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M'Leod meant: but I was soon made to comprehend it, by crowds of eloquent beggars, who soon surrounded me: many who had been resolutely struggling with their difficulties, slackened their exertions, and left their labour for the easier trade of imposing upon my credulity.
"Hurry, Uncle John!" he called anxiously. "They are after us." Uncle John urged his horse to greater effort and the animal responded nobly. For a moment he kept pace with Hal's swifter mount. Hal dropped the reins to his horse's neck, and drew his second revolver. Then he slackened the pace of his horse even more. "Go ahead!" he cried as Uncle John flashed by. "I'll hold 'em back a minute or two."
It had in no way slackened his tense enthusiasm, dulled the keenness of his spirit, lowered his high flight. He knew that well enough. But he wondered if she would understand, and he could not believe it possible. The mood of exaltation in which they had parted that afternoon came to him, and then the sight of her shocked face as he had seen it in the laughing crowd in the Place Blanche.
The buck slipped forward, letting him down, and, when he rose he saw the white tail whisking round a corner in the reeds. On he dashed down a narrow path, which twisted and turned so sharply that he could only see a few yards ahead; but he was never in fault, as when he could not see the game he could hear it plainly, so he never slackened.
Addington, and absorbed in the tissue of plot and counterplot now thickening fast in Paris the arch-plotter in all of them being himself the First Consul had slackened awhile his hot haste to set foot upon the shore of England.
And now Diamond felt that he would rather not run any farther, and that the ice had got very rough. Besides, he was near the precipices that bounded the sea, so he slackened his pace to a walk, saying aloud to himself: "When North Wind has punished me enough for making game of her, she will come back to me; I know she will, for I can't go much farther without her." "You dear boy!
And all at once an epileptic was seized with convulsions, and began foaming on her stretcher, without, however, causing any stoppage of the procession, which never slackened its march, lashed onward as it was by the blizzard of feverish passion which impelled it towards the Grotto.
Toward evening the attack of the French, repeated and resisted so bravely, slackened in its fury. They had other foes besides the British to engage, or were preparing for a final onset.
The courses all are past, the wheels erect All safe when, as the hurrying coursers round The fatal pillar dashed, the wretched boy Slackened the left rein. On the column's edge Crashed the frail axle headlong from the car, Caught and all mesh'd within the reins, he fell; And! masterless, the mad steeds raged along! Loud from that mighty multitude arose A shriek a shout!
They stood on piles of wood driven into the mud, like houses on stilts, and their high-pointed bamboo roofs stood out over the river like gigantic poke-bonnets. "Slow," shouted Tamate to the engineer. The Miro slackened speed till she just stemmed the running current and no more. "It will be a bit of a shock to them," said Tamate to his friends, "to see this launch.
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