slacken pace

Example Sentences

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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 Sinclair, May

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 Brooks, Amy

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 Moorhouse, Hopkins

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 Betham-Edwards, Matilda

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 Blake, W. H.