Perhaps, his lack of endurance was due to the excessive strain, or the ill-cooked food, but during the last few weeks he had been conscious that a slackness was creeping over him.
"The Greater Power"
Harold Bindloss W. Herbert Dunton
He wore plain city clothes, and they hung about him with a suggestive slackness.
"The Greater Power"
Harold Bindloss W. Herbert Dunton
Florence noticed the suggestive slackness of his bearing and her heart smote her, for she knew it was not mere physical weariness which had crushed the vigor out of the man.
"A Prairie Courtship"
Harold Bindloss