slacken pace
Example Sentences
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I made my driver slacken pace as we neared the big, square pink house of Rechid Bey, set far back in its garden of palms and impossible statues, on the bank of the Nile.
From It Happened in Egypt by C. N. (Charles Norris) Williamson
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
By this time, however, the three fugitives were almost within reach of their goal and could afford to slacken pace in favor of stealth.
From Every Man for Himself by Hopkins Moorhouse
The cab had not gone far when it began to slacken pace.
From Guilt of the Brass Thieves by Mildred A. (Mildred Augustine) Wirt
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
