| 单词 | dawdling |
| 例句 | Her legs and her body trotted confidently ahead while her head drifted along behind like a dawdling balloon. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z But he went on dawdling and dragging the sides of his shoes along the pavement in order to scratch the leather. Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z The young kids openly resented their parents’ dawdling in the Store and Uncle Willie would call them in and spread among them bits of sweet peanut patties that had been broken in shipping. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z The goat’s dawdling was stretching Anya’s time in the woods, and she really wanted to get out fast. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z “I bet she’s dawdling by the forge,” I said, “watching Matthew work with his shirt collar open.” Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Close enough to tell me I should stop dawdling and get to work. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Now we stopped dawdling and laid our wheels to the road and went. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z He went directly home at the day’s end, with none of his usual reluctant dawdling. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z I ignore the few people dawdling in the corridor in front of me. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z “Be quick about your business, no dawdling, understand?” Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z "That's very kind, Mrs. Taylor”—Ewan's excuse was seamless—"but my mother's birthday dinners run to military precision. If she suspects me of dawdling, it'll be the execution squad at dawn.” Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z When guests wished a letter delivered faster than the dawdling post riders, he would recommend Johnny. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z “My point exactly. Now come along, everybody. We need to hurry—you’re to join the other new arrivals for Mr. Curtain’s welcome speech. Constance, stop dawdling. You, too, George, hustle it up.” The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z ‘Not he! When his tools have done their task he drops them. But you must go dangling after him, dawdling and talking, and riding round twice as far as you needed. “ The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z “Stop your dawdling and get to it,” the woman snaps. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z Now that the moment for departure had come, Matt found himself dawdling. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z All I see is a crowd of lazy, dawdling dead folk enjoying themselves and not helping the war effort. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z They naturally took comfort in each other’s society and were much together, riding, walking, dancing, or dawdling, for at Nice no one can be very industrious during the gay season. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z As we came off, you were moving at the dawdling speed of a small child. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z “No more dawdling!” the servant woman cried, and almost knocked Celaena off her feet as she pushed her out the doorway and slammed it shut. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z Right now the show is little more than rich people dawdling and preening on a stage. ‘Barococo’ Review: Fop Till You Drop 2022-02-21T05:00:00Z A mother walked into George’s just then and scolded her children for dawdling. David Sedaris: The IHOP Years 2017-04-15T04:00:00Z Meanwhile, on his part, if at 49 he’s only just realising you’re his best route to kids and family, then he’s either a slow learner or he’s been dawdling up until now. I want to leave my partner of 15 years. Am I being selfish? | Mariella Frostrup 2017-02-05T05:00:00Z “Chance” keeps threatening to blossom into the mordant comedy it ought to be, but the dawdling pace and a general dreariness of mood keep it tied down. Review: In ‘Chance,’ Hugh Laurie Returns as a Tormented Doctor 2016-10-18T04:00:00Z Like every other season this year, autumn is dawdling along like a foot-dragging kid on the first day of school. Cheap fun: See fall foliage from a vintage bus 2011-10-12T22:43:04Z It certainly has a lot to offer: a 180-mile-long coast whittled with spectacular ports like the walled towns of Budva and Kotor, immense valleys and dawdling rivers seasoned with wild water chestnuts. Next Stop: Uncovering Charms in Montenegro’s Capital 2013-09-05T13:01:37Z “Hurry up and put your shoes on!” results in dawdling and nary a shoe in sight. 2-year-olds don’t care how others feel — so stop forcing them to apologize 2017-05-09T04:00:00Z RESTAURANTS: I used to think that all those sophisticated Europeans dawdling through their three-hour dinners were showing off. What travel newbies need to know about visiting Europe 2016-09-13T04:00:00Z This meandering process takes up about an hour of the 90-minute play, during which conversations wander, characters listlessly scold one another for dawdling and very little new information is revealed. Theater Review: ?Lost on the Natchez Trace? by Jan Buttram 2012-02-17T00:04:34Z Then my focus settled on the merganser ducks dawdling around us and I wanted to be them. Explorer: Kayaking Lake Tahoe in Winter 2011-02-25T21:55:00Z The plot may be dawdling, but the dialogue has been flying heady and fast. “Bunheads” Adorable Nihilism 2012-07-17T14:22:00Z We had miles of snowy trails to ski and I had been dawdling too long over my gear. Skiing Town to Town in a Magical Corner of Vermont 2023-03-02T05:00:00Z So give the kids a break from mopey Harry and the dawdling Hallows — give yourself a break too — and get caught up in . 'Tangled' Movie Review: Disney Excels with Rapunzel Remake 2010-12-01T16:55:00Z All in all, the band proves the most enjoyable element of this sometimes funny but generally dawdling and muddy production, directed by Matthew Wilson. ‘One Man, Two Guvnors’ at 1st Stage They are ambling, dawdling and slouching to lunches, drinks and work meetings, powered by insouciance rather than haste. Can a Man Wear Mules to Work? 2021-09-09T04:00:00Z Her piano solos allowed little room for dawdling and lyrical rumination. Review: Eliane Elias Honors Generations of Brazilian Composers at Birdland 2015-04-08T04:00:00Z At a compact 90 minutes plus end credits, there's no time for dawdling, yet the story — or at least this particular chapter of it — feels satisfyingly complete. Dwayne Johnson's 'Hercules' packs action-filled punch 2014-07-25T04:00:00Z By then, surfing photography had improved enormously, and Brown’s pioneering camera work seemed primitive and dawdling in comparison. Perspective | The beautiful lie Bruce Brown and ‘The Endless Summer’ told us about surfing 2017-12-13T05:00:00Z I’m getting sick of the folks I see dawdling there before me, Trying to stick something under a seat as they casually ignore me. Style Invitational Week 1343: We plead no contest 2019-08-01T04:00:00Z What better place than a bookstore for dawdling? A double standard in enforcing prostitution laws: “It’s economically advantageous to have [high-end sex work] going on” 2015-10-04T04:00:00Z The early diners are dawdling, so your 7:30 p.m. reservation looks more like 8. To Survive in Tough Times, Restaurants Turn to Data-Mining 2017-08-25T04:00:00Z “South Africans never had the luxury of dawdling at the psychological precipice of great change,” she writes. An Empathetic Account of the Complexity After Apartheid 2022-07-27T04:00:00Z On "Terror Twilight," we definitely spent a lot of time dawdling and making weird mistakes. Stephen Malkmus stares into the "Mirror" 2011-08-22T23:01:00Z The biggest mistake of “Blood Ties” is its dawdling momentum. Movie Review: ‘Blood Ties’ Ignores Rules of the Gangster Genre 2014-03-20T23:26:44Z And while tempos were all over the place, they always tended forward; there was no dawdling over a passing beauty. Hagen Quartet’s precision, flexible style create fresh interpretation of classics 2017-03-05T05:00:00Z In the shower I scrub, rinse and repeat, dawdling under the hot water, not quite ready to face this day. “Beautiful is a woman being her true self”: Why I declined reconstruction after my double mastectomy 2016-07-17T04:00:00Z There was no dawdling in ruminative variations, and just enough use of expressive rubato in episodes of soaring lyricism. Jurowski Leads London Philharmonic at Carnegie Hall 2014-10-17T04:00:00Z And more than once, she slowed down to comment in a goofy, affectionate voice about kids in neat uniforms, dawdling on their way home from school. Eve Ewing Blasts From Chicago to Space, With a Boost from Marvel 2018-10-21T04:00:00Z Being lazy is enough of an art for the two of them, Mr. Harrelson said, that they warped the English language to suit their shared taste for dawdling. Woody Harrelson, Rogue Number One 2018-05-26T04:00:00Z The first act, which should be drastically reduced for future productions, is all dawdling exposition. Broadway's fall revivals: Why big stars can't make up for a lack of artistic vision 2016-11-17T05:00:00Z The smart, creepy disaster movie the trailers promised somehow went missing in director Gareth Edwards’ dawdling feature film. Are You Off to See the Lizard? 0002-11-29T05:00:00Z The first episode, then, is worrisome: It’s a little dawdling and predictable and unsure of its tone, with cardboard characters and flat dialogue. ‘The Strain,’ on FX, Centers on a Virus Linked to Vampirism 2014-07-11T04:00:00Z When he visits her in Maine, a weakly acted city-country dramedy results, dawdling along with a generic story of love after grief. Movie Listings for Feb. 12-18 2016-02-11T05:00:00Z But it still seems a major act of dawdling for director Nicholas Stoller to take 123 minutes to get to the end credits of this affable but uneven romantic comedy. The Five-Year Engagement Feels That Long 2012-04-26T10:45:58Z But even more distinctive are its dawdling rhythms, laconic performances and willingness to turn down the sound. Review: ‘Fear the Walking Dead,’ a Show About a Plague’s Start (What Zombies?) 