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Slackly lying back in her armchair, she watched the little flames beginning to creep among the coals indifferently, as if they, too, were very distant and indifferent.
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Slackly, it seemed to him, and with reluctance, the twin attendants wheeled his plane out on the roof.
Brave New World Huxley, Aldous, 1894-1963 1932
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Slackly lying back in her arm-chair, she watched the little flames beginning to creep among the coals indifferently, as if they, too, were very distant and indifferent.
Night and Day 1920
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Slackly-held reins make stumbling steeds; and any man on whose shoulders is laid the weight of government is bound to feel it as a weight.
Expositions of Holy Scripture: Romans Corinthians (To II Corinthians, Chap. V) Alexander Maclaren 1868
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