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Spoon a third of the egg whites into the ricotta mixture and stir well to slaken.

Archive 2006-03-01 Haalo 2006

Spoon a third of the egg whites into the ricotta mixture and stir well to slaken.

Budino di Ricotta - Ricotta Pudding Haalo 2006

And therefore holy men, when they are stirred to any unlawful thing, by inrising of any foul thought, as oft they set before their mind the pains that are to come; and so they slaken their temptation in the beginning, ere it rise to any foul delight in their soul.

The Cell of Self-Knowledge : seven early English mystical treatises printed by Henry Pepwell in 1521 Henry Pepwell 1902

A girl about sixteen, the very picture of despair, was the only one left who could administer any relief; and all she could do was to bring water in a broken pitcher to slaken their parched lips.

A Journal of a Visit of Three Days to Skibbereen, and its Neighbourhood Elihu Burritt 1844

I was glad when we were very politely invited to get out of the train and walk a plank over a puddle that for a moment submerged the track; glad when we were advised to foot it over a trestle-bridge that sagged in the swift current of a swollen stream; and gladder still when our locomotive began to puff and blow and slaken its pace as we climbed up into the mouth of a ravine fragrant with the warm scents of summer -- albeit we could boast but a solitary brace of cars, and these small ones, and not overcrowded at that.

Over the Rocky Mountains to Alaska Charles Warren Stoddard 1876

The politician, instructed in the true spring which can act upon the mind of nations, will feel distinctly, that it is not imperative to recur to imaginary theories, whilst there are actual motives to give play to the volition of the citizens; to induce them to labour efficaciously to the maintenance of their association; he will readily acknowledge that fictitious systems are calculated either to slaken the exertions, or to disturb the motion of so complicated a machine an human society.

The System of Nature, Volume 2 Paul Henri Thiry Holbach 1756