2015-08-20T04:00:00Z First broadcast on Polish TV in 1970, How to Gain Money, Women and Fame? delighted domestic audiences and baffled critics before dawdling into the realm of cult novelty. Janusz Kondratiuk: Poland's answer to Woody Allen 2011-03-24T16:39:35Z It also showcased the banality of racism: it was a reminder that coffee shops, with all the dawdling they encourage, are a “white space.” The Summer of Coupon Carl, Permit Patty, and the Videos That Turn Cop-Callers into Mockable Memes 2018-07-21T04:00:00Z This unwieldy, often dawdling three-hour marathon was the concept of its affable host, Chapman Roberts, a musical-theater arranger and impresario whose farsighted perspective of Broadway encompasses a large swath of American culture. Honoring a Century of African-American Work on Broadway 2014-06-24T04:00:00Z Even with such dawdling, we covered lots of ground. A Bicycle Tour Through Remote Southwest Canyon Country 2010-07-31T04:30:00Z There’s a warmth in all this dawdling, as if its ingratiating characters are extending fellowship. “Lodge 49,” Reviewed: Channelling Pynchon to Capture California’s High Hopes and Deep Loss 2018-08-06T04:00:00Z “Dépêche-toi!” she yelled across the lawn to one, like a school principal urging on a dawdling student. A Theater Visionary ‘Nourished by the World’ 2017-12-01T05:00:00Z To go birding usually means dawdling for hours at your lodge or camp, which for me means that the food had better be good. India, Through a Birder?s Eyes 2011-01-14T20:30:41Z After Black Rod — Sarah Clarke — raps three times on the door with her staff, lawmakers make their way to the House of Lords, deliberately dawdling and chatting as they go. King Charles III will preside over Britain’s State Opening of Parliament, where pomp meets politics 2023-11-06T05:00:00Z After Black Rod – Sarah Clarke — raps three times on the door with her staff, lawmakers make their way to the House of Lords, deliberately dawdling and chatting as they go. King Charles III will preside over Britain’s State Opening of Parliament, where pomp meets politics 2023-11-06T05:00:00Z The McLaren driver, on a fast lap, came across the German dawdling on the racing line entering the final corner, Juncao. Sainz leads Ferrari one-two in Sao Paulo practice 2023-11-03T04:00:00Z Tropical Storm Hilary engorged the waterway, usually just a dawdling stream during the summer, widening its banks from 15 to 100 feet. Column: For nearly a century, this camp has hosted city children. Tropical Storm Hilary destroyed it 2023-09-27T04:00:00Z By dawdling on the TV deal, the Pac-12 might have lost the chance for a clean addition of San Diego State, by far the premier expansion candidate, for 2024. Pac-12 appears to be on borrowed time after Colorado bolts for Big 12 2023-07-27T04:00:00Z And lest anyone think the lack of a breakthrough was a sign of intransigence or dawdling or typical government dysfunction, both sides insisted that everyone involved agreed that they wanted to agree. This Is What ‘Productive’ Looks Like in Washington as Default Deadline Looms 2023-05-24T04:00:00Z Inflation deepened as the Fed’s rate moves remained more dawdling than decisive, and Mr. Burns’s name eventually became synonymous with bad central banking: irresolute and politicized. America’s Inflation Antihero Gets a Makeover 2023-04-21T04:00:00Z How tough is it to fix dawdling and lethargy? Perspective | The pitch clock is saving baseball — by returning it to the past 2023-03-28T04:00:00Z Let’s stop wasting time, money, property and so many lives by dawdling and dragging out the process of giving Ukrainians the air and land weapons they need to win. Opinion | Biden must give Ukraine the weapons it needs to win 2023-03-08T05:00:00Z The job should have taken him 10 minutes, but he could stretch it to a half-hour, often dawdling by the court, watching the basketball stars he saw on TV. Seattle wants an NBA team, but will the league play ball? 2022-10-06T04:00:00Z She’s still figuring out things like time management at Grand Slams and getting back to her hotel quickly without dawdling on-site or agreeing to too many off-court obligations. Coco Gauff can’t break Caroline Garcia’s streak in U.S. Open quarterfinals 2022-09-06T04:00:00Z In addition to reporting her youthful preoccupation with Stonewall Jackson, she confesses to trading the “gauzy, forced confidence” of her childhood for a growing sense of “frustration” and “dread” at the United States’ continued dawdling. Review | In post-apartheid South Africa, dashed hopes and moral struggles 2022-08-26T04:00:00Z Oh, and the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau says Dorsey is dawdling on an investigation, which honestly? Sorry, Elon Musk, but Jack Dorsey is still Twitter’s main character 2022-08-23T04:00:00Z A state commission later faulted several others there for dawdling rather than pursuing the shooter. Police made ‘wrong decision’ not to pursue Uvalde gunman, official says 2022-05-27T04:00:00Z There’s no time for dawdling, even if Hamlet happens to be the world’s most famous procrastinator. Antaeus Theatre Company presents a brisk, if not especially resonant, 'Hamlet' 2022-05-25T04:00:00Z Since leaving the Soviet Union in the early 1990s, the country has experienced huge depopulation, as citizens headed abroad to escape a dawdling economy and rampant corruption for better opportunities elsewhere. Moldovans Welcome Fleeing Ukrainians, but Some Pack Their Own Bags, Too 2022-03-08T05:00:00Z One might wonder if “dawdling” is the word for violent campaigns of racist terror and systematic programs of oppressive state policies, but Fairbanks is surely on to something. Review | In post-apartheid South Africa, dashed hopes and moral struggles 2022-08-26T04:00:00Z Critics accused Adams of abdicating his duties and dawdling while America faced a potential war with France. Biden’s absenteeism from the White House surpasses Trump, Obama 2022-01-28T05:00:00Z The Army general offered excuse after excuse to justify dawdling at key moments in the Civil War. Opinion | Joe Manchin would be foolish to indefinitely hold up the reconciliation bill 2021-09-06T04:00:00Z With pitchers dawdling to recover between high-exertion, high-velocity pitches and with 36 percent of at-bats ending with home runs, strikeouts or walks, around four minutes pass, on average, between balls put in play. Opinion | Baseball is losing its entertainment value. It’s time to change the rules. 2021-07-09T04:00:00Z Just as then, there was howling and plenty of dawdling to the exits on Wednesday. It’s Nadal vs. Djokovic in the French Open, but One Round Early 2021-06-09T04:00:00Z Tipoffs included “hushed conversations” and “small group huddles breaking up in silence on the approach of the supervisor,” as well as increased complaints, growing aggressiveness and dawdling in the bathroom. How Amazon Crushes Unions 2021-03-16T04:00:00Z Criticized for dawdling and initially being too skeptical, Bush nonetheless got it right. Opinion | Trump didn’t think, or act, strategically about China. Biden needs to do both. 2021-01-24T05:00:00Z This time Longstaff was guilty of dawdling on the edge of the 18-yard box, inviting Armstrong to steal in and punish another lapse. Che Adams helps Southampton beat Newcastle and top Premier League 2020-11-06T05:00:00Z Since school started for their only grandchild, they’re not leisurely reading the morning newspaper, dawdling over a sudoku or staying holed up in their Colorado cabin to beat the Arizona heat. Working families enlist grandparents to help with the kids 2020-08-20T04:00:00Z And there will in many places be strict one-way systems to stop dawdling and bumping in to fellow visitors. Coronavirus: The new rules for the 'day out' 2020-06-16T04:00:00Z The government has made matters worse by dawdling. Editorial Roundup: New York 2020-04-16T04:00:00Z The spiritual crisis in “I Still Believe” takes about two of the movie’s dawdling 115 minutes. Review | A Christian soft-rock singer faces a faith crisis in the sweetly slick ‘I Still Believe’ 2020-03-11T04:00:00Z After learning, experimenting and dawdling with friends in Cork, all it took was NKC’s raucous parties to dissolve their collective inhibition. 'No Fiat 500 techno!': why electronic music in Cork is popping off 2020-01-22T05:00:00Z The referees blew the play dead and stood nearby, dawdling like a pair of plainclothes detectives at a crime scene. My Year of Concussions 2019-11-04T05:00:00Z He was sharp enough to catch Matt Lowton dawdling in possession and surge away. Christian Pulisic’s hat-trick fires Chelsea to seventh consecutive victory 2019-10-26T04:00:00Z Essentially they changed their behavior to avoid the cameras as much as possible, “getting lost” on purpose and dawdling when transferring between terminals. Your Employer May Be Spying on You—and Wasting Its Time 2019-08-16T04:00:00Z City could have scored before that after Sterling dispossessed the dawdling Gomez 30 yards from goal and slipped a pass through to Leroy Sané, who fired into the side netting. Gabriel Jesus seals Community Shield for Manchester City in penalty shootout 2019-08-04T04:00:00Z But why are Democrats in Congress dawdling in obtaining his tax returns? Democrats promised to release Donald Trump’s tax returns. Why have we not seen them yet? 2019-04-03T04:00:00Z The lack of movement on school funding raises the most questions about whether lawmakers are dawdling too much. Kansas lawmakers struggle over school aid, Medicaid, taxes 2019-02-28T05:00:00Z Her artist’s view is usually a gaggle of buses dawdling at their stops; on the afternoon I visit, a homeless man is necking a bottle of sweet wine. Chrissie Hynde: ‘It's hard work being alone. Paintings are an outlet' 2018-11-04T04:00:00Z In a speech on Friday, Mrs. May seemed to double down on her strategy of dawdling, calling it “simply unacceptable” for the European Union to reject her plans without offering an alternative. Brexit Talks at ‘Impasse,’ Theresa May Says, After a Rancorous Summit 2018-09-21T04:00:00Z As Gov. Roy Cooper criticized the federal government’s decision to “turn their backs” on the state, Republican state legislators fired back, accusing him of dawdling in getting the funds into residents’ hands. Their homes were damaged in a 2016 hurricane. Now Florence could do it again. 2018-09-13T04:00:00Z When the news of Pruitt’s departure came down on 5 July, Costa was dawdling in the garage. Science under siege: behind the scenes at Trump’s troubled environment agency 2018-07-11T04:00:00Z The dawdling global response to warming temperatures means runaway climate change now looms. Ex-Nasa scientist: 30 years on, world is failing 'miserably’ to address climate change 2018-06-19T04:00:00Z So often these games have been gruelling, migrainosus things, England’s players lashed to the oars of some invisible Roman slave galley, dawdling the ball tortuously back and forth. Harry Kane keeps his head and England find a ray of sunshine | Barney Ronay 2018-06-18T04:00:00Z If the ball-boy was dawdling, the crowd would roar for more urgency. Liverpool through after Mohamed Salah goal is too much for Manchester City 2018-04-10T04:00:00Z But that was nearly four months — and a shockingly dawdling free agent cycle — ago. Jake Arrieta is still out there, but Nationals are rolling with A.J. Cole at least for now 2018-03-01T05:00:00Z So, stop dawdling with tweets and town halls on federal options regarding armed teachers, who, like police officers, would then be strapped even after they leave the schoolhouse. Teachers contract addresses school safety, security 2018-02-22T05:00:00Z Alarm bells rang at the other end, too, when a dawdling Matic allowed Long to step in front of him and fire at De Gea from near the penalty spot. Romelu Lukaku injured as Manchester United held by Southampton 2017-12-30T05:00:00Z Giant Expectations got the jump on the rest and Stevens was stunned that he went largely unchallenged through a dawdling pace to get the win. Gary Stevens rides one long shot to victory at Santa Anita, nearly wins with another 2017-12-26T05:00:00Z So what will be the upshot for public officials