"Slackening" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... want to bother with work for this beautiful afternoon?" inquired Will, slackening ...
— Happy Days for Boys and Girls • Various
... but the driver of our carriage came to my rescue. Slackening his pace for a moment, he leaned over and spoke. I could not hear what he said, so I put my head out of the window. He wanted to know where we wished to be set down. I told ...
— The Moon and Sixpence • W. Somerset Maugham
... silver-toned trumpets had sounded close beside her. A moment more, and a huge automobile appeared from behind the trees and shrubbery, and slackening its speed, came, at last, to a standstill, and an old lady leaned ...
— Dorothy Dainty at the Mountains • Amy Brooks
... ease it inwards as the waist is eased By slackening of the slid clasp on it! How soft the silk is-gracious color too; Violet shadows like new veins thrown up Each arm, and gold to fleck the faint sweet green Where the wrist lies thus eased. I am right glad I have ...
— Chastelard, a Tragedy • Algernon Charles Swinburne
... civilisation is the covert. The immediate outcome of civilisation is reserve and— nous voila. Are we not increasing our educational facilities with a blind insistence day by day? One wonders what three generations of cheap education will do for the world. Already a middle-aged man can note the slackening of the human tie. Railway directors, and other persons whose pockets benefit by the advance of civilisation, talk a vast deal of rubbish about bringing together the peoples of the world. You can connect them, ...
— The Grey Lady • Henry Seton Merriman
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