英语词汇“slothful”造句子简单的方法、技巧、例句及翻译-英语例句辞典

Shame to the slothful and woe to the weak one. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

And it is clear that white Americans are not simply unwilling to effect these changes; they are, in the main, so slothful have they become, unable even to envision them. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z

For the rest of the week, I was peevish and slothful. Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!: Voices from a Medieval Village 2007-07-24T00:00:00Z

At the same time, others construed even the most slothful forms of idleness as a bold resistance to modernity's greatest ills. "Doing nothing" is all the rage — is it a form of resistance or just an indulgence for the lucky few 2021-03-27T04:00:00Z

Branding the film "slothful" and "indulgent", Empire Magazine's Simon Crook its "lumpen slapstick, casual sexism and a smug tone". Grown Ups 2 tops Razzie nominations 2014-01-15T10:46:57Z

For each letter about slothful guests who lift not a finger, I receive nearly as many complaining about guests who won’t back off. Social Q’s: Social Q’s: Raising the Roof Over a Daughter’s Holiday Guest 2012-11-08T23:06:21Z

Even his good friend, the notoriously slothful Adam Sandler, has stretched his ability on numerous occasions. Kevin Can Wait: is Kevin James an acting genius or a one-trick pony? 2016-09-19T04:00:00Z

We were self-interested and self-absorbed, apathetic, slothful, narcissistic—or so we were frequently told. New York’s Climate Strike and the Things That Make Teen-Agers March 2019-09-20T04:00:00Z

That called for building core strength and then while doing production if I had to go slothful, I would stop training completely. A Minute With: Vin Diesel on going dark, getting ripped and Facebook 2013-09-04T12:48:34Z

I’m talking to people who have the audacity to lean on well-intentioned phrases like “love yourself at any weight” as a way to excuse their slothful lifestyle. Sometimes, you can’t love yourself at any size: How I lost 160 pounds 2015-04-12T04:00:00Z

The only sneaky good moments in the episode have almost nothing to do with the rap dramedy slothfully unfolding at its center. The Simpsons mixes The Great Gatsby with hip-hop in misfiring special 2017-01-16T05:00:00Z

Digital comics are clearly the format of choice for the slothful. ArtsBeat Blog: Rating the No. 1's: 'Justice League' 2011-08-31T20:13:26Z

There, he'll be able to indulge slothful male habits like watching television in bed. Sex and the City 2 Leaves Fans Behind 2010-05-26T23:05:00Z

We’re told to push them out to fend for themselves financially or risk raising irresponsible adults — slothfully living in their childhood bedroom or the basement — incapable of managing their money. Advice | Let adult children fend for themselves? That’s outdated in today’s economy. 2022-09-20T04:00:00Z

Conquest would allow American men to shed the temptations of the “slothful life” and become a “more manful race.” Opinion | Josh Hawley and the Republican Obsession With Manliness 2021-12-04T05:00:00Z

Carnegie stated that "It were better for mankind that the millions of the rich were thrown into the sea than so spent as to encourage the slothful, the drunken, the unworthy." Manchin's means-testing requirement is a recipe for building back worse 2021-10-27T04:00:00Z

The rest of us tended toward a more slothful nakedness; we swam, we sunned, we had picnics of cheese and wine. Letter of Recommendation: Naturism 2019-01-29T05:00:00Z

Politics usually is grounded in grievances, and Hampel nurses AfD’s originating complaint, which was that Germany’s role under the European Union’s common currency has been to bail out slothful, spendthrift Greeks and other Southern Europeans. Opinion | Alternative for Germany is a Rorschach test for anyone watching the country 2019-01-09T05:00:00Z

This will return a slothful, decadent Britain to its essence, reveal the country’s plucky character. Opinion | The lure of chaos is leading Britain straight into the abyss 2018-12-21T05:00:00Z

If there were obvious bargains, a little effort would bring riches at the expense of slothful investors. The growth of index investing has not made markets less efficient 2018-07-05T04:00:00Z

Society has its own sort of perception of people like me - we are disgusting, fat, slothful, lazy, incompetent, stupid. ‘OK, I’m fat - and this is how it feels’ 2018-05-12T04:00:00Z

His teammates remained on the court and played basketball at the same slothful pace. ‘No fun to watch’: Spiraling Wizards fall at home to tanking Hawks 2018-04-06T04:00:00Z

“They fought their way to control by rebate and drawback, bribe and blackmail, espionage and price cutting, and perhaps more important, by ruthless, never slothful efficiency of organization.” The Case Against Google 2018-02-20T05:00:00Z

No, their aim was unmistakable, and - thanks to a slothful prosecutor - they walked away with less than a slap on the wrist. Editorial Roundup: Recent editorials in Arkansas newspapers 2017-11-07T05:00:00Z

Sasse sprinkles the book with occasional disclaimers that however much he may be criticizing, if not lambasting, millennials, his true wrath is reserved for the parents rather than their slothful progeny. Opinion | A U.S. senator’s plea for today’s kids to shake off the coddling and grow up 2017-07-21T04:00:00Z

The slothful, the sickly or the socially inept can now order groceries with their cellphones. Another one bites the dust: the 'five second rule' has been debunked | Dave Schilling 2016-09-19T04:00:00Z

He runs the race as The Blerch, his slothful alter-ego, dressed in an inflatable plastic suit, while runners dressed as fast food jog along a course lined with cake and couches. Hardworking, ticked off, driven by rage and anxiety: The Oatmeal isn’t who you think he is 2016-08-11T04:00:00Z

He says: “Obese people, obese animals are not fat because they are lazy and slothful and bad, but they are fighting their biology.” Labradors may be genetically 'hard-wired' for greed 2016-05-03T04:00:00Z

A friend with equally slothful children commiserated with me. Kids would rather play Xbox than make money shoveling. It’s pitiful. 2016-01-25T05:00:00Z

Bush's slothful insult toward a storied city felled by a hurricane – tipping Air Force One's wings over New Orleans in 2005 – was the tipping point of his presidency. A Pretty Good Year in a Pretty Bad Century 2015-12-29T05:00:00Z

Nick Offerman, the comic he-man of Parks and Recreation, stars as Ignatius J Reilly, a gluttonous and concupiscent layabout, slothfully adrift in New Orleans. Fall theater preview: big names aren't just for Broadway this year 2015-08-27T04:00:00Z

On Labor Day 1971, Nixon contrasted industrious and purposeful men with lazy and slothful protesters demanding government programs. It didn’t start with Limbaugh and Trump: The deep roots of the GOP’s war on women 2015-08-22T04:00:00Z

“We may be slothful,” he said, “but we don’t mess around with our data and facts.” A Deadly Sin at the Aldrich, From the Comfort of an Armchair 2015-08-21T04:00:00Z

It is mindless, shallow, slothful, ersatz, and, ultimately, disrespectful of anyone you are speaking to. Why You Need to Stop Saying 'Awesome' 2015-04-24T04:00:00Z

As you go through the day, the watch prompts you to move around more often if you start to feel slothful. Dear Diary: My Week Wearing an Apple Watch 2015-04-08T04:00:00Z

The company is a slothful behemoth with copious fat reducing its ability to move quickly. Huh? As IBM Readies To Perform The Biggest Corporate Employee Cull In History, It Claims Cloud Leadership 2015-01-26T05:00:00Z

It pushed the Capitals’ lead to 3-0 after they regrouped from a slothful, scoreless first period. Alex Ovechkin’s highlight-reel goal powers Capitals to 4-0 win over New Jersey 2014-12-20T05:00:00Z

For a period of months, he had this book, ‘Confederacy of Dunces,’ and I said, ‘You’re like the hero in the book,’ ” he says, referring to the brilliant, eccentric, philosophical but also slothful main character. A father’s scars: For Va.’s Creigh Deeds, tragedy brings unending questions

We are a slothful lot and the most common reason given for not doing enough exercise is lack of time. Can you cheat your way to fitness? 2014-10-28T04:00:00Z

We were not created to lie around slothfully. HAGELIN: Developing work ethic ensures kids’ future happiness 2014-08-19T04:00:00Z

Their fans argue that these corporate forms are better suited to a world of high tax, red tape and low interest rates than slothful public companies. The reversion of a species 2014-08-14T04:00:00Z

As Jakarta’s governor, he expanded access to health care, launched the construction of a long-overdue urban railway to ease congestion in the traffic-choked city and insisted its often slothful civil servants improve their performance. Indonesia’s Moment 2014-07-31T04:00:00Z

When you start the day by sleeping past the alarm or cutting corners in the morning, you’re more likely to continue that slothful attitude later in the day. Laziness Isn't A Personality Flaw--It's Just A Habit 2014-07-10T04:00:00Z

Fixing it needs many structural reforms, ranging from liberalisation to privatising state-owned enterprises, speeding up slothful courts and fighting endemic corruption. Atwitter about Matteo Renzi 2014-07-10T04:00:00Z

Not only are fat people slothful and gluttonous, but—because obesity is a deadly and costly disease—they risk their own health and the economic health of the nation. Michelle Obama is Supporting Fat Shaming 2013-12-17T17:05:17Z

Jackson, Miss., is the most slothful city in the U.S., according to Men's Health magazine's rankings. Children, don't try this trick shot at home 2013-05-17T00:32:03Z

But if he is keen to engender a sense of crisis, that is understandable – and not only because a slothful regulator wishes to cover its back against the worst case. Energy prices: a political power play 2013-02-19T21:05:37Z

I think the reason I don't work more often - I have a slow rhythm, a slothful rhythm even. Transcript: Daniel Day-Lewis on The Andrew Marr Show 2013-01-27T01:18:05Z

And a captive audience of New York City’s transit leaders, obliged to listen to, or at least pretend to listen to, rider soliloquies involving slothful buses, impolitic railroad ticket agents, subway stations in disrepair. Good News Gets a Hearing, a Transit Agency Rarity 2013-01-24T03:19:58Z

The Lancet also revealed that we in Britain are among the most slothful nations in the developed world, with 63.3% of us failing to meet the recommended physical activity guidelines. Will the Olympics leave a legacy of good health? 2012-08-15T11:24:20Z

In this country it is regarded as a problem, but there’s sometimes a slothful response.” Officials ready Libor probe in Great Britain 2012-07-28T00:47:44Z

German voters are even more skeptical than their leaders about financing their “slothful” and “profligate” neighbors. Economic Scene: Why Germany Will Pay Up to Save the Euro 2012-06-26T19:47:28Z

That the heresy should cross the boundary line was inevitable, and it ran little risk of detection and persecution by a worldly and slothful priesthood, until it gained strength enough to declare itself openly. A History of The Inquisition of The Middle Ages; volume II 2012-04-18T02:00:12.957Z

Your lads are slothful, and are idling in the streets. Jeremiah A Drama in Nine Scenes 2012-04-10T02:00:19.943Z