who spent months dawdling while vital business went unattended, and who failed to resolve it responsibly when they did get around to it? Editorials from around Pennsylvania 2017-11-29T05:00:00Z But the board also added a new rule to prevent players from dawdling before the match begins. Grand Slam Events Take Steps to Curb Mid-Match Retirements 2017-11-21T05:00:00Z There’s no excuse for the Federal Reserve’s dawdling—not even its obsessive concern that inflation is too low. The Fed Should Stop Worrying and Learn to Love Low Inflation 2017-09-17T04:00:00Z Corporations like BP and Wells Fargo have faced criticism for dawdling responses to cascading crises, while politicians from Bill Clinton to Anthony Weiner have had difficulty admitting to peccadilloes. Sean Spicer, United Airlines and the Fine Art of Repentance 2017-04-12T04:00:00Z They did not play again until Jan. 27, when Washington was in the midst of the its high point and Atlanta was dawdling. Wizards will open playoffs against Atlanta Hawks 2017-04-11T04:00:00Z The New York Times complained about “the dawdling featureless” of the early episodes. Netflix/Marvel’s ‘Iron Fist’ epic fail, say viewers, critics 2017-03-23T04:00:00Z But your generation will inherit our decades of dawdling, broken politics, cowardice, and moral bankruptcy. Trump and climate chaos: a letter to my daughter 2017-03-14T04:00:00Z Roberts also said he would not mind baseball implementing a 30-second pitch clock in order to remove dawdling on the mound. Hyun-Jin Ryu getting closer to appearing in games for Dodgers 2017-02-22T05:00:00Z But the opposition is dawdling, largely to better prepare for presidential elections slated for next autumn. Huge Protests Continue Against South Korea's Leader 2016-11-28T05:00:00Z As the day wears on, supporters and gawkers start trickling in, armed with selfie sticks and “Make America Great Again” hats, dawdling in the lobby or sitting in a Starbucks that overlooks the main entrance. Trump Tower: President-elect HQ and a political sideshow 2016-11-21T05:00:00Z It took the winning team’s autonomous vehicle nearly seven hours to complete the 132-mile course, a dawdling pace of less than 20 miles per hour. Stepping Up Security for an Internet-of-Things World 2016-10-16T04:00:00Z That aspect of autumn appears to be dawdling a bit in part of the region. In the Washington region, the feel of autumn, but not the hues 2016-10-15T04:00:00Z It’s the game getting out of the way for a few graceful moments, a way to encourage appreciation of subtleties that might otherwise go unnoticed–part panoramic dawdling, part 3D screen saver. 'Abzu' Could Be the Most Beautiful Game You'll Play All Year 2016-08-02T04:00:00Z But the most striking thing about marathon golf is the absence of the dawdling that is typical throughout the sport. How to Play 153 Holes of Golf in One Day 2016-07-07T04:00:00Z If that was it, then it was a particularly underwhelming experience and we returned crestfallen to dawdling along in the midriff of Division Two as we had done for several years under Steve Coppell’s management. How the 1990 FA Cup changed Crystal Palace, Manchester United and Liverpool 2016-05-20T04:00:00Z Last Monday, the Cincinnati Reds observed Syndergaard’s dawdling delivery with runners on base and stole five bases, uncovering a soft spot in his previously perceived ironclad makeup. Giants Discover, and Exploit, a Weakness Against Syndergaard 2016-05-01T04:00:00Z But was EPA’s dawdling in largely poor and black Flint an aberration or part of a pattern of lax oversight and enforcement? EPA’s fall in Flint, an aberration or part of a pattern? 2016-01-28T05:00:00Z Through the haze of scheming and months of posturing, dawdling and resistance, what has emerged is a snapshot of how the owners align. With N.F.L. Relocation Fates in Owners’ Hands, the Games Begin 2016-01-12T05:00:00Z The TV is the dawdling cousin of the phone. Failed mobile operating systems find life after death on the TV 2016-01-07T05:00:00Z The military’s explanation for its initial dawdling campaign seems dubious. U.S. Bombing of ISIS Oil Facilities Showing Progress 2015-12-13T05:00:00Z Mr. Girondi accuses the cancer center of dawdling on developing a gene therapy that could potentially cure his son of an inherited blood disease called beta thalassemia, or Cooley’s anemia. Lawsuit Accuses Sloan Kettering of Delaying Gene Therapy for Rare Blood Disease 2015-10-15T04:00:00Z Walsh is dawdling through Manhattan engrossed in a discussion of investing strategy. Meet Patrick Walsh, The Do-It-Yourself Hedge Fund Activist You've Never Heard Of 2015-07-29T04:00:00Z On the day that Major League Baseball began implementing warnings and fines under its pace of play rules, there was no dawdling. Harvey outduels Scherzer; Mets break away from Nationals 4-0 2015-05-01T04:00:00Z And of his delayed sale of Tesco shares, he admitted that he “made a big mistake with this investment by dawdling.” The leadership wisdom in Warren Buffett’s letter 2015-03-02T05:00:00Z “I made a big mistake with this investment by dawdling.” Warren Buffett Chronicles 2014 And 50 Years Of Berkshire Hathaway In Annual Letter 2015-02-28T05:00:00Z The tedious dawdling between pitches, by batters and by pitchers, can perhaps be addressed by a clock. As Baseball Games Drag On, Timelessness Becomes Less Than Sacred 2015-01-17T05:00:00Z In soccer they call it time-wasting: kicking the ball into the stands, dawdling over a free kick, feigning injury. Inaction and Inequality on Women’s World Cup Turf Issue 2014-12-04T05:00:00Z In game two, with a 1-1 count in the first inning, Billy Butler’s dawdling helped pushed the time between pitches to 54 seconds. Five Ways to Tweak Baseball, Before the Next 'Worst World Series Ever' 2014-11-05T05:00:00Z Office technology company Brother International Corporation says workers waste an average of 13 hours a year dawdling at their company’s printer and copier stations. The 1 Spot in Your Office You Need to Avoid at All Costs 2014-10-27T04:00:00Z According to Joe Romm, “…adding more vital signs just gives people more things to argue about. Indeed, the whole Victor and Kennel approach would be an excuse for more dawdling.” Getting Beyond the 2-Degree Threshold on Global Warming 2014-10-03T04:00:00Z The place is anathema to pedestrian dawdling: very different from the LA historical sites in, say, Alex Holdridge’s In Search Of A Midnight Kiss. The top 10 … cities on film 2014-08-18T04:00:00Z There’s a sitting room furnished like a small library and a breakfast room that is made for dawdling over newspapers. The Best Rooms At Florence's Only Townhouse Hotel: JK Place 2014-08-12T04:00:00Z He said he welcomed tweaks before the final vote but made clear there is no reason for further dawdling. ‘Ban the box’ bill gets D.C. Council’s tentative approval Fortunately, there was no dawdling here, despite Sterling’s professed contrition. The NBA’s Response to Donald Sterling’s Racism Got Everything Right 2014-04-30T20:47:48Z All this multidimensionality and complexity of the real science of climate impacts was really inconvenient for activists who, understandably, were trying to get governments to stop dawdling. Getting Beyond the 2-Degree Threshold on Global Warming 2014-10-03T04:00:00Z The huge area to be searched, and myriad nations to be coordinated, means fingers are being squarely pointed at the initial dawdling by Malaysia’s armed forces. Another Lesson from MH370: Nobody is Watching Malaysian Airspace 2014-03-17T09:56:38Z He thinks Obama made a huge mistake in not arming the Syrian rebels and charges the president with dawdling for two years while this civil war intensified. Viewpoint: Obama’s Irony is McCain’s Agony 2013-09-04T17:35:49Z The committee members’ consensus: they didn’t like the hours-worked idea, because it might encourage dawdling. You're the Boss Blog: Sharing the Profits Requires Some Tough Calls 2013-08-27T11:00:50Z As these bosses saw it, dawdling in the ranks was hurting everyone’s ability to get things done. When CEOs Run Into Trouble, They Cry: 'Let's Go Faster!" 2013-08-19T13:14:00Z If I were an activist working in Europe pushing for climate policy at the time and pushing the G8 and others to stop dawdling I would have done the same thing. Getting Beyond the 2-Degree Threshold on Global Warming 2014-10-03T04:00:00Z But Mr Leon adds that if anything good came out of Marikana it is that it acted as a wake-up call for the government "which will force it to stop dawdling on industry reforms". Marikana: Economic impact one year on 2013-08-15T23:14:39Z In France anyone dawdling in the overtaking lane will soon be flashed or tailgated. What's wrong with middle-lane hogging? 2013-06-05T12:41:35Z Buchholz struggled to keep a brisk tempo, dawdling on the mound with runners on base. On Baseball: In Boston, John Farrell’s Return Gives Pitching Staff a Boost 2013-06-02T01:30:57Z They must carry satnavs, which direct their movements round the stacks and flash warnings from managers to stop dawdling or chatting with colleagues. One tax law for us and another for Amazon 2013-05-18T23:06:14Z When it comes to dawdling, however, even she cannot match the I.R.S. DealBook: A Dickensian Delay at the I.R.S. 2013-05-16T14:12:45Z Thankfully, Williams' bag is not too heavy, because this is no dawdling round at Broadmoor, a historic course that is one of Williams' favorites. Washington's Chris Williams more than just the No. 1 amateur golfer in the world 2013-04-15T02:19:04Z He was slow, and even playing in the Masters at his tender age isn't an excuse for dawdling over shots. Column: Green jackets deal Chinese teen a low blow 2013-04-13T01:51:09Z Even allowing an extra minute for the group of players dawdling up ahead on the golf course, he'd still want to change his club more quickly than the five-minute intervals you suggest. The Fiver 2013-04-08T15:03:09Z An Amazon warehouse, where workers carry satnavs 'that flash warnings from managers to stop dawdling'. One tax law for us and another for Amazon 2013-05-18T23:06:14Z To my British ear the word suburbs brings up a vision of the place where I grew up - gardens, laurel hedges, children dawdling to school and, at the weekend, the scent of Sunday lunch. Damascus - a tale of two cities 2012-12-09T15:48:44Z Much dawdling enroute occured as I stared, fascinated at the thin beds of worn pebbles visible every so often through the sandstone sequence. Time Is Not Made to Flow in Vain: Eternity and Apocalypse in Assynt and Mars 2012-10-03T17:45:06.937Z “Right now, we’re looking real good,” he said, and expressed a heartfelt desire that the dawdling storm would soon move on. Reporter’s Notebook: Army Corps Keeps an Eye on Storm 2012-08-30T01:28:26Z Today I'm going with the flow, dawdling the day away at a leaf's pace through some of the most gorgeous country in God's creation. Relax and Go Tubing 2012-06-11T17:20:04.853Z I must not go on dawdling and reproaching myself all my life.” The Contemporary Review, Volume 36, October 1879 2012-04-18T02:00:17.060Z She'd make a blurry tortoise crick his blurry neck looking round to see why she was dawdling behind. The