slacken pace
Example Sentences
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Then, lifting her into the sleigh, and tucking the bear skin about her, he drove briskly over the road toward home, not allowing the horse to slacken pace until he reached his own door.
From Randy and Her Friends by Amy Brooks
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
As the merman began to slacken pace, Dalgard sent that query.
From Star Born by Andre Norton
Do what we would there was no persuading our driver to slacken pace enough so as to admit of a full enjoyment of the prospect that unfolded before us.
From In the Heart of the Vosges And Other Sketches by a "Devious Traveller" by Matilda Betham-Edwards
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