"Wicked and slothful servant"—wicked, because he had robbed God of His rights; slothful, because he would not raise a finger to serve his Master. Ortus Christi Meditations for Advent 2012-03-23T02:00:31.917Z

The rajah sunk into a state of slothful dissipation, varied by the occasional intemperate exercise of the power left him within the limits of the fortress, his residence. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 1. No 1, June 1850 2012-03-21T02:00:31.390Z

If the class has dropped into slothful and habitual carelessness and inattention, he will have to give them a few severe jolts; he must drop questions where they are least expected. Special Method in the Reading of Complete English Classics In the Grades of the Common School 2012-03-17T02:01:04.053Z

So help us to honor Thee in all the duties of life,—"Not slothful in business,—fervent in spirit,"—pleasing Thee and therefore happy ourselves. The Optimist's Good Morning 2012-03-15T02:00:23.453Z

Where are they who disclose his spirit, who can spur on the slothful and make the deaf hear? Jeremiah A Drama in Nine Scenes 2012-04-10T02:00:19.943Z

Slug′gish, habitually lazy: slothful: having little motion: having little or no power.—adv. Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 4 of 4: S-Z and supplements) 2012-01-30T03:00:19.113Z

Employ thy hours full wisely, and tend thy household well, Be never slothful, woe and death with idleness do dwell. The Thirteenth Greatest of Centuries 2012-01-28T03:00:21.937Z

The only needful pleasure is that which Nature herself bestows on a mind free from care, passion, violent emotion, restless discontent, and slothful apathy. The Roman Poets of the Republic 2012-01-15T03:00:14.187Z

Police are for sentimentalists and cowards and men of slothful ease. The Great Illusion A Study of the Relation of Military Power to National Advantage 2012-01-11T03:00:19.077Z

See slothful Spaniards golden empires keep, And rule vast realms beyond the Atlantic deep; Must we alone surrender half our reign, And they their empires and their worlds retain? The Poems of Philip Freneau, Volume II (of III) 2012-01-10T03:00:15.980Z

I do therefore believe, that I ought not to be idle nor slothful, and that, on the contrary, I should strive without ceasing to acquire the Kingdom of Heaven by my good Works. The Memoirs of Charles-Lewis, Baron de Pollnitz, Volume IV Being the Observations He Made in His Late Travels from Prussia thro' Germany, Italy, France, Flanders, Holland, England, &C. in Letters to His Friend. Discovering Not Only the Present State of the Chief Cities and Towns; but the Characters of the Principal Persons at the Several Courts. 2012-01-09T03:00:26.543Z

In slothful ease, a while I took delight, And thought all Poets mad that us'd to write. Selected Poems (1685-1700) 2011-12-27T03:00:09.253Z

The last was the "wicked and slothful," because unprofitable, servant. Knowledge is Power: A View of the Productive Forces of Modern Society and the Results of Labor, Capital and Skill. 2011-12-24T03:08:00.833Z

He was right; men are more slothful than timid, and their greatest fear is of the burdens that an uncompromising honesty and nakedness of speech and action would lay on them. Thoughts Out of Season (Part II) 2011-12-07T03:00:18.847Z

The people of the farm-houses respected Don Joaqu�n, though as regards the assistance of his poverty they were remiss and slothful. The Cabin [La barraca] 2011-12-01T03:00:23.247Z

Then, laying myself within Ariseep’s kraal, I waited for the slothful dawn. From Veldt Camp Fires 2011-12-01T03:00:21.397Z

The strong and the willing saw that they were yoked to those who were weak and slothful; there was no chance for natural abilities to assert themselves, no reward for individual excellence. Stories of the Badger State 2011-11-27T03:00:12.687Z

He has not been "the wicked and slothful servant." Knowledge is Power: A View of the Productive Forces of Modern Society and the Results of Labor, Capital and Skill. 2011-12-24T03:08:00.833Z

But the world dims our fine gold: the minstrel is slothful, and singers forget to sing, because of the pain and travail which go to the finding of their songs. Aucassin & Nicolette And Other Mediaeval Romances and Legends 2011-11-24T03:00:40.487Z

"If a man would hasten towards the good, he should keep his thought away from evil; if a man does what is good slothfully, his mind delights in evil." Ancient Faiths And Modern A Dissertation upon Worships, Legends and Divinities 2011-11-24T03:00:37.917Z

Gilla Dacker means "a slothful fellow"—a fellow hard to move, hard to manage, hard to have anything to do with. Old Celtic Romances 2011-11-19T03:00:26.863Z

The dull world Hath need of you—the purblind, slothful world! The Epic of Hades In Three Books 2011-11-16T03:00:28.060Z

Duke pulled steadily, keeping the chains fairly tight; Jenny, her ears wobbling, but now and then laid back in protest at one thing or another, slothfully dragged her long legs. The Pike's Peak Rush Terry in the New Gold Fields 2011-11-11T03:00:26.697Z

Genius and Heroism—the most strenuous of human things—were never dull, slothful, idle; never slighted opportunity, but always make, if they do not find it. Homes of American Statesmen With Anecdotical, Personal, and Descriptive Sketches 2011-11-04T02:00:19.293Z

U Thlen is described as being slothful and sleepy, never rousing himself except to seek food. Folk-Tales of the Khasis 2011-11-01T02:00:19.730Z

Now with resplendent flood Gladden my waking eyes, And stir my slothful blood To joyous enterprise. The Poetical Works of Robert Bridges 2011-10-22T02:00:26.887Z

He was a man remarkably temperate, never slothful, of strong constitution, and willing to ride or walk till old age gained upon him and moderated such inclination. The Chronicle of Jocelin of Brakelond: A Picture of Monastic Life in the Days of Abbot Samson 2011-10-18T02:00:19.523Z

The slothful and luxurious emperor let things slide, and had not even a fleet ready to send against them in the Aegean. The Byzantine Empire 2011-10-16T02:00:16.630Z

The war had dragged him from a life of slothful ease to one of bustle and discomfort. Servants of the Guns 2011-10-06T02:00:39.987Z

"The slothful man saith, There is a lion without, I shall be slain in the streets." The Baptist Magazine, Vol. 27, 1835 2011-10-03T02:00:25.363Z

In no age more than ours has the deep need and earnest hope of society better interpreted the apostle’s definition of a truly practical man, “Not slothful in business, fervent in spirit, serving the Lord.” The Hearth-Stone Thoughts upon Home-Life in Our Cities 2011-09-28T02:00:22.560Z

At each subway entrance and elevated stairway loitered a seemingly slothful and impassive character whom his trained eye easily identified as a detective. The Gray Phantom's Return 2011-09-22T02:00:27.150Z

Inclined now to believe Joan inspired, the slothful King fretted at the thought of the trials and cares that the threatened vigorous renewal of hostilities against the English was to inflict upon him. The Executioner's Knife Or Joan of Arc 2011-09-13T02:00:34.817Z

But passing by that, we come to the last part of this threefold message, the solemn warning to a slothful servant. The Expositor's Bible: Colossians and Philemon 2011-09-09T02:01:07.157Z

The slothful years had vanished in the twinkling of an eye. Caught by the Turks 2011-09-09T02:01:01.073Z

He is willing very honestly to accept the motto, “not slothful in business” for himself and all in his employment. The Hearth-Stone Thoughts upon Home-Life in Our Cities 2011-09-28T02:00:22.560Z

Where it was needful money was sent; the slothful were roused with manifestoes. The Deluge, Vol. II. (of 2) An Historical Novel of Poland, Sweden, and Russia. 2011-09-05T02:00:23.933Z

His Lord answered and said unto him, Thou wicked and slothful servant. Thoughts for the Quiet Hour 2011-09-03T02:00:17.117Z

The servant who thinks of God as a harsh exactor is slothful; the servant who thinks of Him as the “giving God” rejoices in toil. The Expositor's Bible: Colossians and Philemon 2011-09-09T02:01:07.157Z

Reconciliation is the parent of slothful thinking and of glosses; it is by sharp contrasting of the opposing views that we are like to have new facts elicited, and new lines of inquiry suggested. The Biological Problem of To-day Preformation Or Epigenesis? The Basis of a Theory of Organic Development 2011-08-29T02:01:04.170Z

In its own way it will repeat the second clause of the apostle, and add “fervent in spirit” to “not slothful in business.” The Hearth-Stone Thoughts upon Home-Life in Our Cities 2011-09-28T02:00:22.560Z

The manifesto of the king completed these, and brought the most slothful to their feet. The Deluge, Vol. II. (of 2) An Historical Novel of Poland, Sweden, and Russia. 2011-09-05T02:00:23.933Z

After two months of slothful ease, something more exciting became imperative, and just then the racing season began and supplied that need. Get-Rich-Quick Wallingford 2011-08-11T02:00:13.017Z

And why did a man whom friends and co-workers described in typical terms — quiet, gracious, respectful — serve a suspension last year after appearing surly and slothful in a rider’s video aboard a bus? In a Death, as in a Life, a Cloak of Mystery 2011-08-03T04:20:19Z

For the bishops of our time are not like what bishops used to be; they are careless and slothful about their office, and embrace the world with all their arms.” The English Church in the Middle Ages 2011-08-01T02:00:14.773Z

Saw, too, how his whole body became overcast with a thickening, flabby garment of fat, like a net that bound his slothful limbs.... The Sea Bride 2011-07-30T02:00:14.537Z

It’s the British summer—and Parliament has just closed for its slothful three-month recess. Rupe?s Hacks Dodge Flak 2011-07-25T05:00:00Z

But in these present days, which are evil, men grow slothful, wherefore now the gentle minstrels will venture little; for know ye of a sooth it is no light thing to tell a goodly tale. Tales from the Old French 2011-07-09T02:00:12.200Z

Agricultural development.—The original instructions had provided that the products of labor should belong to the community instead of to the individual, an arrangement by which the slothful profited at the expense of the industrious. The Colonization of North America 1492-1783 2011-07-06T02:00:47.077Z

Not slothful in business, fervent in spirit, serving the Lord, is piety in America—something contrasting remarkably with the mystical and world-renouncing pietismus of modern Germany. The International Monthly, Volume 4, No. 3, October, 1851 2011-07-02T02:00:11.323Z

He was in one of his slothful moods, half asleep in the after cabin; and he shook his great head. The Sea Bride 2011-07-30T02:00:14.537Z

Sharapova sounded relieved she had found a partner who did not view her sleeping habits as slothful. Up in the Players? Box, a Fianc?, Fan and Fellow Athlete 2011-06-28T20:14:49Z

He never harmed the poor, for he pitied their fate, and only spoiled the wealthy and proud, or nobles and slothful bishops, who lived in state on the fruit of the husbandman's toil. Amusing Prose Chap Books 2011-06-27T02:01:05.043Z

Come on! let’s leave her to slothful dreams.” Ruth Fielding at Silver Ranch Schoolgirls Among Cowboys 2011-06-14T02:00:23.130Z