Vanity Girl 2012-04-12T02:00:26.883Z I'm late—I ought to have taken a cab, instead of that dawdling bus. Punch, or the London Charivari, October 28th 1893 2012-04-05T02:00:37.137Z I have noticed lately in Elaine a very languid and dawdling way of doing things. The Tree of Knowledge A Novel 2012-04-05T02:00:35.603Z We are dawdling along thirty miles a day through Burgundy, sick to death of the bare vine-stakes, and longing to see a festooned vineyard of Lombardy. Pencillings by the Way Written During Some Years of Residence and Travel in Europe 2012-03-19T02:00:26.650Z Shortly after Fairy's departure, Mr. Hickox came dawdling along towards his own home. The Dorrance Domain 2012-03-10T03:00:14.767Z “Take your books,” he commanded, “open and study the lesson the remainder of the hour, and the first one I see dawdling or whispering will be sent back to the session room.” The Camp Fire Girls' Larks and Pranks or, The House of the Open Door 2012-02-21T03:00:19.740Z Only there must be no dawdling, and the women who were permitted to look on must subordinate their uncontrolled natures to the business in hand. The Eldest Son 2012-01-24T03:00:28.780Z George, as usual, discovered that he had been dawdling in the portals of his desires, when the doors came to with a bang. The White Peacock 2012-01-14T03:00:21.627Z The men are doing something noble, not dawdling away these glorious days in selling tape and ribbons. Nurse and Spy in the Union Army The Adventures and Experiences of a Woman in Hospitals, Camps, and Battle-Fields 2012-01-07T03:00:15.907Z "I always make it a point to be punctual," Lamb dawdling in the background, overheard him say. Hooded Detective, Volume III No. 2, January, 1942 2012-01-04T03:00:28.750Z Why should these fifty idlers spend their days dawdling about the streets? The Fourth Estate, vol.1 2011-12-25T03:00:10.170Z They were dawdling on the road or sheltering somewhere out of the rain—we had passed an open shed—so as to ensure arriving too late for us to get on to the next stage. By Desert Ways to Baghdad 2011-12-18T03:00:22.240Z I believe if everything were settled at this moment I should still be dawdling in this St. Petersburg of yours in my present condition of mind. Uncle's dream; And The Permanent Husband 2011-12-08T03:00:25.597Z Then shouts of rage and fierce orders burst from his lips; in his anger he dashed hither and thither, shouting at his men, and even striking those who seemed to be dawdling. A Boy of the Dominion A Tale of Canadian Immigration 2011-12-05T03:00:47.097Z As he came out of the gate Tom Hayhurst, who had been dawdling about for him for the past half-hour, stepped quickly forward; then seeing who was with him stopped abruptly, and drew back. Grit Lawless 2011-12-01T03:00:18.137Z There was not even a barrack in the neighbourhood, with its successive bevies of foolish young officers to prey upon—only Leamington with its dawdling crowds of nobodies. The Life of Thomas Wanless, Peasant 2011-11-27T03:00:11.777Z Six months ago, I shouldn't have thought it possible that a life deliberately founded on pottering about and dawdling through the day would be endurable or even possible. The Letters of William James, Vol. II 2011-11-24T03:00:48.427Z When at last they started on the last stage of their journey the engine went dawdling along the branch line in a style which both, in their then frame of mind, found equally trying. A Duel 2011-11-20T03:00:13.840Z What a happy revelation for the friends and family of Andrew Vane, who has been dawdling in your arms, while another woman as much as held his plighted word! The Transgression of Andrew Vane a novel 2011-11-17T03:00:37.293Z They have half an hour’s dawdling, for play it cannot be called, as they are in the drawing-room, and then they learn two hours more. The Life and Letters of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Volume II (of 2) 2011-11-10T03:00:10.110Z The dawdling gait and the slouchy attitude told her it was Culligore, and she braced her nerves for an ordeal. The Gray Phantom 2011-11-04T02:00:21.427Z A little more dawdling and it would be done. Mr. Punch in the Highlands 2011-11-01T02:00:23.677Z Ever since," groaned Anthony; "while I have been dawdling on that cursed yacht. A Humble Enterprise 2011-10-29T02:00:12.483Z But there must be no dawdling, and the class must feel that it has only a limited time, say five minutes at the most, to get the help it needs. The Teaching of Geometry 2011-10-12T02:00:52.133Z And, between ourselves, I wouldn't mind—now and then, you know—just dawdling about among the shops and people, as you and the Trotters do! The Travelling Companions a Story in Scenes 2011-10-12T02:00:49.553Z I can see no excuse for his dawdling like this. The Brass Bottle A Farcical Fantastic Play in Four Acts 2011-10-11T02:01:04.737Z You must be aware of stumbling over a propensity which easily besets you from the habit of not having your time fully employed—I mean what the women very expressively call dawdling. Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Volume 6 2011-10-07T02:00:22.270Z Let him beware of too long dawdling in the latter place, and let him avoid smoking there. Neuralgia and the Diseases that Resemble it 2011-10-03T02:00:31.460Z Those at the board should be limited as to time, for otherwise a premium is placed on mere dawdling. The Teaching of Geometry 2011-10-12T02:00:52.133Z “It is ever so much better,” she told Eedie, “going all alone and enjoying things, than having a dressed-up doll of a flunkey dawdling behind you carrying wraps.” The Island of Gold A Sailor's Yarn 2011-10-03T02:00:28.483Z Amory, dawdling like that, and then, when spoken to, to have the face to say that she was hurrying back home!—— A Crooked Mile 2011-10-03T02:00:26.870Z His daughter looked after him until he disappeared; gazed around her at the dawdling assortment of guests aboard, then lifted her quiet eyes to Willowmere. Quick Action 2011-09-26T02:00:28.347Z He slowed down and began dawdling, hoping that he would receive some guidance. Wang the Ninth The Story of a Chinese Boy 2011-09-12T02:00:25.620Z She had been dawdling and dreaming longer than she supposed. Pink Gods and Blue Demons 2011-08-31T02:01:22.827Z They work very hard, no dawdling of any kind, and by one or two o'clock they have finished for the day and are off back to the golf club as fast as they can go. The Happy Golfer Being Some Experiences, Reflections, and a Few Deductions of a Wandering Golfer 2011-08-21T02:00:29.747Z They naturally took comfort in each other's society, and were much together, riding, walking, dancing, or dawdling, for, at Nice, no one can be very industrious during the gay season. Little Women or Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy 2011-08-18T02:00:21.810Z In one month alone, I lost three hours of this "human life" dawdling in waiting rooms. The doctor will see you ... eventually 2011-08-02T06:02:03Z And are you now still dawdling at that dish? The Deipnosophists, or Banquet of the Learned of Athen?us 2011-08-02T02:00:21.843Z In one month alone, I lost three hours of this “human life” dawdling in waiting rooms. The Consumer: The Doctor Will See You ... Eventually 2011-08-01T19:24:54Z Oh, Katy, and I have been dawdling up here for hours! Molly Brown of Kentucky 2011-07-16T02:00:18.603Z "You did," said one of the dawdling group. Barnaby A Novel 2011-07-12T02:00:39.777Z One laggard servant-girl with her dusting-brush, or one dawdling visitor lingering in the way, might have prevented all this and kept them on the distant footing they had before occupied. The Coward A Novel of Society and the Field in 1863 2011-07-08T02:00:16.223Z When he was gone Esm�e was seized with a profound fit of dawdling. The Cup of Trembling and Other Stories 2011-07-07T02:00:29.180Z But it must be real work, and no dawdling or time lost. How to Get Strong and How to Stay So 2011-07-01T02:00:12.520Z It is not advisable to tell people all this as soon as they confess their habit of dawdling in the morning, for they must be gradually brought to discipline themselves. Psychotherapy 2011-06-19T02:00:20.053Z One was much taken up with shopping and visits to her mantua- maker; several were engrossed with fancy work; some went out a great deal; all had an air of dawdling. A Letter of Credit 2011-05-20T02:00:40.410Z I wish I was a gentleman—one of the miserable dawdling things that know nothing else than small talk and the use of their heels. The Coward A Novel of Society and the Field in 1863 2011-07-08T02:00:16.223Z It seems that wherever we look, there is a clock or a calendar pressuring us to move faster and stop dawdling. Deadline Pressure Distorts Our Sense of Time 2011-05-10T12:45:00.253Z After falling much too far back off the dawdling pace in last, he finished his final quarter-mile even faster than Animal Kingdom to get up for eighth. Derby.com: Animal Kingdom good bet to take Triple Crown 2011-05-09T04:13:46Z They do a certain amount of dawdling over their work. Psychotherapy 2011-06-19T02:00:20.053Z Does this dawdling with Norman women bode some good to the Saxon cause? The Last of the Vikings 2011-05-09T02:00:04.200Z Now, within the limits of a five-act play, there is no space for dawdling. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 60, No. 369, July 1846 2011-04-29T02:00:09.217Z The majority of people are perfectly capable of interacting with retail staff without spitting on them or whipping their hides like dawdling cattle, but planet Earth still harbours more than its fair share of disappointments. Charlie Brooker 2011-04-03T23:05:04Z There can be no dawdling with these as with the Irish social measures. