"Slackly" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... a few drops of oil on the surface, formed the chief drink of the galley slaves, and their food was moistened biscuit or rusk, and an occasional mess of gruel (burgol): nor was this given out when hard rowing was needed, for oars move slackly ...
— The Story of the Barbary Corsairs • Stanley Lane-Poole
... His mouth fell slackly open as his eyes lifted to Bentley's face. But he recovered himself and slapped his ...
— The Mind Master • Arthur J. Burks
... there. He could see her through a half-drawn portiere in one of the trying-on rooms. She was sitting limp on a chair, overcome by the tropic warmth of Sloane Street, with her noble head thrown back, her fine eyes half shut, and her beautiful hands lying slackly ...
— Hugo - A Fantasia on Modern Themes • Arnold Bennett
... are. Dear Lytton! At intervals he talks and can hear reading, but this morning he is lower again. In fact, from the first he has been very apprehensive about himself—inclined to talk of divine things, of the state of his soul and God's love, and to hold this life but slackly. ...
— The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Volume II • Elizabeth Barrett Browning
... the father in years for his Child beseecheth; a virginal Zone falls slackly to earth for you, You half-fear in his hankering Lists the groomsman ...
— The Poems and Fragments of Catullus • Catullus
... winter, with more rain than snow, more snow than sunshine, and it seemed to Helen that half her life was spent in watching for Zebedee's figure bent against the storm as he drove up the road, while Mildred Caniper lay slackly in her bed. She no longer stared at the ceiling, for though her body had collapsed, her will had only wavered, and it was righting itself slowly, and the old thoughts which had been hunting her for years had not yet overcome ...
— Moor Fires • E. H. (Emily Hilda) Young
... rather tempting; might be useful to the islands - and to me; for it will be written in admirable temper; I have never agreed with any party, and see merits and excuses in all; should do it (if I did) very slackly and easily, as if half in conversation. History for Children? This flows from my lessons to Austin; no book is any good. The best I have seen is Freeman's OLD ENGLISH HISTORY; but his style is so rasping, and a child can learn more, if ...
— Vailima Letters • Robert Louis Stevenson
... physician was speaking, Andrew Daney's face had gradually been taking on the general color-tones of a ripe old Edam cheese. His chin slowly sagged on his breast; his lips parted in horror and amazement until, finally, his mouth hung open slackly, foolishly; presently, two enormous tears gathered in the corners of his eyes and cascaded slowly across his cheeks into his whiskers. He gripped ...
— Kindred of the Dust • Peter B. Kyne
... nearer they were struck by his appearance, for he rode as a man who had lost all interest in life; his clothes were disordered, he looked neither to right nor left, but drooped his head sadly, while one foot hung in the stirrup and the other dangled slackly in the air. The yeomen had never seen so doleful a rider; but, sad as he was, this was a visitor and must be taken to Robin; accordingly Little John stepped forward and caught ...
— Hero-Myths & Legends of the British Race • Maud Isabel Ebbutt |
