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After leaving the road the man slackened his pace, and now went forward, rather deviously, with a distinct feeling of fatigue.

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.

I hailed her, but could get no answer; yet I found I gained upon her, for the wind slackened. I made all the sail I could, and in half an hour she spied me, then hung out her ancient, and discharged a gun.

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.

At night when the sun went down, the sheets were slackened; in the morning, when they yielded up the damp of the dew and relaxed, they were pulled tight again--and that was all.

Tulliver had never slackened in his resolve to raise the money, but now he at once determined to write a letter to Mrs.

It is but bare justice to Mr Swiveller to say, that, although the expenses of her education kept him in straitened circumstances for half a dozen years, he never slackened in his zeal, and always held himself sufficiently repaid by the accounts he heard (with great gravity) of her advancement, on his monthly visits to the governess, who looked upon him as a literary gentleman of eccentric habits, and of a most prodigious talent in quotation.

Increased arrivals from producing belts against slackened demand from bulk consumers also weighed pressure on the cashew prices.

"We are not pleased at all with the work of the traffic police, and we see that they have slackened their application of the law, especially with regards to motorcycles, which we see flitting and darting about," said subcommittee chair MP Mohammad Qabbani.