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 60, No. 370, August 1846 2011-04-01T02:00:28.747Z They all three spend a long dawdling afternoon at the Little House. Doctor Cupid 2011-03-13T03:00:23.987Z He trembled when he saw that he could take so kindly to dawdling ways. Miss Theodora A West End Story 2011-02-26T03:00:48.940Z No one was up, and there was another train at half-past nine, but Uncle said that, considering the work that lay before us, we had better not begin by dawdling. Seeing France with Uncle John 2011-02-26T03:00:47.827Z I have a notion to have you cashiered for dawdling along the road. The Courier of the Ozarks 2011-02-09T03:00:43.267Z What are you dawdling about for?' exclaimed Wimble on the spur of the moment. The Promise of Air 2011-02-02T03:00:23.997Z The American's collection of Murphy's pass was sublime, his turn between Robert Huth and Shawcross too slick for the dawdling defenders. Fulham 2-0 Stoke City 2011-01-22T17:35:59Z "Well, you were sauntering around, then, dawdling around, whatever you want it called, but you were there!" The Diamond Pin 2011-01-22T03:00:15.907Z I do think there is a happy medium between rising at five and "dawdling," but of course I didn't tell him so. Seeing France with Uncle John 2011-02-26T03:00:47.827Z She has seen you, though, at church, and dawdling about town, and she called you 'Sir Charles Coldstream,' on the spot. Silver Pitchers: and Independence A Centennial Love Story 2011-01-13T03:01:02.190Z The Frenchman was dawdling and dispossessed by Walcott for the third, and withdrawn shortly afterwards. Arsenal v Chelsea: player ratings 2010-12-27T22:34:08Z Less than a decade ago, Germans were wondering whether that was an apt description for their own dawdling nation. Germany's Growth: New Rules, Old Companies 2010-09-30T20:00:00Z There are even hints that the traveling coyotes may have been up to more than just dawdling with a wolf or two. Mysteries That Howl and Hunt 2010-09-27T20:40:00Z The Celtic defence were caught dawdling as César tried to force his way into the box, a gaggle of players doing just enough to stifle his finish. Braga 3-0 Celtic 2010-07-28T21:28:00Z The heat browned Oakmont's treacherous greens throughout the afternoon and slowed play to a pace that was dawdling at best. Lang surprises with 69 at US Women's Open 2010-07-09T07:52:00Z Some Democrats complain that Mr. Obama has been ineffective in speaking out, while administration officials say the legislative dawdling confuses voters. Democrats Shifting Focus Back to Jobs Creation 2010-05-18T02:13:00Z Newmarket 2.15 Audemar was unsuited by being asked to make up ground from behind a dawdling early gallop at Ascot last time. Talking Horse: Daily horse racing blog 2010-05-15T10:16:00Z It was, indeed, a different time, with minimal dawdling. In ?78 Classic Game, Things Were Simpler, and Quicker 2010-05-06T02:53:00Z Bai Jove, though, they ought to be prosecuted for dawdling so.” By Birth a Lady The column crawled up country at a slow rate, for such a mixed company travels perforce at the pace of its most dawdling units. The Great Mogul When the major entered his room, Jereboam, his ancient body-servant, was dawdling about putting things to rights, his seamed visage under his white wool suggesting a charred stump beneath a crisp powdering of snow. The Valiants of Virginia I thought Miraflores might possibly be on the Amazon last night, and so, while you sat dawdling over letter-paper and pen, little Howard Stanley was up and doing. The Key to Yesterday While the Colonel was dawdling across the water, the telegraph and the swift "Liners," had alarmed the world. A Republic Without a President and Other Stories There was a banker, a broker, a yachtsman, a diplomat, a merchant, and a sprinkling of dawdling men of leisure, and their wives, daughters, and cousins. With Edge Tools The Australians played a manly game, without any dawdling or shirking; And if they didn't avoid defeat why it wasn't for want of hard working. Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 98, June 14 1890 In such a case as that the envoy always departed; he never sat gaping and dawdling before the city. The Spoils of Poynton Then Loring pulled it in, and again they subsided to a dawdling foot pace. Shadows of Flames A Novel So vexed sometimes was she with the men dawdling over their trifling bit of work that she would rise and box their ears, but they just laughed and thought it a fine joke. The White Queen of Okoyong A True Story of Adventure Heroism and Faith In the library of an imposing, but new, grey stone mansion on Chicago's Lake Shore Drive two women were dawdling together over Petrarch's "Canzoniere" in the original. With Edge Tools Pierre Dupont, better known than any of these, seemed at one time likely to be a poet of the first rank, but unfortunately wasted his talent in Bohemian dawdling and disorder. A Short History of French Literature Nothing can be more unhealthful than the dawdling habit of wading out ankle-deep or knee-deep, and waiting to get your courage up. Harper's Round Table, June 4, 1895 She had counted the hours until Port Said should be reached, and now! here she was sitting dawdling in her cabin, dreading to leave it, and face what lay ahead... An Unknown Lover Dinner over, the heat of the afternoon was got through in delightfully easy and dawdling fashion. Renshaw Fanning's Quest A Tale of the High Veldt Sonnenkamp stormed and scolded over these dawdling Europeans, who did not know how to put a railroad to its proper use; he had arranged, indeed, by telegram for a clear track. Villa Eden: The Country-House on the Rhine The everlasting dawdling about with the slops of the tea tackle, gives them a relish for nothing that requires strength and activity. Cottage Economy To Which Is Added The Poor Man's Friend Women have a well-deserved reputation for dawdling over trifles when important matters wait, but that morning Prunella broke all previous records. The Moralist While we were dawdling about in the neighbourhood of the village, one of the servants, an old Maltese, discovered a boat with ten or twelve oars, lying in the vicinity. Visits To Monasteries in the Levant I am so tired of leave, of dawdling, of—almost everything. A Soldier's Trial An Episode of the Canteen Crusade At all events, no healthy man had any business dawdling away a single minute of so rare a morning. The Destroying Angel It was dawdling along and keeping pace with him when I saw it first. Cleek of Scotland Yard Detective Stories She went on, having no time for further dawdling. The Bartlett Mystery Time was life, and life was far too good to be squandered in dawdling. Cecilia A Story of Modern Rome With a grim look he went into the sitting-room, where his wife was dawdling over her tambour frame; and Polly sped up the stairs. Crestlands A Centennial Story of Cane Ridge Negroes—the men in dirty dusters, the women in smart calicoes, girls in dowdy muslins and boy's hats—and mountain whites, coatless men, shoeless women—hung about the counters dawdling away their small change. John March, Southerner He was a rich mining king from Colorado, by the name of Harvey Farnham, whom I had met in Denver, when I had been dawdling through America three or four years ago. The House by the Lock After making the tour of the grounds, walking round the lake, and dawdling some time in the shrubberies, I opened a small gate into a lane which led towards the common. Ellen Middleton—A Tale Colonel Cummings was harrowed by Jamieson's months of anguish and illness, and angered by the indifference and dawdling of the captors in the face of his demand and threat. The Plow-Woman On this morning the forewoman was obliged to give her repeated and sharp reproofs for soiling her materials and for dawdling over her work. The Long Day The Story of a New York Working Girl As Told by Herself He began to prepare some Vienna paste, but in a slow, dawdling manner that irritated my nerves to the last degree. Stories by American Authors, Volume 2 We walked much on the terrace—the inevitable dawdling promenade of all German watering-places—it reeked of Serene Highness. Miss Cayley's Adventures The little widow was positively dawdling over the preparations for supper. The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries Masterpieces of German Literature Vol. 19 The abominable cooking, the dawdling progress,—how was one to endure them? The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 91, May, 1865 Lounging here and dawdling there, Lying out 'most anywhere About the barn-yard. Cole's Funny Picture Book No. 1 No one can accuse you of dawdling over it. The Brass Bottle “Virginia!” scolded the Widow, when for the hundredth time she had discovered her dawdling at her packing. Shadow Mountain "It might not be much fun, but, anyway, it would be much better than dawdling away the whole day." A Tale of the Summer Holidays Instead of dawdling away whole evenings in gossip, they had some light employment, and worked as they talked. Hope Mills or, Between Friend and Sweetheart Some colored persons were dawdling around the depot, and a few lazy white folks passing down the street, stopped to look at us as we got out of the cars. Phemie Frost's Experiences I guess they'd been waiting outside and got tired of my dawdling. Little Brother “I found them dawdling and gossiping in the street, forgetting altogether that you were waiting for your evening meal until they came on board.” The Cat of Bubastes A Tale of Ancient Egypt If it had not been for Dodds, he might have been with them now, instead of dawdling away the whole of the morning doing nothing. A Tale of the Summer Holidays And in that vast uncertain and inimical place, far out from shore, there rode a schooner of twenty tons, dawdling unafraid, her small sails spread for a breeze, in hope. The Cruise of the Shining Light Anyway, he had no right dawdling at the window as long as he did.” The Spoilers of the Valley The custom of massing the various trades and manufactures adds to the picturesque joy of shopping or dawdling in Damascus. Out-of-Doors in the Holy Land Impressions of Travel in Body and Spirit Then, presto, change!––and on the surface reappeared Bye, the long, slender, blue-eyed, dreaming, dawdling, irresponsible writer. A Breath of Prairie and other stories He could not help dawdling a little before proceeding with the work of destruction. Cleo The Magnificent Or, the Muse of the Real But there was no dawdling in Duet Two, West Dormitory. Ruth Fielding at Briarwood Hall or Solving the Campus Mystery We have been dawdling about in this wretched country long enough. Captain Bayley's Heir: A Tale of the Gold Fields of California "Now, no dawdling; set down and be quick about it—sup up your porridge without letting a drop of it get on your clean pinafores, or I'll smack you." Good Luck Instead of dawdling along behind, as every one expected, Chester, without an instant’s hesitation, pushed to the front and set the pace. A Breath of Prairie and other stories “Well, I don’t mind joining you, and that’s the truth, for we have been dawdling about, and I am a trifle chilly myself.” Not Like Other Girls We are a happy, dawdling, undisciplined, slovenly lot. Rambles Beyond Railways; or, Notes in Cornwall taken A-foot Will equal labour-time pay for all not lead to universal dawdling, shrinkage in production, and consequent starvation? British Socialism An Examination of Its Doctrines, Policy, Aims and Practical Proposals Then I idled outside amid the crowd of women who were dawdling before the attractive windows, as is the feminine habit. Hushed Up! A Mystery of London I’m not in the habit of dawdling over anything. The Maids of Paradise I could sail a ship across the Atlantic while you are dawdling here. The End of the Rainbow For Art—and the art we unwittingly practice whenever we take pleasure in nature—is without appeal either to the man who is straining at business and to the man who is dawdling in amusement. Laurus Nobilis Chapters on Art and Life To prevent dawdling, could it be ascertained how long it should take to repair a machine, paint a picture, amputate a leg, plough an acre? British Socialism An Examination of Its Doctrines, Policy, Aims and Practical Proposals But—when you married me, you didn’t marry a dawdling dude chattering ‘advanced ideas’ with his head full of libertinism. Ainslee's, Vol. 15, No. 6, July 1905 But twenty of them could not save the book, which, after dawdling till close upon its end, huddles itself up in a few pages, chiefly of récit, in a singularly inartistic fashion. A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century When he had taken sufficient time to study her character, he decided that the inelegant mirth, and ungoverned vanity of Amaranthé were preferable to the dawdling insipidity of Claribel. The Flower Basket A Fairy Tale These favourites, men like the fat La Tremouille, found their profit in dawdling and delaying, as politicians generally do. The Red True Story Book He had no energy to rise again; he relapsed into slow, dawdling ways, perpetually regretting and dwelling on the past, yet making no effort to retrieve it. The Toilers of the Field “I measured it this morning while you were dawdling over your breakfast,” answered Croyden. In Her Own Right It was all accomplished with such celerity that before the dawdling punchers had entered the bunk-house, 95 Buck was out of sight among the bushes which thickly lined the creek. Shoe-Bar Stratton "Well, you've made us awfully cheerful," said Major Hunt, when dinner was over, and they were dawdling over coffee. Captain Jim Because you’re too spirited and vigorous to spend your life dawdling in society. 