1 But others swarm up; nor meanwhile do stones nor any sort of missile slacken.
2 Together all set their sheets, and all at once slacken their canvas to left and again to right; together they brace and unbrace the yard-arms aloft; prosperous gales waft the fleet along.
3 As if by agreement, the leaders began to slacken their speed.
4 It was already beginning to slacken, with a slack sort of thinness, almost withered, going old before it had ever really lived.
5 Suddenly the threads that moved them began to slacken and become entangled and it grew difficult to move.
6 D'Artagnan imagined that on arriving in town the duke would slacken his pace, but it was not so.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre DumasContext Highlight In 21 THE COUNTESS DE WINTER 7 One or two of these passers-by slackened their pace to glance curiously at her lonely figure; but she was hardly conscious of their scrutiny.
8 But her high spirits slackened as she beheld them form in dress parade, in a long, silent, uneasy circle clear round the living-room.
9 Peeping from the covers she saw his teeth pinch his lower lip, saw him scowl as he slackened and sawed and jerked sharply again at the racing horses.
10 When the news had been told and their enthusiasm had slackened she looked about and was proud to be able to point out a senator, to explain the cleverness of the canopied garden.
11 Meantime, at the first tap of the boat's bottom, the Lakeman had slackened the line, so as to drop astern from the whirlpool; calmly looking on, he thought his own thoughts.
Moby Dick By Herman MelvilleContext Highlight In CHAPTER 54. The Town-Ho's Story. 12 It was my turn to stand at the foremast-head; and with my shoulders leaning against the slackened royal shrouds, to and fro I idly swayed in what seemed an enchanted air.
Moby Dick By Herman MelvilleContext Highlight In CHAPTER 61. Stubb Kills a Whale. 13 Whole Atlantics and Pacifics seemed passed as they shot on their way, till at length the whale somewhat slackened his flight.
Moby Dick By Herman MelvilleContext Highlight In CHAPTER 61. Stubb Kills a Whale. 14 The agonized whale goes into his flurry; the tow-line is slackened, and the pitchpoler dropping astern, folds his hands, and mutely watches the monster die.
15 Mr. Merriman's laugh at this sally was such a genuine outburst and so contagious that it started the dinner with an agreeable swing that never slackened.