But she veered without slackeningspeed in the direction indicated.
A few yards beyond the staring watchers, each of the little plunderers pivoted sharply in its turn and without even slackening speed vanished straight into the cliff-face.
He knows how and I don't," muttered Tad, slackening on the reins.
After a time the animals seemed to him to beslackening their speed.
Wat was at his post, looking out, as usual, upon the slackening traffic and quickening pleasure-seeking of the street.
Never slackening their speed on the summit, they rushed on--Drumclog going down hill among the rabbit-holes and thorn bushes as swiftly and surely as on level pavemented city street.
But it was soon evident that they were slackening speed, and the trumpet rang out again, but with an uncertain sound, for it was nearly drowned by the angry yelling which arose.
Now and then he gasped, but he worked on with no slackening of effort, for that part of the crop was heavy and the sheaves were falling thick and fast in the wake of the machine.
As he did so the clanging of a locomotive bell broke through a slackening clatter of wheels, and when after a smart run he reached the station, hot and somewhat breathless, the lights of the long train were just sliding out of it.
Peter Siner's mental slackeningmade him understandable, and gave him a certain popularity in Nigger-town.
Only by an effort could Peter enforce a temporary cohesion among them, and they dropped apart at the first slackening of the strain.
At length, slackening his pace, he took from his pocket the letters and carefully scrutinized the inscription of each.
He went up to him without an instant's slackening of his steady step.
But through the afternoon there was no weakening of the pressure from the rear till the evening shadows and the frequent falling of the worn-out beasts forced a slackening of the pace and finally a halt.
His face showed white and his breath was coming fast, but there was no slackening of speed, and the cleanness and ease with which he was doing his work showed that there was still some reserve in him.
Still, there was no stoppage or slackening of effort.
Suddenly he felt a slackening of the rope, accompanied by a faint sickening sound.
The bear, a clumsy creature at best, and streaming and blinded with his blood, was slackening a little, but there was life in him yet, and twice its measure of vengeance.
He gives a great jerk, dragging the bull to his knees, then another, and the bull is on his side and rolling over and over down the hill, Rafael following fast, slackening his lariat.
Early on the morning of the 14th, the ice slackening a little in our neighbourhood, we took advantage of it, though the people were much fagged, to tighten the cables, which had stretched and yielded considerably by the late pressure.
The help which slackening Piety requires; Nor deem that he perforce must go astray Who treads upon the footmarks of his sires.
Even Strangers, slackening here their pace, Shall hail this work of pious care, Lifting its .
The carriage moved slowly, the horse slackening its pace in climbing the last steep piece of hill which leads to the pond on Hampstead Heath.
And the salmon would run and men would pursue them, and the game would be played without slackening for such things as broken faith or aching hearts or a woman's tears.
The season was far gone, the salmon run slackening to its close.
No sooner were the footsteps of the governor heard dying away in the distance, when fresh lights were ordered, and several logs of wood heaped on the slackening fire.
With a gasp he lunged for it and scooped it up without slackening speed.
Without slackening speed, he tore on, his heart thumping like a trip-hammer.
The shells had ceased, and the enemy was slackening in his attack all along the line.
But the pom-pom continued to deal death, slackening only now and then when a fresh belt was adjusted.
He judged by the signs of slackening interest that they would be stopping soon and, he hoped, going clear away.
A slackening by one country, however, would rather stimulate the others than cause them to slacken; British naval expenditure was a great factor in that of Europe, but the forces making for increase were beyond control.
Count Berchtold, speaking of the mutual relations of the Triple Alliance and the Triple Entente, noted "a certain slackening of the tension" between them, which he attributed to the policy of Great Britain.