Demetrius was a handsome, amiable fellow, of mediocre talent, slothful by nature and indulgence, and more ambitious of social success than of a front place in the class of philosophy. In Both Worlds 2011-06-08T02:00:17.360Z

Furthermore, the English infantry first garrisoned there soon proved themselves base, slothful Rogues, who would neither dig nor plant, and in short time many sought to defect to the Spaniards for want of rations. Caribbee 2011-06-05T02:00:16.273Z

“All the day before the sunny rays, He used to slug or sleep, in slothful shade.” Amenities of Literature Consisting of Sketches and Characters of English Literature 2011-06-03T02:00:19.227Z

It was she who made the convent rules herself, she who gave advice to those who needed it, encouraged the timid, urged on the slothful, and spoke tenderly to those in trouble. Great Englishwomen An Historical Reading Book for Schools 2011-05-23T02:00:09.167Z

I will put my talent to usury, and be no slothful steward of what has been entrusted to me. The Life, Letters and Work of Frederic Leighton Volume I 2011-05-22T02:00:16.657Z

I am loath to linger here, but I descend into the valley of shadows to show that, even on your own ground, you are a wicked and slothful servant. A New Atmosphere 2011-05-20T02:00:35.903Z

Now Louis Philippe, though as active as his predecessors had been slothful, was the least warlike of men. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 7 "Fox, George" to "France" 2011-05-15T02:00:07.897Z

Raging at the slothful way these Lakers proceeded through the season is wasted breath. Ventre: Lakers need significant changes 2011-05-09T04:18:04Z

As a boy he was slothful and indolent, and when he grew up he had not learned a craft to earn a living. The Gospel of Buddha Compiled from Ancient Records by Paul Carus 2011-04-19T02:00:18.493Z

I, slothful sinner that I am, knelt down at my hour of prayer, and it seemed to me as if God were unwilling to give me the least measure of His grace. Matelda and the Cloister of Hellfde Extracts from the Book of Matilda of Magdeburg 2011-04-11T02:00:10.567Z

Woe to thee, slothful servant and remiss, That hast thy talent buried in the ground! Renaissance in Italy: Italian Literature Part 1 (of 2) 2011-04-09T02:00:14.990Z

They grew slothful in good fortune and forgot their own art, they forgot how to navigate. Life and Death And Other Legends and Stories 2011-04-02T02:00:10.393Z

Many there were who were slothful and many were afraid, but the most disbelieved it wholly, for, they said, "How should this boy tell us of a thing of which we have never heard!" The Basket Woman A Book of Indian Tales for Children 2011-03-09T03:00:44.330Z

It was the perfect expression of a carefully devised luxury, a luxury which for the last eight years had lapped him in slothful ease. Miss Maitland Private Secretary 2011-03-08T03:00:39.100Z

Only to the slothful, and such as loved their ease above all things, early Methodism had no seductions to offer. A Charming Fellow, Volume I (of 3) 2011-03-02T03:00:28.240Z

So, being naturally of a slothful disposition, and being quite sure that no young girl would care for architecture, which is my hobby, I suggested my elective study. Nan Sherwood at Lakeview Hall Or the Mystery of the Haunted Boathouse 2011-02-14T03:00:33.337Z

For no Brahmin was ever more deeply imbued with the prejudice of caste than this slothful old lady Gordon; and no consideration other than a serious one could disturb her in the least. Oldfield A Kentucky Tale of the Last Century 2011-02-13T03:00:19.953Z

He who formerly was slothful, But is slothful now no more, Lighteth up the world with splendour, As the moon from clouds released. The Buddha's Path of Virtue A Translation of the Dhammapada 2011-02-07T03:00:21.273Z

Help us to resist its desire to eat, to drink, to sleep overmuch, to be idle, to be slothful. Works of Martin Luther With Introductions and Notes (Volume II) 2011-01-11T03:00:31.950Z

The slothful conduct of his friend and his eternal jeremiads appeared to him simply stupid. Sentimental Education Vol 1 2011-01-04T03:01:07.467Z

The sailor no longer mounts the ratlines, as if he had cork in his heels, but climbs up sluggishly and slothfully, devoid of his usual pride to be foremost. Memoirs of Service Afloat, During the War Between the States 2011-01-04T03:01:01.887Z

The Spaniards have, even in their slothful, unskilled and clumsy fashion, taken out untold wealth; but they only scratched the field; most of what remains is practically virgin soil. The Outlook: Uncle Sam's Place and Prospects in International Politics 2010-12-30T03:00:21Z

If this be slothfully neglected, other days and times may possibly succeed, in which we cannot think, hear, speak, or do any good. True Christianity 2010-12-25T03:00:12.817Z

The coastmen were expert smugglers and wreckers, the agriculturists were ignorant and drunken, the parish clergy were slothful, in many cases intemperate, and largely given to fox-hunting. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Slice 7 "Bible" to "Bisectrix" 2010-12-20T17:12:05.780Z

And the existence of even a slightly strengthened FDA is enough to send them a signal, just as even a slothful, doughnut-munching Chief Wiggum is a better deterrent to criminals than no policeman at all. Why the Food Safety Modernization Act Is Flawed but Needed 2010-12-08T08:25:00Z

Here are five quick ideas for a range of do-gooders, from the slothful to the zealous. Help the Gulf Coast: Five ways to volunteer 2010-06-29T15:01:00Z

Others were too slothful to man their checkpoints. 'Still a long way to go' for U.S. operation in Marja, Afghanistan 2010-06-10T04:00:00Z

He had halted there once, long enough to observe its somewhat slothful condition, and to buy pork and potatoes; but this 26 tale was a revelation, and the girl herself a greater one. The Girl From Tim's Place

This latter part refers to the alphabetical arrangement under such headings as honour, diligent, slothful. Proverb Lore Many sayings, wise or otherwise, on many subjects, gleaned from many sources

Some Nations, fond of slothful Ease, Trust to deluding Enemies; And striving to avoid Expence, Will leave themselves without defence; But cunning Tyrants call 'em Friends, No longer than it serves their Ends. Aesop Dress'd Or a collection of Fables

So, on this morning he went to his work as usual, despite the heat, not slothful enough to delve in a well-filled drawer and read over some "cold meat" for his parishioners. The Gay Adventure A Romance

This is a declaration of war on the old, slothfully accepted dogma that to the victor belongs the spoils. The Tempering

And great age is apt to be peevish and slothful and childish and fretful and must be ruled. Our Admirable Betty A Romance

But he was too slothful to have more than a passive part in the direction of his own government. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 8 "Chariot" to "Chatelaine"

He's less fractious and slothful since he was up-ended and spanked in presence of a lady, but on the other hand, there's a lack of joy, cheerfulness, and application. A Man in the Open

In truth, religion means freshness, elasticity and hope: a man will be not slothful in business, but fervent in spirit, if he serves the Lord. The Expositor's Bible: The Book of Exodus

She wished to be an object lesson of industry to slothful Jean. The Ranch Girls at Rainbow Lodge The Ranch Girls Series

But its long years of prosperity proved its undoing, for slothful ease gave way to greater evils. Hastings and Neighbourhood

And this was not lacking, though it was discreet applause, promoting no slothful content. Ewing\\'s Lady

Keep your mind a total stranger to the ennui of the slothful. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, February, 1852

Sometimes, when the men were in pursuit of elephants, and slept out on the spoor, it seemed as if the slothful hours would never pass. Tales of South Africa

Be kindly affectioned one to another with brotherly love; in honor preferring one another; not slothful in business; fervent in spirit; serving the Lord; rejoicing in hope; patient in tribulation; continuing instant in prayer. The Bible Story

I have been a slothful father, Anne, and feel myself cowardly also in thus shifting upon your shoulders my own responsibilities. Anne

Isabeau de Bavi�re was already of a slothful habit, to be roused only by her love of amusement, to purchase which neither she nor her young husband would spare anything. Women of Mediæval France Woman: in all ages and in all countries Vol. 5 (of 10)

The slothful, whose number is great even among the intellectuals, willingly fit themselves to this clumsy acceptance of such declarations. Essays on the Materialistic Conception of History

To the indolent, heedless and slothful, we would say, tarry among the flesh pots of Egypt; here we get our bread by the sweat of the brow. Discussion on American Slavery

But everything conduces to the dreaminess of her nature, to slothful habits; her activities are fettered by the law of Mohammed. Oriental Women

We met a breeze, surprisingly strong, which made even these slothful waters choppy. The Bonadventure A Random Journal of an Atlantic Holiday

The dog is slothful, and exertion is followed by distress. The Dog

But he could not let himself sink back into a slothful obscurity. Command

He declined Gwynne's invitation to dinner, and drove off, looking slothful and amiable once more. Ancestors A Novel

But everything conduces to the dreaminess of her nature, to slothful habits; her activities are fettered by the law of Mohammed. Oriental Women

It is well worth a trip to California for the slothful, ease-loving denizen of lower countries, to see the country, and recover their manhood. Journal of a Trip to California by the Overland Route Across the Plains in 1850-51

Those who love books seldom hurt them, while the slothful who hate learning, will wear out a book more in a week, than the diligent will do in a year. The Shepherd of Salisbury Plain and Other Tales

The three parables of the prudent and evil servant, the wise and the foolish virgins and the faithful and the slothful servants, give us a picture of the state of the entire Christian profession. Studies in Prophecy

Who would sleep when beauty such as this is flung broadcast upon the earth, waiting for man to feast his slothful eyes upon it? Rossmoyne

It is because we are at once actor and spectator that we find no fault with blinking sight and slothful thought. The Kempton-Wace Letters

Nor is she like the fat townswife, heavy and slothful, about whom our fathers made such a number of fat stories. La Sorcière: The Witch of the Middle Ages

While I approve these men for not being slothful in business, let me improve the hint, by being also fervent in spirit. The Shepherd of Salisbury Plain and Other Tales

Without transition, such persons have passed from the absurd excesses of slothful optimism to the vertigo of unplumbed pessimism. The Forerunners

Looking backward from these days of slothful ease in getting about it seems as if the golden days of Ponkapoag were those of a generation and more ago. Old Plymouth Trails

The bourgeoisie has disclosed how it came to pass that the brutal display of vigor in the middle ages, which Reactionists so much admire, found its fitting complement in the most slothful indolence. Manifesto of the Communist Party

But the book does not end with its hero and heroine lapped in slothful content. Brooke's Daughter A Novel

He directed the willing, and gave an example to the slothful. The Shepherd of Salisbury Plain and Other Tales

Its greatest fault is its slothful unwillingness to seek renewal. The Forerunners

You are slothful, and you help me nothing, so that I am half in conceit you affect not the argument; for myself I know well you love and affect. Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 3

"Nevertheless," replied Elspa Ruet, "I will try; it's my duty, and my sisterly love bids me no to be slothful in the task." Ringan Gilhaize or The Covenanters

Tarpons and sharks and sword-fish, monstrous, sinister, moved slothfully in the viscid waters. The Missourian