'Firebrand' Trevison I knew you would soon come around to it," said the Captain; "what could I do dawdling about at home, with just enough money to keep me and get me into mischief? Tom Brown at Oxford If we had started then we should possibly have reached town before the mail had started, but as we were both tired of dawdling about, I proposed that we should extend our tour. The Motor Pirate Why the deuce wasn’t he himself big and strong, silent and purposeful, instead of being a dawdling fool of an artist? The Place of Honeymoons Of course neither pleasure nor task went forward very smoothly, but Rosemary enjoyed the sensation of dawdling. Rainbow Hill No, I have been dawdling about the grounds all the afternoon. Vixen, Volume III. The widow lived her languid drawing-room life, dawdling away long slow days that left no more impression behind them than the drift of rose-leaves across the velvet lawn before her windows. Vixen, Volume II. Why, Teresa! dawdling here, while the maids— Exit Teresa. The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor Volume I, Number 3 I have walked lately at five miles an hour with the Widgers, and I do not relish dawdling at the rate of two with these people here. A Poor Man's House Suddenly a postern door banged, and then a slow, dawdling step was heard in the distance, and Martin perceived, approaching the "lime walk," My Lord Lackaday, with his fishing-rod and tackle. Fifty-Two Stories For Girls Turning away, he proceeded to the untidy parlor where he found Ellice dawdling over a paper. Prescott of Saskatchewan She hated the grime, and the smoke, and the smell of boiling oil; and she 64 hated this dawdling on the open seas, with never a glimpse of land. All the Brothers Were Valiant To them she was just the wife of a country parson dawdling through the leafy lanes in a pony-trap. The Tragic Bride He waked to find himself, in satin and gold lace, dawdling about a vain and licentious court. With Spurs of Gold Heroes of Chivalry and their Deeds The members of a decaying community are, for the most part, languid and indolent; their very gestures are dawdling and slouching, the opposite of smart. The World's Greatest Books — Volume 15 — Science The men on the bank were dawdling through the last few minutes, waiting to 138 lay down their tools, and they offered the gang their sympathy as they passed. Prescott of Saskatchewan Tempus," observed the giant drover, "fugits like the devil in this dawdling world o' sin, as the poet has it—eh, Weasel? The Reckoning We don’t want to go dawdling about in pretty places. The Peril Finders The dread that oppressed her was lest, arriving too late in Paris, she should find that she had missed happiness by reason of this wretched dawdling in Southern France. Comedies of Courtship How different from the delicious waywardness of Eastern airs, whose charm is all by the bye, in precious dawdlings and digressions! The Valley of the Kings The man drove on, but Kermode was not to be daunted by such a difficulty; besides, he had noticed Jim, the hired man, dawdling about the outside of the stable. Prescott of Saskatchewan Now it is quite evident that there is no place of concealment in this room, so there is nothing to be gained by dawdling here. Two Gallant Sons of Devon A Tale of the Days of Queen Bess A dawdling August Perseid scratched a thin mark of light across the blackness. Vigorish It is shameful how Eugene has gone on, hardly a day at the factory, and you two driving about and mooning on balconies and dawdling through the grounds. Floyd Grandon's Honor Here I sit, dawdling along with this packing as if the morning were not fairly flying by, and he'll be here on the five o'clock train. Mary Ware's Promised Land “They stand dawdling and looking, till their lips and noses are all blue and red, and they are never up to any fun.” Deerbrook There was no dawdling over dressing on this occasion. A Little Miss Nobody Or, With the Girls of Pinewood Hall A scolding awaited her, as usual, first for “dawdling,” and then for spilling a few drops of water on the brick floor as she set down the heavy pails. For the Master's Sake A Story of the Days of Queen Mary These thoughts jumbled themselves together in her mind, as they dawdled back to the camp, the happy dawdling of lovers. There was a King in Egypt In business, such a man is nowhere; and in social life a dawdling, dilatory man or woman is simply a pest. St. Nicholas Magazine for Boys and Girls, V. 5, Nov 1877-Nov 1878 Scribner's Illustrated The six were dawdling away our time one fine Sunday in Lynhurst Park. Aladdin & Co. A Romance of Yankee Magic That very morning she established her position, after a sharp but decisive battle with the airy "colored lady," who for some days had been dawdling about the house. Mam' Lyddy's Recognition 1908 He gave up dawdling, and fought it out briskly. Lines in Pleasant Places Being the Aftermath of an Old Angler This schedule represents the general practice in the best schools and under the best governesses, and the poorer schools differ mainly only in this, that they permit more dawdling work. The Education of American Girls He hated the women dawdling in its alleys, the men smoking in its corridors, the whole idle crowd, lunching in acres of table-crowded space. Mistress Anne Didn’t know how the fellow had the face to turn up at all, after dawdling away an extra six months. The Love Affairs of Pixie I saw how lame a thing my own journey was my leisurely dawdling back to my work. Cinderella in the South Twenty-Five South African Tales I knew that my mood had something of cruelty in it, because I discovered that I was purposely dawdling over my dinner, in order to keep the man longer than necessary on the rack. The Tale Of Mr. Peter Brown - Chelsea Justice From "The New Decameron", Volume III. “Do you suppose I’ve got leisure to be dawdling here with you!” Russian Fairy Tales A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore He was not, however, so deep in thought that he had no eyes for the passers-by, and his attention was suddenly attracted by a servant-girl dawdling along the opposite pavement. Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 22, September, 1878 Yet, even so, there was no margin for dawdling. Gallipoli Diary, Volume 2 We had followed the Orange from its mouth in a leisurely, dawdling manner, spending a few days, or perhaps a week, at those few spots where we found Hottentots or Bushmen. A Rip Van Winkle Of The Kalahari Seven Tales of South-West Africa And these long years spent in school and college, "dawdling over the frills," had been to no effect, whereas "a few weeks under intelligent educational direction accomplishes marvels." On the Firing Line in Education Most of us waste a vast amount of precious time dawdling and idling. Pushing to the Front Nor could it be fair that these men should be maintained in idleness or dawdling at the expense of the hard-working small shopkeepers. The Carbonels To a very large extent dawdling and make-believe. Expositions of Holy Scripture Second Corinthians, Galatians, and Philippians Chapters I to End. Colossians, Thessalonians, and First Timothy. I can’t be standing still all day while those dawdling dogs are bothering about after a hare; a gallop I must have!” Dr. Jolliffe's Boys So I began to use the “crib” regularly; and thus, getting my lessons quickly done, I gradually began to relapse into my habits of dawdling. Parkhurst Boys And Other Stories of School Life This is the only way to check the propensity to dawdling. Pushing to the Front The young ladies are dawdling in dressing-gowns over a bedroom breakfast, and exchanging mutual sarcasms and recriminations, blended with gall and bitterness flung back on last night’s party. Nearly Lost but Dearly Won I never did see such a girl for dawdling. Pixie O'Shaughnessy Come, let’s hear what you’ve got to say, young fellow; there’s plenty of work to be done here, I can tell you, without dawdling our time.” Reginald Cruden A Tale of City Life How soon I again fell a victim to dawdling the sequel will show. Parkhurst Boys And Other Stories of School Life How many hours have been wasted dawdling in bed, turning over and dreading to get up! Pushing to the Front Mrs Nash said “Shut up!” and the youth said “Shan’t shut up!” and Mrs Nash inquired why, if he was late, he did not go off instead of dawdling about there, like a gentleman? My Friend Smith A Story of School and City Life Erect and manly in bearing, he stepped along, never apparently in a hurry, never dawdling. Kilgorman A Story of Ireland in 1798 The only person seriously angry at the Prime Minister's "dawdling," was Mina Zabriska; and she had enjoyed no chance of telling him so. Tristram of Blent An Episode in the Story of an Ancient House But an evil spirit of dawdling seized me as I went. Parkhurst Boys And Other Stories of School Life The punctual man, the decided man, can do twice as much as the undecided and dawdling man who never quite knows what he wants. Pushing to the Front So I took my resolution, and determined to risk every thing rather than go on in this dawdling way, fretting my heart out. Cat and Dog Memoirs of Puss and the Captain Philander, a dawdling lover; so called from Philander, the Dutch knight mentioned above, who was wooed by Gabrina. Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook, Vol. 3 Of course, we must go as it's settled; but you won't catch me staying dawdling about, looking at the same old things over and over again as I see two years ago. Archie's Mistake Gradually my dawdling became more prolonged, until one day I found myself actually late. Parkhurst Boys And Other Stories of School Life Scott used to caution youth against the habit of dawdling, which creeps in at every crevice of unoccupied time and often ruins a bright life. Pushing to the Front For the land sakes, Eunice, look at the time and you dawdling over the table. A Little Girl in Old Salem He conducts his dawdling as if upon system; arrives at his appointment after time; gets to the railway station after the train has started; posts his letter when the box has closed. How to Get on in the World A Ladder to Practical Success The man who has a habit of dawdling or listlessness will show it in everything he does. How to Succeed or, Stepping-Stones to Fame and Fortune “Either you must conquer your habit of dawdling,” he said, “or it will conquer you.” Parkhurst Boys And Other Stories of School Life What a lesson to dawdling, shiftless, half-hearted men! Pushing to the Front So the lizard went on his way, passed the dawdling chameleon, and arriving first among men delivered his message of death, saying, "Let men die." The Belief in Immortality and the Worship of the Dead, Volume I (of 3) The Belief Among the Aborigines of Australia, the Torres Straits Islands, New Guinea and Melanesia In the windings of the road among the willow islands in the Platte he had come suddenly upon them, he riding at rapid gallop, they dawdling with loosened reins. Under Fire Everybody he meets suffers more or less from his malady, for dawdling becomes practically a disease. How to Succeed or, Stepping-Stones to Fame and Fortune May was not to be kept from the immense solace of making a clean breast to her former ally of her stupid dawdling and trifling, and the retribution which had at once befallen her. A Houseful of Girls "What is the price of that book?" at length asked a man who had been dawdling for an hour in the front store of Benjamin Franklin's newspaper establishment. Pushing to the Front And then a certain superfluous lantern, bleary with a night of service, came dawdling up the side of the train, and the conductor hove in sight, watch in hand. To The Front A Sequel to Cadet Days Then a few books were fetched in the same dawdling way, Louis all the while persuading himself—foolish boy—that he was merely occupying the time of walking across the room in reading. Louis' School Days A Story for Boys When Milly complained of his dawdling, the Baroness remarked with a curl of her lips,— "How do you expect an artist to work with his wife hanging over his brushes and counting every stroke?" One Woman's Life "Take that for dawdling, and be off with you!" Dick Lionheart We all felt when we had said good-bye to Venice that we had a definite object in view, and there was to be no more pleasant dawdling. My Friend the Chauffeur I was dawdling over a bit of sewing as I waited. The Fifth Wheel A Novel We arrived this afternoon, and have had an hour or two of delightful dawdling in the Abbey. Set in Silver Window displays had allured him, and dawdling throngs of Christmas shoppers had forced his feet into a snail's pace. The Tangled Threads And now these people are dawdling and doing nothing; and I have orders from the Pope not to leave until it is placed, so that it seems to me I shall be prevented. Michael Angelo Buonarroti Every man can have enough to eat and too much to drink by dawdling about with a gun. Diary of the Besieged Resident in Paris We were dawdling home from the westward on the flood. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 159, December 8, 1920 And start early, not waste any time dawdling round and talking. The Emigrant Trail Our style of farming is slovenly, dawdling, and stupid, and the waste, especially in manure, is immense. Thoughts on Educational Topics and Institutions When any clerk is caught idling or dawdling about these premises, he's turned out, neck and heels, with only just what he can scrape together on the shortest possible notice. The Brother Clerks A Tale of New-Orleans There is a great difference, however, between concentrating on dress until an effect is achieved, and then turning the mind to other subjects, and that tiresome dawdling, indefinite, fruitless way, to arrive at no convictions. Woman as Decoration A fly dawdling back to the town from the station, passed him, and pulled up, as he hesitated. Prisoners Fast Bound In Misery And Iron I should think we could stay here today and tomorrow, without seeming to be dawdling without reason. The Tiger of Mysore A Story of the War with Tippoo Saib The everlasting dawdling about with the slops of the tea-tackle gives them a relish for nothing that requires strength and activity. George Borrow The Man and His Books The dawdling walk and the dragging of one leg after the other, with intervals to stand and scratch, are a caution. To The Gold Coast for Gold, Vol. II A Personal Narrative I suppose if I had thought about it, I might have observed that though I was dawdling about, my nose and ears and fingers were not nipped. We and the World, Part I A Book for Boys He worked spasmodically, and spent hours dawdling about, accomplishing nothing, on his old neglected farm. Marjorie at Seacote "Not I. To tell the truth, his listless, dawdling way rather provokes me, and I have not been sorry to see less of him lately." A Canadian Heroine, Volume 1 A Novel Well, then I became rich, and I've been dawdling about ever since. Great Possessions It gives one the heart-ache to see their dawdling, idling, shuffling, shiftless style of spoiling time. To The Gold Coast for Gold, Vol. II A Personal Narrative "I'm a dawdling idiot," he said irritatedly to himself. Honey-Sweet Dear Alick, I have had a long, dawdling voyage up here, but enjoyed it much, and have seen and heard many curious things. Letters from Egypt The others had gone on, and were dawdling along the road, when Bob, at his usual sober trot, turned out of the lane—Doctor Morton driving with Bella, Mr. Percy on horseback. A Canadian Heroine, Volume 1 A Novel Do you think I give you wages for you to choose your own hours, and come dawdling up a quarter of an hour after my time?' Scenes of Clerical Life Out went Betty, seeing it was no good dawdling; for her master was resolute and formidable. The House by the Church-Yard To her surprise, she found that it was really pleasanter than dawdling over her toilette, and Louise good-naturedly gave her permission to take Honey-Sweet for a before-breakfast stroll to the arbor in the playground. Honey-Sweet The rather dawdling tones of the voice denied the truth of the words, and the busy Doctor was conscious of a slight sensation of hostility. Bella Donna A Novel I never remember dawdling along in so slow and apparently purposeless a manner as in crossing the arid deserts of Arizona—unless, indeed, it was in travelling by the Manchester and Milford line in Wales. The Land of Contrasts A Briton's View of His American Kin Diligent, careful, thorough work is the rule, and there can be found no semblance of approval for loafing or dawdling. The Vitalized School She was found en d�shabill� dawdling over a book, and affected to have forgotten the viceregal invitation—a studied insult, hardly to be endured. Great Singers, First Series Faustina Bordoni To Henrietta Sontag She thought you were simply dawdling, and wanted Sir Samuel to arrange for you to drive down with the newly arrived German tourists. The Motor Maid I knew that the poor girl from Kansas must get up with the sun, too, for her uncle was not the man to brook any dawdling. The Soldier of the Valley It was evident, from the amount of kit, dead animals, etc., on the road, that "Johnny Turk" had not been dawdling by the way! Through Palestine with the Twentieth Machine Gun Squadron We are afraid that he will turn out a sad, idle fellow, going dawdling about instead of keeping to his trade. The Vicissitudes of Bessie Fairfax While dawdling over these, he heard sundry wheels grinding about below the window, and the bumping and thumping of boxes, indicative of 'goings away,' for which he couldn't say he felt sorry. Mr. Sponge's Sporting Tour Mary Mathews!" she shouted at the top of her voice, "what are you dawdling about? Mark Hurdlestone Or, The Two Brothers And if Tim, there, goes dawdling after a woman, we shall stick to the ridges, and the foxes, and the rabbits. The Soldier of the Valley He was able to combine dawdling and development without sacrificing one for the other, wherein lies the proof that his vacations were not akin to those taken by most of us. The Husbands of Edith If I am not with them, it is a constant dawdling; they are evidently unwilling to exert themselves, they cannot carry their belts and bags, and their powers of eating and vomiting are astounding. The Last Journals of David Livingstone, in Central Africa, from 1865 to His Death, Volume I (of 2), 1866-1868 And this is the more remarkable, remembering, that even in the existing hard times, masons are getting 10s. 6d. a day of eight hours, and often a very dawdling eight hours too. Town Life in Australia He is terse, concentrated, and free from the important blunder of mistaking intellectual dawdling for meditation. Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson The question is this—I shall either have the estate back, which is as good as ruin, or I shall go on with him dawdling, which is rather worse. Life of Lord Byron, Vol. 3 With His Letters and Journals They were dawdling over their tea—Ned and Nellie were, not the waitresses—having dined exceedingly well on soup and fish and flesh and pudding. The Workingman's Paradise An Australian Labour Novel This dawdling and guzzling had a bad effect on my remaining people. The Last Journals of David Livingstone, in Central Africa, from 1865 to His Death, Volume I (of 2), 1866-1868 They are dawdling and dulcified to a deplorable degree. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 340, February, 1844 It's very well for Ma to tell about my dawdling habits. A Book for Kids Now Maurice Mangan had spoken of his dawdling about this house; but the fact was that he had his hands full from morning till night. Prince Fortunatus Mr. Stork had not gone very far, for a sad, rejected lover is a dawdling creature. The Curious Book of Birds With dawdling, laughing and good-comradeship we chose our bonbons, and getting back into the barouche we proceeded to crunch them as we drove on to Monceaux. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. XVI., December, 1880. When we returned from our journey, Lulu was among the first to greet us, and with a cordial animation quite unlike the gentle, dawdling way she used to have. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 73, November, 1863 At the jog of twenty miles an hour, even the sparrow could pass us on a short stretch, and the dawdling crow soon left us in the rear. Lippincott's Magazine, December, 1885 The young couple were dawdling over a late breakfast after a night at an ultra smart party. Best Short Stories The day was piping hot but magnificent; corridor, piazza, colonnade, and garden were empty of life, except for a listless negro servant dawdling here and there. The Firing Line Dolly broke into a light canter; this evidently was not an occasion for dawdling. Judith of the Plains He suggested dawdling awhile; but she would not. The Spinners He mentioned one or two bits of news from the paper, upon which she commented while dawdling over her egg. The Quest of the Silver Fleece A Novel "What on earth!"