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slackening
1. He gasped and shook in spite of himself, armor clinking with the sudden slackening of his nerves
2. As a graying sixties generation quickly approaches middle age, sustained by a wistful desire for the ―good old days‖ that typified its youthful idealism, many can‘t help reflecting on those formative years without forlorn regret over a progeny whose slackening awareness and indifference to social ―causes‖ and other immediate issues that continue to trouble our society has given way to self-gratifying designs, like amassing ―huge‖ fortunes, for example
3. I certainly do it as a matter of course now and have not noticed any slackening of this unwritten rule yet
4. He continued on, slowly slackening his pace to let her float down slowly to the beginning
5. He eased away gradually, for else the slackening of the ropes had been as great a torment to the torn joints as further stretching
6. They came together within 20 feet of the half-breed, the dog not slackening
7. William could feel the slackening of the hold that Collette still had on his hand
8. progressed, there was a slackening of the tension in the room
9. Eugene stares at him, his face slackening and his stomach knotting with guilt
10. He repeated tugging lightly upon the thread and then slackening it
11. of slackening, the youngster volunteered to help Charlotte with the
12. After about a year of frenzied imports the Libyan market"s appetite was satiated and the slackening in orders commenced while my production was at full throttle
13. Sometimes I feel that its jealousy or more or less competitiveness which kept Sara from slackening the tension with Adi
14. He was soon on the other side of the river (this was his way back to La Huchette), and Emma saw him in the meadow, walking under the poplars, slackening his pace now and then as one who reflects
15. The coachman entered and traversed the half-circle without slackening his speed, and the gates were closed ere the wheels had ceased to sound on the gravel
16. This observe, when I made it, led me to go up to the bailie as he was storming at the bribed and corrupt innkeeper, and to say to him, that if he would leave the matter to me, I would settle it to the content of all present; which he, slackening the grip he had taken of the landlord by the throat, instantly conceded
17. Levin rose to his feet, took off his overcoat, and scurrying over the rough ice round the hut, came out on the smooth ice and skated without effort, as it were, by simple exercise of will, increasing and slackening speed and turning his course
18. Melanie hung onto it as though it were a life line, straining, pulling it taut, slackening it, tearing it
19. Then miraculously, way up Central Park West, at the very edge of what the slackening snowfall permitted him to see, one glimmered into view: two bulbs surmounted by a headband of light
20. But it already felt as if they were sitting here in nothing but their underwear, baring their slackening waistlines and winter-pale skin to the impassive Head of School
21. But her body had changed, slackening from the kids, and then sort of winnowing, as if to prepare her transition from motherhood to career
22. The bill slackening on the mirror
23. Thus in these brief weeks Dorothea's joyous grateful expectation was unbroken, and however her lover might occasionally be conscious of flatness, he could never refer it to any slackening of her affectionate interest
24. But it must be admitted that the fixing, which had to come first, was the more difficult task:— what secular avocation on earth was there for a young man (whose friends could not get him an "appointment") which was at once gentlemanly, lucrative, and to be followed without special knowledge? Riding along the lanes by Frick in this mood, and slackening his pace while he reflected whether he should venture to go round by Lowick Parsonage to call on Mary, he could see over the hedges from one field to another
25. Lydgate was aware that his concessions to Rosamond were often little more than the lapse of slackening resolution, the creeping paralysis apt to seize an enthusiasm which is out of adjustment to a constant portion of our lives
26. (and the chant showed no signs of slackening) he found himself wondering, since Entish was such an 'unhasty' language, whether they had yet got
27. However, the weekly chart shows a pattern that we know well: several marginal new lows on slackening momentum followed by a sharp reversal off those lows
28. This is the fact that, viewed historically, most successful companies of the past are found to have pursued a well-defined life cycle, consisting first of a series of struggles and setbacks; second, of a halcyon period of prosperity and persistent growth; which in turn passes over into a final phase of supermaturity—characterized by a slackening of expansion and perhaps an actual loss of leadership or even profitability
29. The general looked the captain up and down as he came up panting, slackening his pace as he approached
30. But besides this, since the exhaustion and enormous diminution of the army caused by the rapidity of the advance had become evident, another reason for slackening the pace and delaying presented itself to Kutuzov
31. When it is perceived, from the slackening of their fire, that they have no more powder and ball, the assault is made
32. Now the rain was slackening, and the children were crushed in the great thick windows
33. The non-commissioned officer on guard arrived at last, musket on shoulder, helmet on head, accompanied by two soldiers; he approached the corpse, slackening his pace with an air of uncertainty
34. Slackening his pace, Nikolay Vsyevolodovitch bent down to look more closely, as far as he could, in the darkness
35. was walking rather slowly, the carriage was still some distance away, and it seemed to me that my escort was obstinately slackening our pace, as if he meant to be left alone with me
36. But besides this, since the exhaustion and enormous diminution of the army caused by the rapidity of the advance had become evident, another reason for slackening the pace and delaying presented itself to Kutúzov