The Christian dare never become slothful or negligent in this matter. Epistle Sermons, Vol. III Trinity Sunday to Advent

In the former, which is of little importance, a "slothful cordiality" prevails. The Forerunners

If he bestir him and collect them himself, the God shall make him prosperous; but He shall punish him, if he be slothful. The Instruction of Ptah-Hotep and the Instruction of Ke'Gemni The Oldest Books in the World

It seems always a mystery, why such earnest, useful souls, doing that highest of all work,—a pure, unselfish charity,—should be taken away, and the slothful, dependent, ease-loving, selfish ones left. Hope Mills or, Between Friend and Sweetheart

They are exceedingly clever and imitative, and even show much ability in many occupations and mental exercises; but they are apt to be superficial, incorrect, indifferent to results, slothful and lacking in concentration of mind. The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 - Volume 40 of 55 1690-1691 Explorations by Early Navigators, Descriptions of the Islands and Their Peoples, Their History and Records of the Catholic Missions, as Related in Contemporaneous Books and Manuscripts, Showing the Political, Economic, Commercial and Religious Conditions of Those Islands from Their Earliest Relations with European Nations to the Close of the Nineteenth Century

They found that African kings knew the art of being slothful in business. A Story of One Short Life, 1783 to 1818

For the sake of these very multitudes who surrender to the slothful intoxication of collective passion, we must cherish the flame of liberty. The Forerunners

We need not undergo the weary ordeal of waiting with him while the clock’s slothful hands creep around the dial. When the West Was Young

May I, however, henceforth make the most of my talent, that I be not numbered among the slothful servants at my dear Lord’s most glorious and blessed appearing. Journal of a Residence at Bagdad During the Years 1830 and 1831

Many there were who were slothful, and many were afraid; but the most disbelieved it wholly. Boys and Girls Bookshelf (Vol 2 of 17) Folk-Lore, Fables, And Fairy Tales

Then think not I am slothful in the race, Or, that my Brother springs before my Love. The Prince of Parthia A Tragedy

Without being slothful, he had been foolishly unaspiring, and he saw that now. They of the High Trails

They inherit the kingdom, from which the original heirs who have been wicked and slothful servants, and who have buried their talent in the napkin, are excluded. Orthodoxy: Its Truths And Errors

Indolent is a milder term for the same quality; the slothful man hates action; the indolent man loves inaction. English Synonyms and Antonyms With Notes on the Correct Use of Prepositions

They have nothing in common with the slothful races of Lower India; they are alert and vigorous and active as cats. Round the Wonderful World

With pain the god, His eyelids weigh'd with slothful torpor, rais'd; But at each effort down they sunk again: And on his breast his nodding chin still smote. The Metamorphoses of Publius Ovidus Naso in English blank verse Vols. I & II

But count the reach of my desire— Let this be something in thy sight; I have not, in the slothful dark, Forgot the vision and the height. Poems with Power to Strengthen the Soul

Neither can he devote himself to a life of comfortable, slothful ease; the new lands have little comfort. Introduction to the Science of Sociology

He must be attentive and diligent, even though all others be slothful and careless. Epistle Sermons, Vol. II Epiphany, Easter and Pentecost

We read: “Be kindly affectioned one to another with brotherly love; in honor preferring one another; not slothful in business; fervent in spirit; serving the Lord.” Days of Heaven Upon Earth

Such are the words of Rabbi Tarphon, “The day is short—the labor vast;—but the laborers are slothful, though the reward is great, and the Master of the house presseth for despatch.” Hebrew Literature

Through too much liberty they grew negligent and slothful, envying and reproaching one another, waging, as it were, civil wars among themselves, bishops quarreling with bishops, and the people divided into parties. The Gospel Day Or, the Light of Christianity

The bishops and prelates, the slothful and careless curates and ministers; they with their negligence give the devil leave to sow his seed, for they sow not their seed. The Pulpit Of The Reformation, Nos. 1, 2, 3 and 4.

If the slothful timid soldier should now possess thee, or the base Saracen, my grief would be unspeakable! Mediaeval Tales

The fish did not, verily, alter the motion of its fins, either more slothfully or quicker; but with perfect indifference permitted me to keep the fly dangling before its eyes as long as I pleased. A Yacht Voyage to Norway, Denmark, and Sweden 2nd edition

R. Tarphon said, “the day is short, the labor vast, but the laborers are slothful, though the reward is great, and the Master of the house presseth for despatch.” Hebrew Literature

If the soul through prosperity or otherwise becomes slothful, disease may be permitted to attack the body, or other afflictions may come to awaken to greater watchfulness. The Gospel Day Or, the Light of Christianity

They work the mines, plant cotton, make indigo and sugar, and acquire large fortunes among the slothful and careless Malays. The American Quarterly Review, No. 17, March 1831

"Then," answered the elder, "the kingdom must be mine; for I am so lazy, that sitting once by the fire, I burnt my legs, because I was too slothful to withdraw them." Mediaeval Tales

It needed no persuasion to put the most slothful of the crew upon their mettle. The Ocean Waifs A Story of Adventure on Land and Sea

They are very likely not base, but only apathetic, slothful, or very tired. Laurus Nobilis Chapters on Art and Life

The stupid and the slothful cannot exist in this moving world of busy life and enjoyment. The Quadroon Adventures in the Far West

In the midst of a slothful, debauched people, they are distinguished for simplicity, diligence, and ambition. Jewish Literature and Other Essays

This is what Adèle used to do, but I nipped this slothful tendency in the bud. The Silver Lining A Guernsey Story

"This spirit doth also wonderfully irritate them that are slothful to venery." Aphrodisiacs and Anti-aphrodisiacs: Three Essays on the Powers of Reproduction

Another resident of the city then mounted a barrel and made a ringing speech condemning the slothful foreigners, who have proven themselves a menace to the valley and its inhabitants. The Johnstown Horror!!! or, Valley of Death, being A Complete and Thrilling Account of the Awful Floods and Their Appalling Ruin

Again the meanness of my estate doth somewhat move me; for though I cannot accuse myself that I am either prodigal or slothful, yet my health is not to spend, nor my course to get. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 1 "Austria, Lower" to "Bacon"

I was greatly depressed by my idleness and the uncertainty of my position, and, slothful, hungry, dissatisfied with myself, I wandered over the estate and only waited for an energetic mood to leave the place. The House with the Mezzanine and Other Stories

This work is a sermon to the despondent, complaining spirit, and a word of vigorous exhortation to the slothful man. Burl

But if the reader, because the Andalusians are slothful, truthless, but moderately honest, vain, concludes that they are an unattractive people he will grossly err. The Land of The Blessed Virgin; Sketches and Impressions in Andalusia

But they now speak of serenity and calm�not, indeed, of the unsatisfying ease of the slothful, but of the earned repose of high attainment. The Heart of Nature or, The Quest for Natural Beauty

The nine successive years were spent by Licinius in slothful and vicious pleasures, while Constantine devoted his energies to the suppression of barbarians, and the enactment of important laws. Ancient States and Empires

People seem to be losing their nerve; reality shocks them, and they live slothfully in the shoddy palaces of Sham Ideals. The Hero

He marked how they were falling away from the sober lives and pure faith of their fathers, and losing their wild independence in the slothful and corrupting habits of vagabond existence. Burl

He declared that he, when he grew up, would be a Charlemagne, a St. Louis, a Francis First, and expressed great abhorrence of the tyrannical and slothful kings. Louis XIV. Makers of History Series

She is pretty in an outward way, but her features are unlit by any glimmer of feeling or thought, or even good nature—a slothful, empty sort of prettiness. An Anarchist Woman

And for this blessed work, how slothful and unfit we are. Lord, Teach Us To Pray

That ye be not slothful, but followers of them who through faith and patience inherit the promises. Sanctification

The presence and comfort of her Bridegroom are again lost to her; not this time by relapse into worldliness, but by slothful self-indulgence. Union And Communion or Thoughts on the Song of Solomon

"I mourn the dead, I break the lightning, I announce the Sabbath, I excite the slothful, I disperse the winds, I appease the cruel." The Worship of the Church and The Beauty of Holiness

If any one has mistaken their import, is it not on account of a self-seeking, money-getting, or slothful disposition? Thoughts on Missions

This game, never one for the slothful and unthinking, he made even more exacting than usual. James B. Eads

"As a bride, unwisely wedded, shuns the cold caress of eld, So, from coward souls and slothful, Lakshmi's favours turn repelled." Indian Poetry Containing "The Indian Song of Songs," from the Sanskrit of the Gîta Govinda of Jayadeva, Two books from "The Iliad Of India" (Mahábhárata), "Proverbial Wisdom" from the Shlokas of the Hitopadesa, and other Oriental Poems.

Both in Africa and America, accordingly, he tells us, "the savages suppose monkeys to be men; idle, slothful, rational beings, capable of speech and conversation, but obstinately dumb, for fear of being compelled to labour." Heads and Tales : or, Anecdotes and Stories of Quadrupeds and Other Beasts, Chiefly Connected with Incidents in the Histories of More or Less Distinguished Men.

And Isidore:—"He cannot have assured confidence in his prayers who even thus far in the commands of God is slothful, and whom the remembrance of sinful doing delights." The Form of Perfect Living and Other Prose Treatises

Richard sailed to Acre, where he stirred up slothful pilgrims and entreated them to join his army at Jaffa for the march to Jerusalem. With Spurs of Gold Heroes of Chivalry and their Deeds

Perhaps the candidates for it were few; certainly the emoluments were small; perhaps the patron was slothful—certainly he gave little attention to the Church. The Little Manx Nation - 1891

Have none of my readers done the same, been content to get up a task in any way, however slothful and careless? The Crown of Success

The ancients devised such a portraiture of Time, to signify that slothful delay should not hinder the execution of our purposes. The Fables of Phædrus Literally translated into English prose with notes

God does not honor the slothful, but the man who seeks to make full proof of his ministry. Colleges in America

"We desire ... that ye be not slothful, but followers of them who through faith and patience inherit the promises." The Ordinance of Covenanting

It was in no way cheap; it did not flatter slothful ears. The Goose Man

We are not only the slowest Thinkers of what will do us Good, but we are the most slothful also, in bringing such Thoughts into Execution. A Dialogue Between Dean Swift and Tho. Prior, Esq. In the Isles of St. Patrick's Church, Dublin, On that Memorable Day, October 9th, 1753

But we are not told the cause; on the contrary, subsequent commentary ascribes the fact, in no gentle terms, to the "slothful, filthy habits of the people." Facts for the Kind-Hearted of England! As to the Wretchedness of the Irish Peasantry, and the Means for their Regeneration

It was like a vast, drowsy, slothful thing, ignorant, dull, hateful. Stubble

Among them Spain was not the least slothful and exacting. William Pitt and the Great War

Hence Lakshmaṇ hither comes to break Thy slothful trance and bid thee wake. The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse

