"Slackly" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... had succeeded, though he knew that there were men on the prairie who called his comrade slackly careless, instead of impulsive. Agatha, ...
— Hawtrey's Deputy • Harold Bindloss
... about leaving, footsteps rustled quickly on the sand and Jason was alone. The leather walls flapped slackly in the wind and there was no other sound. Jason spat on his palms, controlled a slight shiver and slid into the pit. The wrench fitted neatly over the nut, he wrapped both hands around it and, bracing his leg against the pit wall, began ...
— The Ethical Engineer • Henry Maxwell Dempsey
... cage and hang without moving, as though indifferent. But soon the disease has them in its grip. What we see is not the tumultuous ending of the sacred beetle; it is the calm advent of death. With wings slackly quivering, softly they die and drop from the wires. Next day, both corpses are remarkably lax; the segments of the abdomen separate and gape at the least touch. Remove the hairs and you shall see that the skin, which was white, ...
— The Life of the Fly - With Which are Interspersed Some Chapters of Autobiography • J. Henri Fabre
... been about an hour after this that the front-door bell rang. He had been writing slackly, and with intervals of abstraction, since the shots. He sat listening. He heard the servant answer the door, and waited for her feet on the staircase, but she did not come. "Wonder what ...
— The Invisible Man • H. G. Wells
... His chin trembled, his lips fell apart slackly; he lowered his eyes after an instant's contact with the ...
— Defenders of Democracy • The Militia of Mercy
... a very great difference, according to the art or attention of the housewife. Dyeing is an art wholly unknown to them. The women are very expert at platting, which is usually done with three threads of sinew; if greater strength is required, several of these are twisted slackly together, as in the bowstrings. The quickness with which some of the women plat is really surprising; and it is well that they do so, for the quantity required for the bows alone would otherwise occupy half the year in ...
— Journal of the Third Voyage for the Discovery of a North-West Passage • William Edward Parry |
