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At the corner she and her companion visibly slackened their pace he must make his choice between joining them and passing obliviously by. He passed, hesitated, then slowed down.
They slackened their pace, and looking eagerly forward, seemed to think it not improbable that the whites had arrived in the vicinity, and might be lying in ambush awaiting their return in search of the maid. They then abandoned the canoe, after having concealed it under some low bushes, and entered the grove in a stooping and watchful posture.
This band had to be "slackened or braced" according to the influence of the atmosphere upon the leather, and sometimes the holes in the band tended to gape and admit seed between the band and the barrel, in which case Washington found it expedient to rivet "a piece of sheet tin, copper, or brass, the width of the band, and about four inches long, with a hole through it, the size of the one in the leather."
He slackened his pace as he heard footsteps overtake him, and where a beam of light shone out from an open door he wheeled about, thinking me a footpad. "You, Félix?" "Yes, monsieur; I go with M. le Comte." "I have not permitted you." "Then must I go in despite. Monsieur is wounded; I cannot leave him to go unsquired." "There are lackeys to hire. I bade you seek M. le Duc."
"And I figure if you leave now, we won't need to talk about the beauty supplies that go missing just before your days off." Rhonda's eyes widened uncontrollably as she gave a guilty grin to the floor tiles. "So, adios!" With that, he returned to the Osco floor. Julia's jaw slackened but Rhonda pealed into outright laughter. "It's not funny!" shouted Julia. "Oh, forget this Popsicle-stand!
Slowly the sun went down, and sea and berg and snow-clad cliff grew grey in the light of departing day. Still the panting team sped on over the frozen sea. Soon it became too dark to travel with safety. The pace was slackened. The run became a canter, then a trot, and then a walk. At last the driver stopped, jumped off the sledge, and ordered the women to get out the seal and feed the dogs.
That someone would give us a good licking, for the benefit of our souls." Having spoken it, she was ashamed, and her lip quivered a little. But the train had slackened speed; they entered a station. "Rugby!" she exclaimed, with relief. "Have you any views about treatment of the phylloxera?" "Odd that you should mention that. Why?"
It had run several miles, when, the fire becoming low for want of fuel, the steam had slackened; and it had finally stopped an hour after, some twenty miles beyond Fort Kearney. Neither the engineer nor the stoker was dead, and, after remaining for some time in their swoon, had come to themselves. The train had then stopped.
And, as he looked, he saw the girl turn a frightened face toward her close pursuer and knew that she saw him as well. Her pace slackened for a moment as this revelation came to her, and he felt, somehow, that in him she recognized comparative protection. Then she recovered herself and bent all the power she had toward the ascent.
The Emperor glanced back at me, and slackened his pace a little so that I came within arm's length of him. You may think that I had my hilt well to the front, and that I had a very good look at these two people who were approaching us. The one was tall, remarkably so, and of very spare frame, while the other was rather below the usual height, and had a brisk, determined way of walking.
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