Naturally indolent and slothful, he detests labour, and looks upon it as a disgrace, though he will go through great fatigue when hunting or engaged in warfare. The Western World Picturesque Sketches of Nature and Natural History in North and South America

The slothful servant wraps his talent in a napkin, and buries it in the ground. Expositions of Holy Scripture Ephesians; Epistles of St. Peter and St. John

Until then let us not be slothful, but followers of them who through faith and patience inherit the promises. The Story of My Life Being Reminiscences of Sixty Years' Public Service in Canada

He had come out again on the morning when, after Daubeny’s failure, Mr Robertson had called him incorrigibly slothful and incapable, and after muttering some more invectives had said something about his being hopeless. St. Winifred's, or The World of School

But surely it is possible to "serve the Lord," yet not to be "slothful in business;" not over devoted to it, but not to retire from it. Parochial and Plain Sermons, Vol. VIII (of 8)

It lives in solitude; its habits are slothful; it sleeps during the greater part of the day. The Western World Picturesque Sketches of Nature and Natural History in North and South America

It is only the slothful and vacillating who either neglect or regret them.’ The Desert Home The Adventures of a Lost Family in the Wilderness

The slothful and sluggard's desire slays him, because his hands refuse to labour, Prov. xxi. The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning

I’m a ‘bad, idle boy,’ it seems, and ‘incorrigibly slothful,’ and ‘hardly fit for the school,’ and ‘I must be put down to a lower form if I don’t make more effort’—oh! St. Winifred's, or The World of School

It makes me seem as slothful as if I omitted a daily passage from "The Following of Christ" or, at least, a weekly chapter from the Epistles of St. Paul! Confessions of a Book-Lover

This is indeed a pleasure unknown to those indolent beings who let the sun gain his meridian splendour before they reluctantly leave their slothful beds. The Little Quaker or, the Triumph of Virtue. A Tale for the Instruction of Youth

Offered, in the Eternal Mercy, endless precious opportunities of service, he had been too weak, too timorous, too slothful, to lay hold on them. The History of Sir Richard Calmady A Romance

“The hand of the diligent shall bear rule but the slothful shall be under tribute,” Prov. xii. The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning

He wanted Daubeny to tell Mr Robertson how many hours he had spent in being “incorrigibly slothful” over that particular lesson, but this at the time he could not get him to do. St. Winifred's, or The World of School

It’d be no use trying to do anything, even if you weren’t so slothful and sedentary as you are! The Squirrel-Cage

This man's crime was simply neglect—"thou wicked and slothful servant." Natural Law in the Spiritual World

He said Solomon’s description of the slothful should be written in letters of gold on the walls of the understanding. Helen and Arthur or, Miss Thusa's Spinning Wheel

The pleasure and sweetness of God tasted and found, will make diligence and pains more easy than slothfulness can be to the slothful. The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning

It required a knowledge of their inert and slothful character to give us courage to attack them with the weapons which we possessed, for in size and appearance they were most formidable-looking monsters. Old Jack

Five years after the foundation of Manila, the city and environs were infested with niggardly mendicant friars, whose slothful habits placed their supercilious countrymen in ridicule before the natives. The Philippine Islands

It is not only the body that, unchecked, is inclined to be slothful. The Book-Hunter at Home

The man who is really, thoroughly, and philosophically slothful is the only thoroughly happy man. Pipefuls

In slothful ease Britannia shirks; But haply, near these sundering ditches, Some mute inglorious miler lurks Under a morning coat and breeches. Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 146, January 28, 1914

It is not surprising that the Macedonian Slavs, whose labour brought them such inadequate reward, sank into very slothful habits. The Birth of Yugoslavia, Volume 1

They were pulling the slothful creatures off each other, but as soon as they freed themselves from the pests, more fell from above or crept up from the mud. The Adventures of Piang the Moro Jungle Boy A Book for Young and Old

Drawing his long sword from his robust thigh, rising, he cut away the farther horse, nor did he act slothfully. The Iliad of Homer (1873)

In a certain village there was a girl who was lazy and slothful, hated working but would gossip and chatter away like anything. Russian Fairy Tales A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore

But he adds: "Yet often love stirs up even slothful souls to work, and fear exercises a restraining influence on souls which suffer a disturbing influence in their contemplation." On Prayer and The Contemplative Life

He was a cold, indifferent, slothful prince, and constantly the banished house of Obrenović was plotting to turn out this scion of the house of Kara George. The Birth of Yugoslavia, Volume 1

This neighbour-country was rich, great, powerful; but her people were greedy, slothful, asleep. Three Margarets

Haste for me, O slothful children, disgraceful; would that you had all been slain at the swift ships, instead of Hector. The Iliad of Homer (1873)

I repel the imputation that our race, as a class, is lazy and slothful. Sparkling Gems of Race Knowledge Worth Reading A compendium of valuable information and wise suggestions that will inspire noble effort at the hands of every race-loving man, woman, and child.

This is the sentimentalism of those "Who sigh for wretchedness, yet shun the wretched, Nursing in some delicious solitude Their slothful loves and dainty sympathies." The Moral Economy

Knights are too fond of women "with golden locks"; peasants are slothful; merchants rapacious and dishonest; they make "false gems out of glass." A Literary History of the English People From the Origins to the Renaissance

To this rich, slothful country," Rita went on, dwelling on every adjective with infinite relish, "came a girl, a daughter of the country that was bleeding, dying. Three Margarets

They are by nature slothful and heavy, but are easily tamed, and when roused are fierce. Anecdotes of the Habits and Instinct of Animals

The actual fall into sin seems to have been begun by slothful abdication of his functions as captain of Israel. The Life of David As Reflected in His Psalms

So slothful, however, is man in all that concerns his higher faculties, that few deliberately undertake this education at all. Practical Mysticism A Little Book for Normal People

Also, that many insects and even the slothful snail are not so busily engaged in the struggle for existence that they cannot spare a few moments for play. The Dawn of Reason or, Mental Traits in the Lower Animals

On the left the slothful and lazy are punished; beneath them in two bolge are the passionate and the gluttonous083 souls, and below again the luxurious and avaricious ones. Fra Angelico

In slothful ease all night he lay; The servants rose at break of day; The market calls. Favourite Fables in Prose and Verse

These are sufficient to show that some were diligent, and some slothful; and that among the diligent there were different measures of effort, success, and reward. The Parables of Our Lord

To tragic verse while thou Achilles train'st, And new sworn soldiers' maiden arms retain'st, We, Macer, sit in Venus' slothful shade, And tender love hath great things hateful made. The Works of Christopher Marlowe, Vol. 3 (of 3)

The Book of Proverbs says: 'He that is slothful in his work is brother to him that is a great waster,' and that is true. Expositions of Holy Scripture Second Corinthians, Galatians, and Philippians Chapters I to End. Colossians, Thessalonians, and First Timothy.

In thy house be not slothful, but see to all thyself; put not thy trust in a steward, neither in a servant, that thy guests jeer not at thy house, nor at thy dinner.... A Survey of Russian Literature, with Selections

Parson Trulliber, a fat clergyman, slothful, ignorant, and intensely bigoted.—Fielding, Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook, Vol. 3

They were without discipline or animation; and their horses, like themselves pampered by slothful peace, were little fitted to bear the heat, the dust, and toil, of long campaigns. The Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, April 1844 Volume 23, Number 4

General Howe, who presently superseded Gage, was a brave and well-trained soldier, but slothful in temperament. The War of Independence

Such a life made the Norsemen adventurous, hardy, warlike, independent, and quick of action, while the Celts were by nature more slothful and fond of peaceful social gatherings, though of quicker intellect and wit. The Book of Hallowe'en

When the usual hour of prayer arrived the myrmidons of the law sallied forth, and with leathern whips drove all slothful Moslems to their devotions. The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India—Volume I (of IV)

He, upon whose careless head Never any load is laid, With an earthward eye doth oft Stoop and lounge too slothfully: Burdened heads are held aloft With a nobler dignity. Continental Monthly , Vol. 6, No. 1, July, 1864 Devoted to Literature and National Policy.

In the nineteenth he, in profound humility, applies to himself, with tears, whatever the prophet spoke against slothful mercenary pastors. The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints January, February, March

You rebuked his slothful habits and urged him to activity. Eventide A Series of Tales and Poems

We are all familiar with the parable of the slothful servant who buried his talent—all may profit by his example. Hidden Treasures Or, Why Some Succeed While Others Fail

Then again, if a man be diligent in business, we may expect him to become rich; but if he be slothful, he has nothing to look for but poverty. The Mysteries of All Nations Rise and Progress of Superstition, Laws Against and Trials of Witches, Ancient and Modern Delusions Together With Strange Customs, Fables, and Tales

Fruit enough metaphorical: for the scientific man or artist who cannot make hay while such a sun shines from April to November must be a slothful laborer indeed. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 80, June, 1864

One whose soul is slothful, sensual, and earthly, deserves not to bear the name of a Christian, much less of a minister of the gospel. The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints January, February, March

The people may be too averse to change, too slothful in their own business, unjust to a minority or a majority. Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry

But the Apache Yumas, their mountain blood tainted by the cross with the slothful bands of the arid, desert flats of the lower Colorado, had won a bad name from the start, and deserved it. An Apache Princess A Tale of the Indian Frontier

I rouse and goad the slothful, apt to nod, I stir and urge the laggards with my rod: My praise is not of men, yet I praise God. Poems

The prevalent slothful and slavish surrender of the grand privileges and duties of individual thought, independent personal conviction and action in religious matters, is at once astonishing, pernicious, and disgraceful. The Destiny of the Soul A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life

This slothful monk began to correct his fault upon the charitable admonition of Pompeian, his superior; but, after three days, relapsed into his former sloth. The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints January, February, March

Moreover, there is a strong temptation for the governing people to become as much slothful and sluggards as the weakest of absolute kings. Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry

A man might grow soft muscled literally and figuratively in slothful carelessness, or he might grow hard until he became a machine. The Short Cut

Abercrombie, who led us at Ticonderoga, was fat, old and slothful, and now Wolfe, who leads the new force is young, sickly and fretful. The Sun Of Quebec A Story of a Great Crisis

The church long commended the slothful who let things drift, and called their laziness resignation. Levels of Living Essays on Everyday Ideals

He was an excellent man of affairs, never "slothful in business," but with great practical ability. Hugh Memoirs of a Brother

They thought me slothful, incurious, destitute of knowledge and of all thirst of knowledge, insolent, and profligate. Arthur Mervyn Or, Memoirs of the Year 1793

This Moderation which, since the Sin of Sultan Adam, has ceased to be a Virtue, so enervated their Courage, that they became slothful and timorous. The Amours of Zeokinizul, King of the Kofirans Translated from the Arabic of the famous Traveller Krinelbol

He who shirks in whole or in part is slothful. Explanation of Catholic Morals A Concise, Reasoned, and Popular Exposition of Catholic Morals

For the first time in his life slothful reason arose and fought with desire. Roads from Rome

Hoping that he may not be slothful, but an active and diligent servant of his Lord, will you not give your earnest soul and busy hands to the work which you find to do? Mrs Whittelsey's Magazine for Mothers and Daughters Volume 3

And the more slothful of them excused themselves in the words of the Bible, saying, "I have a wife, and therefore could not come so quickly." The Tales Of The Heptameron, Vol. IV. (of V.)

