When the lovely lady had gone perhaps ten steps down the aisle, her pace seemed to slacken all at once, and she suddenly glanced back over her shoulder.
The rockets had been put in their places to slacken the fall of the bullet upon the moon, and now the bold fellows were going to use them to provoke an exactly contrary effect.
These were important, for, powerfully loaded, they were meant to slacken the speed with which the projectile would, when attracted by the moon after passing the point of neutral attraction, fall upon her surface.
Between Beaugency and Les Aubrais the train seemed to slacken speed, though it still kept up its rhythmical, persistent rumbling, which the deafened pilgrims no longer even heard.
When the carriage had at last overtaken him Prada told the coachman to slacken speed, and then entered into conversation.
The horse had been obliged to slacken its pace, and Pierre, mastered by childish impatience, turned round to look at the city as by degrees it spread out and revealed itself behind him.
A fearful jolting and rattling of the stage ensued, and Jack was forced to slacken speed.
The train is bound to slacken speed when it goes around.
He knew it for a trick of tired eyes and a warning to slacken his labours.
But add to your difficulties the continual presence of an enemy, outnumbering you incalculably, always on the alert for you to slacken discipline for a second, and remember you are not marching to safety, but from it.
Plainly he wished the two riders to pass on, but he did notslacken his speed for a moment.
He was stripping himself to his underclothes while he talked: and in haste, fearing that he might feel the hawser slacken and dip--a sign that the tide had turned.
So uncontrollable did her inclination to merriment become, that she found at last the only way to keep from bursting into loud laughter was to slacken the curb, and go off at a canter--I mean, to laugh freely but gently.
If you turn your backs upon Apollyon, he will neverslacken pace until he has driven you into the troop of his dogs, to go howling about the walls of the city.
A shift of wind to the southward in the afternoon at length began gradually to slacken it, but it was not till six A.
But the other men did not halt, nor even slacken their pace, and Billy and I laughed a good deal to see Wabberley, who was much the fattest of them, yet easily outstrip the rest, so much did panic lend lightness to his heels.
This failure did notslacken our determination, and we soon thought of a more subtle trick, to which there was one drawback in the fact that we had no means of making a good torch, which seemed essential to it.
She watched Rickety slacken his run as that longdrawn yell began, so wild and high that it put a tingle in her nose.
She saw the lines slacken and hang loosely to every swing of the buckboard.
At last the breeze came; the schooner sidled and drew nearer in the dark; I felt the hawser slackenonce more, and with a good, tough effort, cut the last fibers through.
Thus then she spake with fawning words entangling him, right and left, around with her toils and meshes, and she began to shake the citadel of his soul, and to slacken his tension of purpose, and to soften the temper of his mind.
Bracy suddenly, for Gedge began to slacken and hang back.
But, unfortunately, our horses had by this time become so jaded, that I was obliged to slacken my pace and proceed more slowly, lest they should fail us altogether.
We were then obliged to slacken our pace, though we still heard occasionally the distant roaring of the cannon, proving incontestably that the struggle between the populace and the soldiery continued unabated.
She felt entirely crazy, and presumably her horse felt the same, for not for a moment did he slacken his thundering speed.
Daniel did not slackenhis pace, and in a few moments he was close upon her heels.
Yes," said Brace; "I think we might slackensail a little now.
He was just in time, for the men's efforts had begun to slacken and something of a panic was setting in amongst them.
Those who could not find a place among the muskets were constrained to lie shivering in the open, enduring much hardship, for the rain did not slackentill dawn.
For several hours, the pirates got no farther, though the fire did not slacken on either side.
But the fair deeds of her brother did not make her obstinate and wonted hatred slacken a whit; she wore the spirit of her new husband with her design of slaying Frode and mastering the sovereignty of the Danes.
For in warfare nought is found to be more ruinous than that a man, made foolhardy by ease, should neglect and slacken his affairs and doze in arrogant self-confidence.
Breezy had never carried Dyke so well before, and a sensation came over him, making him feel that he must shout and sing and slacken his rein, and gallop as hard as the cob could go.
The absence of musk ox did not slacken the pace of the dogs.
The fire raged till the 19th with unabated violence, and then began to slacken for want of fuel.
In the meanwhile, as a heavy cannonade was continued on both sides, Napoleon observed one of the batteries of the Young Guard slacken its fire.
This is true only when a fund is so far relied upon as to slacken personal effort for the improvement of the schools, and to induce parental and popular indifference in relation to them.
As the strings twist, slacken your hold upon the ends, and when it has wound up tight pull again to make it whirl in the opposite direction.
At any rate, it quickly yielded to the strong hands wrenching at its mouth, and began to slacken its speed.
As the first shot our heroes had heard in the war rang out over the sea, and the leaden messenger struck in close proximity to its target, the strange sloop was seen to soon slacken its flight.
Thus impeded, Xenophon sent frequent messages entreating Cheirisophus to slacken the march of the van division; but instead of obeying, Cheirisophus only hastened the faster, urging Xenophon to follow him.
Perhaps its opposition wire is too tight, in which case slacken it, and possibly you will find that will tighten the slack wire.
If the angle is too small, then slacken ALL the wires going to the bottom of the strut, and tighten ALL the wires going to the top of the strut, until the correct adjustment is secured.
