slacken pace
Example Sentences
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The Pursuers were now compelled to proceed with caution: As well as they could judge, the Fugitive also seemed to slacken pace, for they heard the steps follow each other at longer intervals.
From The Monk; a romance by M. G. (Matthew Gregory) Lewis
He waited, expecting it to slacken pace or to swerve from him into a different course.
From The Wind in the Willows by Paul Bransom
He waited, expecting it to slacken pace, or to swerve from him into a different course.
From The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame
Close Up, finding it did not go off when he expected, began to slacken pace and gallop in an undecided way.
From Outback Marriage, an : a story of Australian life by A. B. (Andrew Barton) Paterson
Frequently, before the dispatch-riders reached their destination, they were compelled to slacken pace, owing to the clouds of smoke that drifted slowly across the almost deserted streets.
From The Dispatch-Riders The Adventures of Two British Motor-cyclists in the Great War by Percy F. (Percy Francis) Westerman
