You must put your stick deep into the snow to slacken the speed and guide your sleigh.
"The Land of the Long Night" by Paul du Chaillu
As they approached the two Uhlans Ned slackened the speed of the motors.
"Boy Scouts Mysterious Signal" by G. Harvey Ralphson
It seemed in no way disposed to slacken its speed; but old Tom knew that if the harpoon held they would at length come up with it.
"The Voyage of the "Steadfast"" by W.H.G. Kingston
On this they somewhat slackened their pace, though they still held their weapons in a threatening manner.
"In the Wilds of Africa" by W.H.G. Kingston
The action lasted an hour and twenty minutes, when the Spaniards' fire sensibly slackened.
"Won from the Waves" by W.H.G. Kingston
She understood, also, when speech would slacken the tension of the mind.
"The Dew of Their Youth" by S. R. Crockett
In me the siege is so far slackened, as that we may come to fight, and so die in the field, if I die, and not in a prison.
"Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions" by John Donne
She hardly knew when the pace had slackened; she was benumbed with new sensations, darkness, speed and strength.
"Moor Fires" by E. H. (Emily Hilda) Young
Seventy-five feet from the top the strain slackened.
"The River of Darkness" by William Murray Graydon
Oliver for one moment slackened pace.
"The Fifth Form at Saint Dominic's" by Talbot Baines Reed
If he slackens or fails, armies and statesmen are helpless.
"In Our First Year of the War" by Woodrow Wilson
Suddenly it slackened, and with horror they felt that he was being carried off by the hungry waves.
"The Three Midshipmen" by W.H.G. Kingston
He went up to him without an instant's slackening of his steady step.
"Robert Elsmere" by Mrs. Humphry Ward
Then the horses slackened their pace, which led to disputes between the conductor and the driver.
"Bouvard and Pécuchet" by Gustave Flaubert
Her fire is slackening, and she must soon strike.
"Famous Sea Fights" by John Richard Hale
We slackened our speed, for we knew now that we should not lose her.
"Nobody's Boy" by Hector Malot
The officer slackened his bridle-rein.
"The Tiger Hunter" by Mayne Reid
And the musketry fire slackened elsewhere.
"Blackbeard: Buccaneer" by Ralph D. Paine
The galloping slackened, and soon came to an end.
"The Wild Huntress" by Mayne Reid
We slackened our pace just short of the Rue de Courcelles.
"The Confessions of Arsène Lupin" by Maurice Leblanc
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Belted on him then his sword,
Braced his slackened mail;
Doubting said: "I dreamed the Lord
Offered me the Grail."
"The Sangreal" by George MacDonald
O joyous idler in the sun,
In pity slacken here thy pace!
A lad, whose course is nearly run,
Is watching thee with wistful face.
"On The Promenade" by John Lawson Stoddard
For forty days, like a winged thing
She went before the gale,
Nor all that time we slackened speed,
Turned helm, or altered sail.
"The Old Man's Story" by Mary Botham Howitt
Often the tied strings of my lute slackened
at the strains of thy tunes.
And often at the ruin of wasted hours
my desolate evenings were filled with tears.
"Lord Of My Life" by Rabindranath Tagore
There was no power on earth to bid you slacken
The generous hand that painted her disgrace!
There was no shame on earth too black to blacken
That much-praised woman-face.
"Reassurance" by Charlotte Perkins Stetson Gilman
Ah, but the strength of regrets that strain and sicken,
Yearning for love that the veil of death endears,
Slackens not wing for the wings of years that quicken -
Years upon years.
"Recollections" by Algernon Charles Swinburne
Crude futures settle higher as the market weighs the potential disruption of a hurricane heading toward Texas with slackening demand.
"I was totally depressed by it," he said, his face slackening at the memory.
BEIJING — As China's economy slackens to its slowest pace in years, many U.S.-based multinationals are more dependent than ever on the country.
It's ratherish incongruous that you can pick up The New York Times (the voice of the Jet-Set) at a WINCO 24-Hour Savings Supermarket (which caters to those with a slacken life), in Vancouver, WA.
Rains expected to slacken after today.
Different from tightrope walking , the practice of slackening involves a stretchy bit of nylon wire that allows for more of a trampoline effect during tricks.
And some doctors say that once skin starts to slacken, pores often look larger, as if they've been stretched out of shape.
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Finally, define a slackened simple random walk as a nondegenerate symmetric right-continuous walk.
On the probability that integrated random walks stay positive
Let Sn be a centered random walk that is two-sided exponential, slackened simple, or symmetric two-sided geometric.
On the probability that integrated random walks stay positive
Since we need rates for both positive and negative excursions, the only slackened random walks would be covered, giving no refinement to Theorem 2. 3.
On the probability that integrated random walks stay positive
However, the gap ωQ grows with x,44 effectively slackening the momentum dependence of ω−4 k and promoting the separation of the susceptibility maxima from the antiferromagnetic wave vector.
Magnetic incommensurability in $p$-type cuprate perovskites
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