When it reached the end of the slack there was a jerk that shook the bark from stem to stern.
We had already laid our mainsail aback and as the line lay slack upon the water, Captain Rogers motioned to the men at the windlass to wind in.
I fastened the boat, and then, with the oars on my shoulder and the slack of the codline in my hand, start him up the shell road.
Travis flexed his upper arms, and the slack gained by Kaydessa's action made the lariat give again.
The lean brown face was half turned, one cheek in the sand, but the slack mouth, the closed eyes were those, Travis believed, of a dead man.
He that will retain and hold fast the doctrine of redemption, and so by that have, through faith, an inlet into all the abounding mercy of God, must not deal in God's matters with a slack hand.
She stopped several times on this morning to mend breaks and to tighten slack wires, so it was late when she found the herd at West Run.
With the slack of the lariat she ran forward, caught a kicking hind foot, then entangled one of the beast's forefeet, and drew both together with all her strength.
She drew in theslack at once; but her strength was not sufficient to drag the steer back to earth.
She had gathered in the slack of the broken lariat and she swung it sharply across the pony's face, leaping sideways to avoid him.
Ford gathered the slack reins, and Miss Adair looked up and gave a little shriek.
They must have cut it up yonder by the telegraph tent and the slack has sagged down this way.
You can lie there in your boat, in the slack water near the crag foot, and hear nothing but the wind, the suck of the water, or the tinkle of a scrap of stone falling from the cliff face.
Buck swung to the right, ending the movement in a plunge that took up the slack and with a sudden jerk arrested his one hundred and fifty pounds.
The Lord is not slack concerning His promise, as some men count slackness; but is long-suffering to us ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.
The Lord is not slack concerning His promise, as some men count slackness; but is long-suffering to us ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.
In the case of an absolutely new opera insufficiency of rehearsal may be pardoned; but it is not a sign of good management when the performance of stock classics is allowed to become slack and indifferent.
These people had had missionaries among them, and most of them were Christians; but the French had sent the missionaries away, and they had become somewhat slack in their religion.
I thought this would have made them bowse on the slack of their jaw-tackles, but they were banded together, and fancied they could say what they liked to me.
But the Americans, who naturally suspected other things than slack inspection, thought a mine had been sprung on them after the fight was over.
Sheaffe appears to have been a slack inspector of powder-magazines.
In that case, we had best slack out the sheet a little, and take up our post on the weather bow of the Admiral, so that we can signal to him if we find water failing.
Besides, all the vessels that have been lying in the Pool since June will want painting up and getting into trim again before they sail out of the river, so things may not be so slack after all.
I knew what he meant and rushing to the starboard tiller rope, caught the slack from the hand of the man who stood there and ran it through the pulley with all the strength and quickness I could muster.
With great difficulty I reached the larboard tackle and hand over hand gathered the slack of it in until both gearings pulled alternately so that she seemed to be going aright.
And when the rubbish is alive, if it be but vermin, I cannot slack to feel compassion for it.
But now, with so slack an hand did the King rule, that not only Sir Roger gat free of the Tower by bribing one of his keepers and drugging the rest, but twenty good days at the least were lost while he stale down to the coast and so won away.
Child, I ain' know noslack eatin' 'round my ole Missus.
Miss Susan ain' 'low fa noslack way 'round whey she was.
Seeing it was our last chance we kept away in the slack much further down, then started across keeping the line on our weather beam and the tide on the lee-bow, we slowly drifted crab-wise across the broad stretch of river.
Incapable of keying his instrument too high, he will be satisfied with a slack string and abominable flatness.
The intense power and energy called forth by the first thrilling vision grow slackfor want of incentive.
A slack day in a way, although I have been on my feet since early morning.
It will be readily seen, then, that the flow of the current will be slack about the time of high and low water, so that its maximum rate will be at half-ebb and half-flood.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "slack" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