—said she, looking up from a bit of embroidery on which she was dawdling away her morning. Sevenoaks My master was an Oxford man, and when roused from dawdling, a scholar. Lazarre His industry with the gun was of a part with the impotent dawdling in the garden. Judith of the Plains Here am I dawdling over what happened indoors in the minds of two boys, while out of doors nations were battling against nations, and the whole world was in upheaval. Tell England A Study in a Generation In the morning she came down early, despite some dawdling over her toilet. The Quest of the Silver Fleece A Novel I see no amusement in dawdling over a lowland moor where the packs are as thick as chickens in a poultry-yard. The Life of Froude And so the years passed in toil, in pleasure, and in attainment—active years that were filled with glorious doing, and with never a heavy moment or idle wasting of time or vain dawdling. Bobby of the Labrador They marched northward several days more, at the same dawdling pace, and then they stopped a week at one place for the hunting. The Forest Runners A Story of the Great War Trail in Early Kentucky While they were dawdling about, gossiping in the verandah, I had a closer look at the babies, which had all been brought to church. A Voyage in the 'Sunbeam' Our Home on the Ocean for Eleven Months When I'm among a blaze of lights, With tawdry music and cigars And women dawdling through delights, And officers at cocktail bars,— Sometimes I think of garden nights And elm trees nodding at the stars. The War Poems of Siegfried Sassoon Instead of the satisfactory scourge and hair shirt of rising betimes next morning, try the more commonplace penance of going to bed in proper time the next night, without any dawdling. Stray Thoughts for Girls I was promising myself a very solitary time, and was dawdling over my dinner to kill some of it. The Honorable Peter Stirling and What People Thought of Him It was cold enough to render no dawdling possible, and one hurried one's toilet in order to get to the already brightly burning fire and steaming hot coffee. South African Memories Social, Warlike & Sporting from Diaries Written at the Time He does very well to go dawdling after women, and playing with their pulses, but I don't want him dawdling after me. The Doctor's Dilemma We wandered along at our sweet will, dawdling as slowly as we pleased. African Camp Fires I have learned to be pretty handy on board the privateer, and I would as lief be working forward as dawdling about aft all the way home. One of the 28th A Tale of Waterloo This is not a task like organizing a prolonged search for one's father, or dawdling with friends, which a million men can do equally well. Queed I have had enough of dawdling and sentimentalizing. The Bell in the Fog and Other Stories I want to see you alone: I can't bear him dawdling about a room, and staring at things, and saying nothing. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 31, October, 1873 When he beholds dawdling inanity and dowdy vanity growing lush as jimson, where yesterday, with strained prophetic vision, he saw budding excellence and worth, his soul is wrung by a worry that knows no peace. Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 03 Little Journeys to the Homes of American Statesmen She was just leaving the premises of the inn strolling, nay dawdling, along. The Indiscretion of the Duchess She admitted, without pressure, that she had been hoping for his return; had in fact been dawdling over the duties of the dining-room on that very expectation. Queed To picture Jeanne stretched dead beneath the sheets was a vision of mortal terror; but now she was eating, and eating so prettily, with all an invalid's characteristic dawdling and hesitancy! A Love Episode I remember to have been dawdling in a book-store in a small town in Oregon when a lady entered to inquire if a monthly magazine, whose name was unknown to me, had yet arrived. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 6 Four o'clock sounded and he was still dawdling. Left Tackle Thayer The dawdling parties who lunch on the Hill derive no particular harm; but then how they waste money and time! The Ethics of Drink and Other Social Questions Joints In Our Social Armour If this were termed 'dawdling,' it would be as true as the other.... The Personal Life of David Livingstone One evening Lord Hawbury had just finished his dinner, and was dawdling about in a listless way, when Dacres entered, quite unceremoniously, and flung himself into a chair by one of the windows. The American Baron He could not have said whether bravado or contempt was moving him to such flamboyant dawdling. Broken to the Plow The old man could stand nothing as little as what he called dawdling. The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 09 Friedrich Hebbel and Otto Ludwig I had the vaguest notion how leeches were gathered, but the pursuit would at the worst give me an excuse for dawdling and spying out the land. The Laird's Luck and Other Fireside Tales He has told us how, as a child, in New York, Paris, London, and Geneva, he enjoyed more than anything else the "far from showy practice of wondering and dawdling and gaping." Old and New Masters But you will find, when you stop to think it over, that many of the wisest things we ever do are done without dawdling,—suddenly, one may say. Starr, of the Desert But I ought not to be dawdling like this, with half my patients to see. Paul Faber, Surgeon If the guests were to find the food palatable, there could not be any dawdling over the skimming and turning. The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 07 Masterpieces of German Literature Translated into English. in Twenty Volumes The two women had scarcely left the roof of the house and got themselves down to the large, breezy, sparsely furnished parlor, ere the lazy, dawdling Indian servant announced Lieutenant Thurstane. Overland And now the boys are within reach; at a wish I could have them all round me; and still, in my thoughts, I hurry the slow days, and blame them for dawdling. Nancy No, I'm not forgetting the workers either: but you need not tell me that they are all sick at heart because they are not dawdling in a country lane. Father Payne There came the smile again, and the dawdling of the brush while she thought of those two. The Gringos "Good for you, Cecil!" called out another young woman from, the broad hammock in which she had been dawdling with half-alert ears through the foregoing conversation. Master Tales of Mystery, Volume 3 So long as the sun shines and the water lies good and flat, dawdling along in such a craft is an ideal way to travel. Virginia: the Old Dominion He stood with his back to the women, staring at the fire, while Stephen Whitelaw lighted a candle in his slow dawdling way. Fenton's Quest On it went, on and on until at last, fairly blocking its path, was the big, muddy, dawdling Missouri. Where the Trail Divides The dilatory train took seventy minutes, dawdling along the banks of the notorious Marne. Over There War Scenes on the Western Front "We are dawdling by this fountain," I said. The Reflections of Ambrosine A Novel While dawdling about this submerged portion of old James Towne, we thought we would make a stop at the spot where those first settlers landed. Virginia: the Old Dominion Alas for sonnetting,'tis as the nerves are; all the summer I was dawdling among green lanes, and verses came as thick as fancies. The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 4 Poems and Plays At a dawdling little prairie stream, superciliously ignored by the map-maker, yet then and now travelling its aimless journey from nowhere to nowhere under the name of Mink Creek, they halted for the night. Where the Trail Divides That reminds me," he said briskly, "we can't waste Allah's time in dawdling here. The Man from Brodney's No wonder that in its lurid light the Government for a moment forgot its dawdling "peace policy," and "let slip the dogs of war." Reminiscences of a Pioneer As he was dawdling home, his eye was struck by the sight of a beautiful because picturesque dark fishing-boat, which he saw very plainly, because the red sun was setting behind it. The Fairy Godmothers and Other Tales "I want to be at work in the world," said Tom, "and not dawdling away three years at Oxford." MacMillan's Reading Books Book V In the midst of the prairie wilderness Providence had placed a tiny dawdling creek. Where the Trail Divides I seemed the ordinary youth of my time, bow in my 'Varsity eight, cramming for exams., dawdling in clubs. The Purple Cloud Here's Helen Heath been dawdling round the table all the morning for the sake of chatting to her while she breakfasts. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 37, November, 1860 Finally January was gone, and February, that sawed-off month, was dawdling along its way toward that great occasion which gives it its chief excuse for being on the calendar—Washington's Birthday. The Dozen from Lakerim Why are you women dawdling so with the samovar?' Master and Man He conducts his dawdling as if upon system; arrives at his appointment after time; gets to the railway station after the train has started; posts his letter when the box has closed. Self help; with illustrations of conduct and perseverance Miss Crawley, be it known, did not leave her room until near noon—taking chocolate in bed in the morning, while Becky Sharp read the Morning Post to her, or otherwise amusing herself or dawdling. Vanity Fair We were on the street and it chanced that a well-fed, silk-hatted dominie, sporting a diamond stud, was dawdling by as the man of Galilee uttered this emphatic protest against gain-grabbing preachers. Brann the Iconoclast — Volume 01 I realized how much I had loathed the lonely days in Germany, and still more the dawdling week in Constantinople. Greenmantle They naturally took comfort in each other's society and were much together, riding, walking, dancing, or dawdling, for at Nice no one can be very industrious during the gay season. Little Women Beware of stumbling over a propensity which easily besets you from not having your time fully employed—I mean what the women call dawdling. Self help; with illustrations of conduct and perseverance Somehow she had managed to spend nearly a half hour sitting just there dawdling, daydreaming. Undo, a Novel By Joe Hutsko Drudging along isn't work any more than dawdling along. The Price She Paid So much to do in the world—so much that is thrillingly interesting and useful—and those intelligent young people dawdling there at nonsense a child would weary of! The Conflict He knew to the full, on what he had just extracted from Miss Gostrey, Chad's marks of alertness; but they were a reason the more for not dawdling. The Ambassadors Couples came, too—dawdling couples, plainly newly married: the men were not two steps ahead, and the women's gloves were buttoned and their furs in place. Miss Billy's Decision Philip saw several fellows with a desultory, timid look dawdling around, and surmised that, like himself, they were there for the first time. Of Human Bondage |
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