Again, that old father Augustine denieth it p. 119to be lawful for a monk to spend his time slothfully and idly, and, under a pretended and counterfeit holiness, to live all upon others. The Apology of the Church of England

The child of slothful ease, and sensual heat— By sweet delirious thoughts, in dark retreat, Mature in mischief grown—he springs away, A wingèd god, and thousands own his sway. The Sonnets, Triumphs, and Other Poems of Petrarch

I thanked M. Bartsch heartily and unfeignedly for his extreme civility and kindness, and told him that he should not find me either slothful or ungrateful. A Bibliographical, Antiquarian and Picturesque Tour in France and Germany, Volume Three

Nursemaids will slothfully scare small children into silence by threats of the awful presence of a bogey god. Religious Education in the Family

The good father vowed that if she continued to be so slothful, he would indeed give her some of it, and her mother earnestly begged him to do so. The Tales Of The Heptameron, Vol. IV. (of V.)

Voluptuous 96always and slothful, subtle at times no doubt and sweet beyond measure, full of heavy beauty and warm, slow grace, her features bear no sign of possible love or conscience. Great Pictures, As Seen and Described by Famous Writers

Many successful wooers of the muse have been, fortunately for themselves, the heirs of poverty, and became successful only to yield themselves to fat and slothful ease. The Great German Composers

Persia, Beloochistan, Afghanistan, and even southern Russia had been rifled of their beauties to adorn the zenanas of the slothful Hindu princes. The Adventures of Kathlyn

O, slothful England and careless countrymen! look but on these fellows that we call the plump Hollanders! Andrew Marvell

There can be no doubt," said the Grey Friar, "that it is a very evil habit in young girls to be slothful. The Tales Of The Heptameron, Vol. IV. (of V.)

In slow and mellow fashion he was ripening into slothful and comfortable atrophy. Destiny

The slothful cannot be restrained in their hurry forward, the leaders, shouting with tears, examples of diligence, a pair in the rear crying out instances of sloth. Dante: "The Central Man of All the World" A Course of Lectures Delivered Before the Student Body of the New York State College for Teachers, Albany, 1919, 1920

Hood, we know from his letters, was "of that frame and texture that I cannot be indifferent,"—"full of anxiety, impatience, and apprehension,"—when service seemed to him slothfully done. The Life of Nelson, Volume 1 The Embodiment of the Sea Power of Great Britain

Brethren beloved, do not be content with a slothful, dreamy, uncertain struggle. Sermons Preached at Brighton Third Series

In this island are to be found very good gold mines, but they are not properly worked, for the Indians are all Pintados, and are very slothful. The Philippine Islands, 1493-1803 — Volume 05 of 55 1582-1583 Explorations by Early Navigators, Descriptions of the Islands and Their Peoples, Their History and Records of the Catholic Missions, as Related in Contemporaneous Books and Manuscripts, Showing the Political, Economic, Commercial and Religious Conditions of Those Islands from Their Earliest Relations with European Nations to the Beginning of the Nineteenth Century

The Boer was quick in noting when the proper time arrived for retreat, and he was not slothful in acting upon his observations. With the Boer Forces

At the end of the present conference Dante falls into slumber, from which he is aroused by the racing activity of the souls of the slothful, shouting instances of zeal and energy. Dante: "The Central Man of All the World" A Course of Lectures Delivered Before the Student Body of the New York State College for Teachers, Albany, 1919, 1920

"Paul pictures to us the successful man when he uses these words, 'Not slothful in business, fervent in spirit; serving the Lord.'" Crayon and Character: Truth Made Clear Through Eye and Ear Or, Ten-Minute Talks with Colored Chalks

I have been a slothful servant in thy family, an idle laborer in thy vineyard, 'an unfruitful branch,' a poor dwarfish member in thy body. The Power of Faith Exemplified In The Life And Writings Of The Late Mrs. Isabella Graham.

Massage in some form has long been in use in the East, and is well known as the lommi-lommi of the slothful inhabitants of the Sandwich Islands. Fat and Blood An Essay on the Treatment of Certain Forms of Neurasthenia and Hysteria

Low dost thou lie amid the languid ooze, Because thy slothful spirit doth refuse The bliss of battle and the strain of strife. The Poems of Henry Van Dyke

Dante's slothful souls are startlingly swift in their action. Dante: "The Central Man of All the World" A Course of Lectures Delivered Before the Student Body of the New York State College for Teachers, Albany, 1919, 1920

Of the industrious, busy hand, Solomon says, 'The hand of the diligent shall bear rule, but the slothful shall be under tribute.' Crayon and Character: Truth Made Clear Through Eye and Ear Or, Ten-Minute Talks with Colored Chalks

Be 'not slothful in business, fervent in spirit, serving the Lord.' The Power of Faith Exemplified In The Life And Writings Of The Late Mrs. Isabella Graham.

Pleasure's your portion, and your slothful ease: When man's at leisure, study how to please, Soften his angry hours with servile care, And, when he calls, the ready feast prepare. The works of John Dryden, now first collected in eighteen volumes. Volume 05

Their greed was insatiable, although they were lazy and slothful; and for that reason they practice unheard-of usury. The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 21 of 55 1624 Explorations by early navigators, descriptions of the islands and their peoples, their history and records of the catholic missions, as related in contemporaneous books and manuscripts, showing the political, economic, commercial and religious conditions of those islands from their earliest relations with European nations to the close of the nineteenth century.

Whence one could clearly see that the Virgin, our Lady, was not slothful on that occasion. The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 19 of 55 1620-1621 Explorations by early navigators, descriptions of the islands and their peoples, their history and records of the catholic missions, as related in contemporaneous books and manuscripts, showing the political, economic, commercial and religious conditions of those islands from their earliest relations with European nations to the close of the nineteenth century.

The paralysis of a will that is slothful to good infests and hinders us all. Expositions of Holy Scripture Ezekiel, Daniel, and the Minor Prophets. St Matthew Chapters I to VIII

The two Burghes, who were grossly ignorant, slothful, perverse, and slovenly, got prizes for the regular attendance, into which they were daily dragooned by their father. Ishmael Or, In the Depths

Commencing their labors on a principle of sloth, they have the common fortune of slothful men. The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 03 (of 12)

What a boon that that fat, slothful, ignorant monk no longer shares this room! The Secret Chamber at Chad

This scrutiny is a laborious one; but Truth is the prize of effort in the search therefor, it is not an unearned gift to the slothful and the careless. The Basis of Morality

Opportunities of service, slothfully or faintheartedly neglected, are often withdrawn. Expositions of Holy Scripture Ezekiel, Daniel, and the Minor Prophets. St Matthew Chapters I to VIII

Neither of us, for each other's sake, can have any more cheap thrills, slothful moments, thoughts without courage. Captivity

He should, without being slothful subsist on such water as he gets, and air, and all forest products. The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 4 Books 13, 14, 15, 16, 17 and 18

Among these, the man who is not slothful, who injures no one and who is endowed with charity and other virtues, goes to heaven, after leaving this world of men. The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 1 Books 1, 2 and 3

At day break I hastened to the woods; the hours past on while I indulged in wild dreams that gave wings to the slothful steps of time, and beguiled my eager impatience. Mathilda

But it is better to die sword in hand than in slothful ease. Young Folks Treasury, Volume 2 (of 12)

Their bodies are robust, and they are much given to war, but to all other employment they are slothful. The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 16 of 55 1609 Explorations by Early Navigators, Descriptions of the Islands and Their Peoples, Their History and Records of the Catholic Missions, as Related in Contemporaneous Books and Manuscripts, Showing the Political, Economic, Commercial and Religious Conditions of Those Islands from Their Earliest Relations with European Nations to the Close of the Nineteenth Century

It cannot be the state of one sanctified throughout; of one raised above temptation, either to stray into devious paths, or be slothful in the service of his God. Sermons on Various Important Subjects

And there are in particular some of these who, although inert and slothful, are eager to seem rather than to be wise. Readings in the History of Education Mediaeval Universities

Gorged with what it had eaten, the dusty serpent was now slothful and full of sleep. The Girl at the Halfway House A Story of the Plains

In diligence not slothful; fervent in spirit; serving the Lord. Leaves of Life For Daily Inspiration

Yet be not slothful, nor fierce, nor sleepy, nor niggardly, nor feckless nor envious, for all these are hateful before God and men. The High Deeds of Finn and other Bardic Romances of Ancient Ireland

"And Mark Anthony has nothing but a fat, poverty-stricken, slothful mission priest," Father Rowley gurgled. The Altar Steps

Some find it best to name a certain hour, but then, if they are not called punctually, they feel the resolution broken, and they very likely lie on slothfully. Stray Thoughts for Girls

Some were strong, but knew not how to apply their strength; others were strong but slothful. The Girl at the Halfway House A Story of the Plains

"The slothful man says, There is a lion without, I shall be slain in the streets." Ten Great Religions An Essay in Comparative Theology

He was a large man, broad-shouldered and heavy-muscled; and his face was lazy, phlegmatic, slothful, withal kindly, yet without passion, and quite soulless—a dim soul, unmalicious, unmoral, bovine, and stubborn. The Road

Other nations were depicted as slothful, selfish, decadent; and the decline in the prestige of Great Britain, France, and Russia to some extent justified these pretensions. The Development of the European Nations, 1870-1914 (5th ed.)

It is not a melancholy kind of sitting still, and slothful waiting, that speaks men enlivened by the Spirit and power of God. Christian Mysticism

Minstrels were a slothful lot, averse to the chill of early morning. The Truce of God

They are slothful who lie in bed late in the morning and neglect their duty. Baltimore Catechism, No. 4 An Explanation of the Baltimore Catechism of Christian Doctrine

The General had little hope of them, and informed Sir Thomas Robinson that "their slothful and languid disposition renders them very unfit for military service,"—a point on which he lived to change his mind. Montcalm and Wolfe

Hark how the people talk of such conduct as the slothful negligent trader discovers in his way. The Complete English Tradesman (1839 ed.)

