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- adjective Not
slackened .
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Examples
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When a loaded car was approaching down the track, the crew on the empty one would jump off and lift their car from the rails, then put it back after the loaded car went past with unslackened speed.
Nothing Like It in the World The Men Who Built the Transcontinental Railroad 1863-1869 STEPHEN E. AMBROSE 2000
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When a loaded car was approaching down the track, the crew on the empty one would jump off and lift their car from the rails, then put it back after the loaded car went past with unslackened speed.
Nothing Like It in the World The Men Who Built the Transcontinental Railroad 1863-1869 STEPHEN E. AMBROSE 2000
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Fear for the event, in such circumstances, would naturally preponderate in the bravest mind; and at one o'clock, perceiving that, after three hours 'endurance, the enemy's fire was unslackened, he began to despair of success.
The Life of Horatio Lord Nelson Southey, Robert, 1774-1843 1993
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Yet even in that awful moment our speed was unslackened; it was as if Bill cared no longer to _guide_ but only to drive, or as if the direction of his huge machine was determined by other hands than his.
The Idler Magazine, Vol III. May 1893 An Illustrated Monthly Various
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The road in perpetual curve between its little stone parapet and the broad flank of the hill rose and fell under the deodars; Innes took its slopes and its steepnesses with even, unslackened stride, aware of no difference, aware of little indeed except the physical necessity of movement, spurred on by a futile instinct that the end of his walk would be the end of his trouble -- his amazing, black, menacing trouble.
The Pool in the Desert Sara Jeannette Duncan
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With unslackened gait, with loosened rein, he swept fairly to the tree.
The Rules of the Game Stewart Edward White 1909
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But the firmness of his purpose, the clearness of his convictions, remained unslackened and unclouded.
The Life of Nelson Mahan, A. T. 1897
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American, when they had thus left him with his curiosity unslackened;
The Wreck of the Nancy Bell Cast Away on Kerguelen Land 1887
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But the firmness of his purpose, the clearness of his convictions, remained unslackened and unclouded.
The Life of Nelson, Volume 1 (of 2) The Embodiment of the Sea Power of Great Britain 1877
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The banter, the songs, the laughter, the chorus of tongues, went on unslackened by his presence.
Under Two Flags 1839-1908 Ouida 1873
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