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The Federal Constitution required their return, but this task had been left to State laws and courts, and was performed slackly, if at all. The total number of fugitives was not large nor the pecuniary loss heavy, but the South was exasperated by what it considered a petty and contemptible depredation.
She saw all these things; but she did not see that his romantic youth lay dying in the pathos of his eyes and that if it pleaded still it pleaded forgiveness for the sin of dying. His hand fell slackly from hers as she took it. It was as if they were still on their guard, still afraid of each other's touch.
The gray snow looked all the same, and the hollow track vanished a few yards in front; the rows of trunks had faded into a vague dark mass, and the branches met overhead in a thick canopy. The horses were big, valuable Percherons, but they were exhausted and stood slackly, with steam rising from their foam-flecked coats.
If they are too dull, twisting them slackly with a very brilliant tint will give a better shade than if the original tint was satisfactory, but in the same way yarns which are too brilliant can often be made soft and effective by twisting them together with a paler tint. Minute particles of colour brought together in this way are brilliant without crudeness.
I've got this nailed shut." There was the sound of an effort of some kind going on as she talked. "Though I ought to let you stay out there and rot. Damn it ... uh!" The door heaved open then, and she appeared in it; then she saw him, and her jaw dropped open slackly. "You!" "Me," he agreed. "And lucky for you, Cuddles." Her hand streaked to a gun in her belt. "Kill him!"
I'm not going to relinquish anything of you that I can keep; that I ever had a chance to keep." He took her hands and gently coolly kissed them. "Then don't relinquish anything," she said. "It's all yours. Can't you believe that, John?" He released her hands and sank back slackly in his chair. "Victory!" he said, a note of inextinguishable irony in his voice.
Archer's black brocade, while Miss Archer's brown and purple poplins hung, as the years went on, more and more slackly on her virgin frame. Mentally, the likeness between them, as Newland was aware, was less complete than their identical mannerisms often made it appear.
God's possession of him. That possession by God involves God's protection and man's safety. He does not hold His property slackly. 'None shall pluck them out of My Father's hand. Kindred. The man bears the family name. He is adopted into the household. The sonship of the receiver of the new name is dimly shadowed. Likeness. The Biblical meaning of 'name' is 'character manifested.
After an interval a waiter slackly approached him. 'Brandy-and-soda! Henry ordered, well knowing that brandy-and-soda never suited him. He glanced away from the clock, repeated 'Punch, brothers, punch with care, twenty times, recited 'God save the Queen, took six small sips at the brandy-and-soda, and then looked at the clock again, and it was only fourteen minutes to nine.
The strange thing was, he did not think much about Barbara, although he was vaguely conscious that, for her sake, he must hold out. He meant to hold out. Perhaps his talents were not numerous, but he could handle engines, and when it was necessary he could keep awake. At length, Learmont called him one morning to the bridge, and he leaned slackly against the rails.
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