Our middle class, as Bismarck says, has 'gone to fat,' and is too slothful to look for the miseries of others. A Dream of the North Sea

Such are the results for nations, when they betray to the whole world an aristocracy bankrupt of honour, emasculated, and slothful. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 54, No. 333, July 1843

The day is short, the labor great, and the workman slothful. Hebraic Literature; Translations from the Talmud, Midrashim and Kabbala

Oh to love so, be so loved, yet so mistaken What had I on earth to do With the slothful, with the mawkish, the unmanly? The Poetry Of Robert Browning

The slothful fellow would do nothing but sit in the chimney-corner, and eat as much at a time as would serve four or five ordinary men. More English Fairy Tales

But if you have been unfaithful as stewards, and have made your household unproductive for God, then you shall hear from his lips the dreadful denunciation, "Thou wicked and slothful servant!" The Christian Home

It is the baneful narcotic which has soothed the selfish and the slothful from the beginning. Prose Fancies (Second Series)

"Be not slothful, but imitators of them who through faith and patience inherit the promises," Heb. vi. The Divine Right of Church Government by Sundry Ministers Of Christ Within The City Of London

Again, the meanness of my estate doth somewhat move me; for though I cannot accuse myself that I am either prodigal or slothful, yet my health is not to spend, nor my course to get. Bacon

Our train, being the last one up, stopped at every station, and crawled slothfully in the intervals, so that it was past eleven o'clock when we reached Liverpool Street. John Thorndyke's Cases related by Christopher Jervis and edited by R. Austin Freeman

He that is slothful is loath to set about the work he should follow; so is he that is slothful for heaven. The Heavenly Footman

Toil we not here? and shall we be forever slothful elsewhere? Mardi: and A Voyage Thither, Vol. II

But when it gets down to private people volunteerin' for dooty as marshals, folks in the Southwest goes some slothful to work. Wolfville Nights

Instead of the slothful luxury of the Seraglio, the heirs of royalty were educated in the council and the field. Sea-Wolves of the Mediterranean

See you do not be slothful, but get up from this bed, and let us be off to the fields in our shepherd's clothing, as we had agreed. The Children's Hour, v 5. Stories From Seven Old Favorites

He that is slothful doeth his work by the halves: and so it is with him that is slothful for heaven. The Heavenly Footman

In good truth, it is a wearied man, at least a dreadfully slothful and slumberous man, eager for sleep in any quantity, that now addresses you! The Correspondence of Thomas Carlyle and Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1834-1872, Vol II.

From this it is clearly evident how slothful these people are. The Philippine Islands, 1493-1803 — Volume 03 of 55 1569-1576 Explorations by Early Navigators, Descriptions of the Islands and Their Peoples, Their History and Records of the Catholic Missions, as Related in Contemporaneous Books and Manuscripts, Showing the Political, Economic, Commercial and Religious Conditions of Those Islands from Their Earliest Relations with European Nations to the Beginning of the Nineteenth Century

All the old state will come back again if we are slothful and negligent. Expositions of Holy Scripture: Romans Corinthians (To II Corinthians, Chap. V)

Labour not a devil, even when encased in Mammonism: The unredeemed ugliness, a slothful People. Past and Present

Friends, Solomon saith, that "the desire of the slothful killeth him;" and if so, what will slothfulness itself do to those that entertain it? The Heavenly Footman

And how could it be saved if nothing could rouse the King from his slothful indifference? A Heroine of France

Students have been made to study history or algebra by offering prizes to the diligent and by threatening the slothful with punishment. A Librarian's Open Shelf

‘Not slothful in business’ suggests, by reason of our modern restriction of that word ‘business’ to a man's daily occupation, a much more limited range to this exhortation than the Apostle meant to give it. Expositions of Holy Scripture: Romans Corinthians (To II Corinthians, Chap. V)

Associated words: bray, asinine, asininity. do-nothing, a. inactive, idle, lazy, fabian, slothful. doodlesack, n. bagpipe. doom, n. judicial sentence, judgment; destiny, death. door, n. entrance, portal, gate; postern; porch, portico. Putnam's Word Book

He that is slothful, is one that is willing to make delays: so is he that is slothful for heaven. The Heavenly Footman

I would not return to those days of slothful idleness, not for all the gold of the King's treasury. In the Days of Chivalry

If the time becomes slothful and heavy he knows how to arouse it … he can make every word he speaks draw blood. Prefaces and Prologues to Famous Books with Introductions, Notes and Illustrations

And what Paul says is just this—‘In regard to your earnestness in all directions, see that you are not slothful.’ Expositions of Holy Scripture: Romans Corinthians (To II Corinthians, Chap. V)

And was he a product of these soft days, the rushing whirlwinds of Heaven stilled, the land drowsy with the humid heat of a slothful noonday? Broken to the Plow

They that are slothful do usually lose the season in which things are to be done: and thus it is also with them that are slothful for heaven; they miss the seasons of grace. The Heavenly Footman

Dry snow began to rustle slothfully about their feet. Pardners

Hence, too, among the weak, whimsies, affectation, rude disregard of proprieties, slothful neglect of common duties, surrender to the claims of natural appetite, self-indulgence, self-absorption, and self-idolatry. Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli, Volume II

‘Not slothful in business; fervent in spirit; serving the Lord.’ Expositions of Holy Scripture: Romans Corinthians (To II Corinthians, Chap. V)

Popular adages and proverbs are common modes of expressing such deep-lying analogies: for example, "Where there is smoke there is fire"; "The slothful man saith, There is a lion in the way." The Making of Arguments

They that are slothful have seldom, or never, good fruit; so also it will be with the soul-sluggard. The Heavenly Footman

The sincere publican has proceeded on foot; the slothful Pharisee is mounted and gone asleep. The Persian Literature, Comprising The Shah Nameh, The Rubaiyat, The Divan, and The Gulistan, Volume 2

The slothful man loves his bed; the toper his drink, because it throws him into an exhilarative and exquisite mood; the gourmand makes his stomach his god; and the sensualist thinks his delights imperishable. International Weekly Miscellany of Literature, Art, and Science — Volume 1, No. 4, July 22, 1850

‘Not slothful in business; fervent in spirit; serving the Lord.’—ROMANS xii. Expositions of Holy Scripture: Romans Corinthians (To II Corinthians, Chap. V)

Again, the meanness of my estate does somewhat move me; for though I cannot excuse myself that I am either prodigal or slothful, yet my health is not to spend, nor my course to get. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 3

They that are slothful, are chid for the same: so also will Christ deal with those that are not active for him. The Heavenly Footman

We lack in persistence, we resent disparity in the distribution of talents, we blink at responsibility, and are slothful and trifling. A Backward Glance at Eighty Recollections & comment

A man should hasten towards the good, and should keep his thought away from evil; if a man does what is good slothfully, his mind delights in evil. Sacred Books of the East

Their slothful carelessness as to the discipline of the Christian life, and their consequent feebleness of grasp of the Christian verities, made them loose-braced and weak in all respects, and incapacitated them for vigorous warfare. Expositions of Holy Scripture: Romans Corinthians (To II Corinthians, Chap. V)

How nobly Browning set this forth in his Epilogue: What had I on earth to do With the slothful, with the mawkish, the unmanly? Quit Your Worrying!

Your souls are worth a thousand worlds; and will ye be slothful? The Heavenly Footman

At a distance these columns of men, clad in olive drab, made one think of brown caterpillars moving slothfully along. Uncle Sam's Boys with Pershing's Troops Dick Prescott at Grips with the Boche

Helen looked delicious in the yard, gazing pensively at the slothful rhododendron while James Ollerenshaw opened his door. Helen with the High Hand (2nd ed.)

God's ‘Yea’ is answered by our faltering ‘Amen’; God's truth is hesitatingly accepted; God's love is partially returned; God's work is slothfully and negligently done. Expositions of Holy Scripture: Romans Corinthians (To II Corinthians, Chap. V)

A. To show that virtuous men should not be slothful, but diligent and always in action. The Works of Aristotle the Famous Philosopher Containing his Complete Masterpiece and Family Physician; his Experienced Midwife, his Book of Problems and his Remarks on Physiognomy

The day of death and judgment is at the door; and will ye be slothful? The Heavenly Footman

The slothful man says, There is a lion in the path. The Queen of the Air Being a Study of the Greek Myths of Cloud and Storm

There are no doubt some who cry out: "But I am not at all slothful; I am busy from morning to night; of whatever else I may be guilty, it is not of sloth!" Our Lady Saint Mary

The diligent lived well and comfortably and the slothful lived hard and beggarly; and so I believe, generally speaking, it is all over the world. The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe (1808)

Oh, what a witness will that Book be against the slothful, the wilfully ignorant and unbelieving! Parish Papers

Also, your neighbors are diligent for things that will perish; and will you be slothful for things that will endure for ever? The Heavenly Footman

The slothful man says, I shall be slain, and the unslothful, IT shall be. The Queen of the Air Being a Study of the Greek Myths of Cloud and Storm

My friend, busy people are quite often the most slothful people that there are. Our Lady Saint Mary

If there were any who entertained such a feeing, that he would rather they should then confess it to him, than, complaining afterwards, prove themselves slothful and useless soldiers to the state. The History of Rome, Books 27 to 36

Was he cruel and covetous, slothful and indifferent, uncharitable and censorious; or loving, zealous, and self-denying, the author of peace and lover of concord, a friend and brother? Parish Papers

Arise, man! be slothful no longer: set foot, and heart, and all, into the way of God, and run. The Heavenly Footman

The sea had risen, but noiselessly, creeping up and up towards her, no line of white marking the edge of its slothful oncoming. Deadham Hard

The slothful admiral paid for it with his life, but the harm was done. Hero Tales of the Far North

The dark leaden clouds dim the light of the sun, And the dull dreary hours drone slothfully on, Euroclydon forges the cold biting sleet, And the snow-drifts he piles at the traveler’s feet. The Poets and Poetry of Cecil County, Maryland

But though he was quiet, he was not slothful. Masters of Space Morse, Thompson, Bell, Marconi, Carty

The broad space of the Nevski was swallowed up by a vast crowd, very quiet, very amiable, moving easily, almost slothfully, in a slowly stirring stream. The Secret City

When kings grow stubborn, slothful, or unwise, Each private man for public good should rise. The works of John Dryden, now first collected in eighteen volumes. Volume 02

It is a virile virtue in the midst of the calculating and slothful spirit which too ofter veils itself under the pretence or religion. Annie Besant An Autobiography

And he reproved the senate, saying for one thing that they were slothful, did not understand readily, and did not give their votes separately. Dio's Rome, Volume 6 An Historical Narrative Originally Composed in Greek During The Reigns of Septimius Severus, Geta and Caracalla, Macrinus, Elagabalus And Alexander Severus

But if thou dost not feel this cry, take heed that thou be not slothful and secure; pray constantly, for thou art in an evil state. The World's Great Sermons, Volume 01 Basil to Calvin

Then, like Logan, he sank under the curse of drunkenness,—often hardly less dangerous to the white borderer than to his red enemy,—and passed the remainder of his days in ignoble and slothful retirement. The Winning of the West, Volume 1 From the Alleghanies to the Mississippi, 1769-1776

What a poor slothful soul I have been, when heaven shines so bright above me. Religion in Earnest A Memorial of Mrs. Mary Lyth, of York

If, dead to these calls, you already languish in slothful inaction, what will be able to quicken the more sluggish current of advancing years? The Illustrated London Reading Book

I did not respect my sorrow, had no consideration for the weakness and helplessness of Davis, got corrupted, slothful, and finally sent off that fatal letter. Without Dogma

Man was not created for a sedentary or slothful life; but all his organs and attributes are calculated for an existence of activity and industry. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 14, No. 392, October 3, 1829

Dropt manna, and could make the worse appear The better reason, to perplex and dash Maturest counsels; for his thoughts were low To vice industrious, but to nobler deeds Timorous and slothful. Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama, Vol. 1 A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook

Art, profanely veiling its voluptuous nakedness with the attributes of religion, disguises folly so subtly that it seems like virtue in the slothful eyes of those who neglect continually to watch and pray. The Irrational Knot Being the Second Novel of His Nonage

These are naturally exceeding slothful, but, upon the Husband's exerting his Authority, will live upon hard Fare, and do every thing to please him. The Spectator, Volume 2.

