Indeed, later on, when the war was over, and he himself was expeditiously disposing of his interests in ships, for he had known wars before and the slumps that followed them, it was to those same shipowners that he sold some of his most deplorable wrecks at the top of the market, rather mystified at their blind eagerness to close with him at any price.
"Command"
William McFee
For family use a cow that produces milk steadily in uniform amounts over eight or ten months is far more desirable than one which produces a large volume following freshening and then slumps off rapidly.
"A Living from the Land"
William B. Duryee
Next he sighs, drops his chin, and slumps into a chair.
"On With Torchy"
Sewell Ford