slackened

Presently Kari's walk slackened into a slow pace, and we felt quite sure that he was dozing.

After he had pulled the barge about two hundred yards he stopped; the rope slackened and then the current pulled against us.

She went slowly on; the man slackened his pace and fell behind so that he could still keep her in sight.

And presently I saw that our consort, the Dane, had slackened her speed, so that there was a mile of water between us astern.

He walked quickly until he came to the Rue St. Honoré, when his pace slackened a little and he grew more thoughtful.