slacken pace
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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
The going was rough for a while, but I did not slacken pace, though the road was narrow, and to have met a cart would have meant certain destruction.
From The Motor Pirate by G. Sidney Paternoster
Over and over again Xenophon would send an order to the front to slacken pace, when the enemy were pressing their attack severely.
From Anabasis by Henry Graham Dakyns
Bowing low like racers over their handle-bars, they shoot past us; they slacken pace and keep alongside, they shoot ahead; the cyclists are most fearfully excited.
From A Journal of Impressions in Belgium by May Sinclair
But when the sleigh reached midstream, below the great fall, the horse had perforce to slacken pace by reason of the water which had overflowed the ice and wetted the snow.
From Maria Chapdelaine by W. H. Blake
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