65 examples of slackness in sentences

Presently, he wriggles a little in the water, as though vexed at the slackness of offers; then he drops one of the hands and leaves the other outstretched.

"We have heard angry criticism and hints about slackness," he began.

But it was only here and there that a Mandell possessed a gun, many of which were broken, and there was a general slackness of powder and shells.

BACK AND LOINThe Back should be short, straight, and strong, with no appearance of slackness.

AND LOINBody moderately long; back should be strong and straight, with no appearance of slackness behind the shoulders; the loin broad and powerful, and slightly arched; ribs fairly sprung, rather deep than round, and well ribbed back.

Thus a good present Behaviour is an implicit Repentance for any Miscarriage in what is past; but present Slackness will not make up for past Activity.

uty, but these things tell with the magistrates and convey a general suggestion of slackness.

This results in an effort in Germany all the more strenuous in proportion to the former slackness regarding questions of artistic form.

But this time he ignored the gasp and the sudden cold slackness of the hands he held and went on speaking with hardly a pause.

Now and again the fat man paused in his vocal efforts to reprimand her for her slackness.

Exceptional negroes and mulattoes would be sure to thrive upon their new opportunities, but the generality of the blacks could be counted upon to relax into a greater slackness than they had previously been permitted to indulge in.

A young slave woman, Becky by name, had given pregnancy as the reason for a continued slackness in her work.

The magistrates and constables tended toward a similar slackness; while on the other hand the masters, easy-going as they might be in other concerns, were jealous of any infringements of their own dominion or any abuse of their slaves whether by private persons or public functionaries.

Kind of heart and warm of soul though she was, she saw no reason for letting these excellent qualities cover any slackness or breach of observance in the social form of life to which she had been accustomed.

Any slackness in finding out which beliefs are the true ones would have to be answered for before the throne of Almighty God, at the sure risk and peril of everlasting damnation.

But she said no more of burning words, or of eloquence, or of the slackness of the work of those who work as though they were not in earnest.

Dissatisfied with an assurance of the FIRST COMMISSIONER OF WORKS that he was doing his best to get the War Office to clear away their hutments he burst out, "Could he not attempt to use some disciplinary action against the obstinacy, the stupidity, the slackness, the carelessness of those who are responsible?"

But be bids us remember that the time was one of great credulity, of slackness and incapacity in dealing with matters of evidence, a time when it might be said that there was an innocent disregard of exact and literal truth where men's souls and affections were deeply interested.

They clos'd full fast on ev'ry side, No Slackness

The year 1886 was a terrible one for labour, everywhere reductions of wages, everywhere increase of the numbers of the unemployed; turning over the pages of Our Corner, I see "Socialist Notes" filled, month after month, with a monotonous tale, "there is a reduction of wages at" such and such a place; so many "men have been discharged at -, owing to the slackness of trade."

They showed the strong reaction against slackness of fibre in the religious life; against the poverty, softness; restlessness, worldliness, the blunted and impaired sense of truth, which reigned with little check in the recognised fashions of professing Christianity; the want of depth both of thought and feeling; the strange blindness to the real sternness, nay the austerity, of the New Testament.

As to the expense in suing out the writ, and also the slackness of bailiffs, etc., in executing it, see [R. Cosen], An Apologie of and for Sundrie proceedings by Jurisdiction Ecclesiasticall (1st ed., London, 1591), 64-5.

Ann., i, 404-6 ("If the ordinarie shall perceave that, either by slackness of the justices or waywardness of juries," recusants cannot be indicated at quarter sessions, then the ordinary shall, after first trying persuasion, excommunicate the culprits, and after forty days procure the writ against them).

Need it is That for that fell assault of his, That rout inflicted, and self-scorn Immoderate in noble natures, torn By sense of being through slackness overborne

"I am not quite sureshe was stirring up his public spirit, I think, about the drainage; and they were both of them deploring the slackness and insensibility of the corporation, and canvassing for Mr. Whitlock, as I believe.

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