Anyhow she, Shahzadi Khadeeja Khanum, was not one to stand any slackness in a bridegroom's ardour, and if he did not appear that day, she would choose another.
This had already been ably seen to by the ship's officers--I merely went round the fleet to sift any genuine complaints from the discontent natural to the situation in which their own slackness had placed them.
The man you choose should have a thorough knowledge of the game, and also enthusiasm and keenness, which should be a standing rebuke to that subtle spirit of slackness which is so characteristic of our men to-day.
I see one picture which explains to me why a great deal of the slackness is creeping over our boys.
On the whole however, in respect of speed in travelling, the Greeks and Romans were but slow coaches; and these exceptional instances merely serve to prove the general slackness of their pace.
Owing to theslackness of our Allies, these enterprises proved unexpectedly difficult.
Now, the slackness of Austria enabled her future destroyer to place his foot on the first rung of the ladder of fame, and prompted those mighty plans for the conquest of the Italian States which were to ensure her overthrow and his supremacy.
Thus, even if there is no opposition to a railway bill, it often happens that it is as effectually blocked by the sheer slackness of individual congressmen.
On the deck above the hearty shouts of Ameinias the trierarch, and chanting of the seamen told that on the Nausicaä at least there would be no slackness in the fight.
Thus a good present Behaviour is an implicit Repentance for any Miscarriage in what is past; but present Slackness will not make up for past Activity.
They clos'd full fast on ev'ry side, No Slackness there was found.
God knows but my slackness hitherto hath been the cause of that poor boy's death.
Private Smith's very smartness seemed to leave him in a sudden slacknessof relief.
Therein she saw three lines that were on her brow, lines of age, and at the corners of her mouth and about her throat a slackness of skin, the skin no longer its soft rosy white, but withered brown as leaves of the forest.
All this was wholesome, and yet it is difficult to understand this ardent zeal for the morals of the laity, when compared with the slackness as to solicitation.
Now she lay thinking of him in the dejected slackness of her overwhelming morning fatigue.
But, during this disturbed epoch, few new monasteries were founded, and the tendency to slackness in observance of the rule again appeared.
Where slackness of rule was prevalent, temptations of this kind must have abounded, and convents which had the misfortune to possess an unworthy or lazy head were liable to succumb to them.
He began life well, but he has slackness in his blood and no vital enthusiasm in his heart.
The two chief enemies of mankind are moral slackness and physical slackness.
I dreamt I saw skeletal slackness dangling; the poverty of touch is a casket with love in rumbling sockets.
Slackness schemes with invalid awareness in a brothel of hope.
They were ordered to obey humbly whatever the legates might see fit to command, and the vengeance of the Holy See was threatened for slackness or contumacy.
The baffled chieftain's troubles were rendered sorer by the legate, who taunted him with his ill-success, and accused him of ignorance or slackness in his work.
You will find, too, that behind the apparent slackness of every arrangement and every individual are powers of adaptability to facts, elasticity, practical genius, a latent spirit of competition and a determination that are staggering.
Commenting upon the prevailing slacknessof tutors, Gibbon quoted his own experiences.
Slackness was fashionable because the King was slack, and the higher naval administration had to contend with idleness and dishonesty in the lower ranks of the service due to a relaxation of the standards of public and private duty.
As this accumulation grows there come with it a muscular slackness and a disinclination to exercise.
It should be remembered that all the members of the body partake of the slackness that is apparent externally.
Her self-respect was for the moment crushed, and the breach made in the wholeness of personal dignity had produced a strange slackness of nerve, extending both to body and mind.
It seemed to him in a moment which was one of some slackness and reaction, that he had been growing too fast.
It should also be noticed that the body is more relaxed than formerly, that there is more bend at the elbows, that the arms are not so stiff, and that there is the least suspicion, moreover, of slackness at the knees.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "slackness" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
