse siren, though still distant, sounded nearer, which meant that the boat was drifting seaward.

A white-winged yacht lay offshore, her sails in slack folds.

Suddenly the line came slack.

* I knew that I was at Franz Josef Land, somewhere or other in the neighbourhood of C. Fligely (about 82° N.), and though it was so late, and getting cold, I still had the hope of reaching Spitzbergen that year, by alternately sailing all open water, and dragging the kayak over the slack drift-ice.

The ice here was quite slack, and I do not think I ever saw Arctic weather so bright and gay, the temperature at 41°.

Of course, the servants might not be slack, time-serving, unfaithful.

He is brave, but he is reckless, and the discipline of his troop is of the slackest.

Cromwell will attack us to-morrow, and will defeat us; his trained troops are more than a match for these Scotchmen, who think more of their preachers than of their officers, and whose discipline is of the slackest.

When lowering the water bottle on one occasion the line suddenly became slack at 100 metres, then after a moment's pause began to run out again.

This I have observed strikingly in the case of the three "slackest" male races I knowthe