Which preposition to use with slacks

of Occurrences 26%

Having manned our craft, we purchased a colossal refrigerator in which to put our Bass and Weak Fish, laid in a stock of cold provisionsamong other things a Cold Shoulderplenty of exhilarating beverages, and, with Buoyant Spirits, (every Man of us,) and plenty of ice on board, started on the slack of the Morning Tide.

in Occurrences 14%

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.

at Occurrences 7%

I would cause you such work, as you should have small reason to reproach me with being slack at work.

on Occurrences 5%

To-night her eyelids lay shut, slack on her eyes, and Adeline thought "She's really asleep, the little lamb.

for Occurrences 4%

He never slacked for a moment or seemed to have a moment to spare till the day was done.

with Occurrences 4%

So it is slacked with water, which it drinks in, heating itself and the water till it steams and swells in bulk, because it takes the substance of the water into its own substance.

to Occurrences 2%

He up the Gate Slack to my black cousin Bess: Guess ye

like Occurrences 1%

Dreary days, because the mind, relieved of its sweet toil, flaps loose and slack like a drooping sail.

about Occurrences 1%

Well, it won't be very long before your legs will give way under you and the slack about your wrists will keep you from helping yourself.

from Occurrences 1%

She had been at this business a good while before we were caught by the other end, and when they got near enough to us for their engines to be able to take up the slack from the bottom between us and them, then of course they pulled upon us, and we began to move.

inside Occurrences 1%

(He buttoned his braces over it, and tucked its slack inside the waistband of his trousers.)

aboard Occurrences 1%

"Things are pretty slack aboard a South American trader, and they don't do more than they can help.

through Occurrences 1%

Truly, my limbs do grow slack through abiding idly here.

under Occurrences 1%

His forefeet and his left hindfoot were free, and as Kazan advanced, he drew back, so that the trap-chain was slack under his body.

Which preposition to use with  slacks