1 Business is pretty slack, to begin with, and then I'm fixing up a little house for Ned and Ruth when they're married.
2 Although born to the ease of plantation life, waited on hand and foot since infancy, the faces of the three on the porch were neither slack nor soft.
3 Pork, the only trained house negro on the place, had general supervision over the other servants, but even he had grown slack and careless after several years of exposure to Gerald's happy-go-lucky mode of living.
4 His eyes were closed and his face had a look of slack, unearthly peace.
5 He sat staring at her, gray faced, the reins slack in his hands.
6 His big body with its hard swelling muscles looked soft and slack and his waist line began to thicken.
7 It was the holiday rush that was over, the girls said in answer to Marija's inquiries; after that there was always a slack.
8 Jurgis had only about sixty dollars in the bank, and the slack season was upon them.
9 And now for an instant the men stood, their rifles slack in their hands, and watched the regiment dwindle.
10 Her slack hands fell lifeless by her side.
11 Then their lord yokes his wild horses with gold and fastens the foaming bits, and letting all the reins run slack in his hand, flies lightly in his sea-coloured chariot over the ocean surface.
12 The Queen herself seemed to call the winds and spread her sails, and even now let her sheets run slack.
13 Many watch the retreat and slack of the sea, and leap boldly into the shoal water; others slide down the oars.
14 Nor is Turnus slack to follow; he overleaps the barriers and springs across the high gangways.
15 But his limbs grow slack and chill, and the life with a moan flies indignantly into the dark.