Thus a laborer may be dirty, drunken, untruthful, slothful, untrustworthy in every way without exhausting the indulgence of the country house. Treatise on Parents and Children

The slothful effeminacy of the former exposed them to the contempt, the sullen ferociousness of the latter excited the aversion, of the conquerors. History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 1

Tut, tut, Mr. Philander; this is no time to indulge in slothful ease. Tarzan of the Apes

His life is neither tost in boisterous, seas, Or the vexatious world, or lost in slothful ease; Please and full blest he lives when he his God can please. The Compleat Angler

To know I wear away life's glorious spring In such effeminate and slothful leisure Is to my troubled heart a constant sting, And takes away the taste of every pleasure. Orlando Furioso

The bourgeoisie has disclosed how it came to pass that the brutal display of vigour in the Middle Ages, which Reactionists so much admire, found its fitting complement in the most slothful indolence. The Communist Manifesto

The diligent lived well and comfortably, and the slothful hard and beggarly; and so, I believe, generally speaking, it is all over the world. The Further Adventures of Robinson Crusoe

As a matter of fact, nothing could be more slothful or slow, more given up to a life of ease and degeneracy, than the "reef-building polypifer"—to give him his scientific name. The Blue Lagoon: a romance

In youth they grow slothful in body and weak in mind. Good Stories for Holidays

Then gladly one forsook his task undone And with the Tempter went his slothful way, The other toiled until the setting sun With stealing shadows blurred the dusty day. In Flanders Fields and Other Poems

An unclean person is universally a slothful one, one who sits by a stove, whom the sun shines on prostrate, who reposes without being fatigued. Walden

I rage in my household when the whim takes me, and I am hot-headed, and masterful, and slothful, and should belike be untrue if there were any force to drive me thereto. The Well at the World's End: a tale

Sir 22:1 A slothful man is compared to a filthy stone, and every one will hiss him out to his disgrace. Deuterocanonical Books of the Bible Apocrypha

Their general character and habits were those of other Indian tribes, but they were reputed somewhat cowardly and slothful. France and England in North America; a Series of Historical Narratives — Part 3

It was cowardly and slothful to doubt of life so long as a spark of life and power glowed in my veins. The Indian Lily and Other Stories

There content had blessed him again; content not slothful but inciting; a content that embraced his own beloved West, fashioning first in fancy and then by deed, its own proud future. The Spenders A Tale of the Third Generation

I hardly knew what to write, but I fixed upon a passage of Scripture, 'Not slothful in business, fervent in spirit, serving the Lord.' Life in London or, the Pitfalls of a Great City

Sir 22:2 A slothful man is compared to the filth of a dunghill: every man that takes it up will shake his hand. Deuterocanonical Books of the Bible Apocrypha

Will they not necessarily be slothful, if you are silent and sleep? An Explanation of Luther's Small Catechism

Here he passed a fruitless, enervating life, slothful, restless and humiliating; at home there awaited him light, useful work, dreamless sleep, and the tonic sense of being the master. The Indian Lily and Other Stories

But on this morning there is no slothful skulking in the arms of Morpheus. Camps, Quarters, and Casual Places

And that maketh thee so slothful and so lither, I dare say he was six hours coming hither, When I sent him to make provision afore, Not passing a mile hence or very little more. A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 2

There were but three elephants, two camels, and a most meagre display of those alluring cages made to afford even the careless eye a sudden, quickening glimpse of restless, tawny form, or slothful hulk within. Meadow Grass Tales of New England Life

"Their slothful loves and dainty sympathies" is an exquisite line, but you knew that when you wrote 'em, and I trifle in pointing such out. The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 5 The Letters of Charles and Mary Lamb, 1796-1820

To judge rashly is proper to slothful souls, which, because they never busy themselves with their own concerns, have leisure to devote their energies to finding fault with others. The Spirit of St. Francis de Sales

Now, however, all such feelings are cowed before him: your slothful apathy has taken away their only rallying point; and it is this apathy that I bid you put off to-day. The Public Orations of Demosthenes, volume 1

Superstition, in fact, takes a pride in rendering man slothful, in moulding him to credulity, in making him pusillanimous. The System of Nature, Volume 1

Leisure is found only in the dictionary of the slothful. A Fleece of Gold; Five Lessons from the Fable of Jason and the Golden Fleece

Wherefore I exhort fault-finders to bridle their tongue, and not let it rashly loose, but rather consider that the Lord has often devised such things, that he might profit those who were too slothful. The Hermits

"But," you say, "if I, as it were, dally with the temptation, either from inadvertence or torpor, or slothful unwillingness to reject and repel it, is not that in a way taking pleasure in it?" The Spirit of St. Francis de Sales

But lazy and slothful ministers were fortunately rare in New England. Sabbath in Puritan New England

The Hollander is laborious and industrious in Europe; he becomes more languid and slothful in India. An Essay on the History of Civil Society, Eighth Edition

I now come to a curious episode—the most curious, I think, that had yet accented my slothful, valueless, heedless career. Roughing It, Part 4.

Not slothful in business; fervent in spirit; serving the Lord.—ROM. xii. Daily Strength for Daily Needs

Why, then, am I so slothful and lax in the quest after my wandering sheep? The Spirit of St. Francis de Sales

The two youngsters displayed traits almost absolutely opposite; the elder, Manuel, was of a frivolous, slothful, indolent disposition, and would neither study nor go to school. The Quest

The slothful even—those who seem impelled to nothing—refrain from effort because they put their faith in idleness as the one thing above all others desirable. The Elements of Character

By their incessant operations, properties small and great would be continually passing from the slothful and the old-fashioned to the enterprising and modern- educated. Speculations from Political Economy

May 29 Be not slothful, but followers of them who through faith and patience inherit the promises.—HEB. vi. Daily Strength for Daily Needs

It is right to take compassion upon sinners, but it must be with the intention of extricating them from the mire, not of slothfully leaving them to rot and perish in it. The Spirit of St. Francis de Sales

The empire slothfully cast the whole burden of the war upon Austria. Germany from the Earliest Period Volume 4

Those who labor steadfastly, with no end in view but the acquisition of worldly, perishable advantages, answer it fearfully; but theirs is not a more desperate reply than comes from the idler and the slothful. The Elements of Character

If the time becomes slothful and heavy, he knows how to arouse it: he can make every word he speaks draw blood. Poems By Walt Whitman

But his lord answered him, 'You wicked and slothful servant. The World English Bible (WEB): Matthew

And do not be ashamed of your function, nor slothful nor cowardly in its discharge. Expositions of Holy Scripture St. Luke

The slothful bishops and abbots of the empire were, on the other hand, treated with the utmost respect by the Catholic soldiery. Germany from the Earliest Period Volume 4

During the period of their dominion in England, the Anglo-Saxons, so far from showing themselves an enterprising people were notoriously weak, slothful, and degenerate, overrun by the Danes, and soon permanently subjected by the Normans. Handbook of Universal Literature From the Best and Latest Authorities

The hawk is on the wing; the murderous mink and weasel never cease their crimes; the bird seeks the slothful worm and jumping insect; the fox, cat, and wolf forever quest for food. Hunting with the Bow and Arrow

Belial, who though timorous and slothful, was a persuasive orator, denounced Moloch's plan. National Epics

The slothful servant, too, was under this compulsion of absolute honesty. Expositions of Holy Scripture St. Luke

Only laziness sometimes dresses itself in the garb and speaks with the tongue of faith, and pretends to be truthful when it is only slothful. Expositions of Holy Scripture St. John Chapters I to XIV

Ignorance of the fulness of the gift, and slothful timidity in daring everything in the effort to make it ours, explain a great deal of the present condition of Christian people. Expositions of Holy Scripture Deuteronomy, Joshua, Judges, Ruth, and First Book of Samuel, Second Samuel, First Kings, and Second Kings chapters I to VII

But, by the soul of Thomas of Longueville, you shall not find Patrick Charteris slothful in a matter of this importance. The Fair Maid of Perth Or, St. Valentine's Day

Henry declared to Parliament that they deserved to be abolished, because of the "slothful and ungodly lives" led by the inmates. Early European History

To commemorate the dead with slothful wailings, is not the principal office of friends: they are to remember his dying wishes, to fulfil his last desires. The Reign of Tiberius, Out of the First Six Annals of Tacitus; With His Account of Germany, and Life of Agricola

单词	slothful
例句	slothful Shame to the slothful and woe to the weak one. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z And it is clear that white Americans are not simply unwilling to effect these changes; they are, in the main, so slothful have they become, unable even to envision them. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z For the rest of the week, I was peevish and slothful. Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!: Voices from a Medieval Village 2007-07-24T00:00:00Z At the same time, others construed even the most slothful forms of idleness as a bold resistance to modernity's greatest ills. "Doing nothing" is all the rage — is it a form of resistance or just an indulgence for the lucky few 2021-03-27T04:00:00Z Branding the film "slothful" and "indulgent", Empire Magazine's Simon Crook its "lumpen slapstick, casual sexism and a smug tone". Grown Ups 2 tops Razzie nominations 2014-01-15T10:46:57Z For each letter about slothful guests who lift not a finger, I receive nearly as many complaining about guests who won’t back off. Social Q’s: Social Q’s: Raising the Roof Over a Daughter’s Holiday Guest 2012-11-08T23:06:21Z Even his good friend, the notoriously slothful Adam Sandler, has stretched his ability on numerous occasions. Kevin Can Wait: is Kevin James an acting genius or a one-trick pony? 2016-09-19T04:00:00Z We were self-interested and self-absorbed, apathetic, slothful, narcissistic—or so we were frequently told. New York’s Climate Strike and the Things That Make Teen-Agers March 2019-09-20T04:00:00Z That called for building core strength and then while doing production if I had to go slothful, I would stop training completely. A Minute With: Vin Diesel on going dark, getting ripped and Facebook 2013-09-04T12:48:34Z I’m talking to people who have the audacity to lean on well-intentioned phrases like “love yourself at any weight” as a way to excuse their slothful lifestyle. Sometimes, you can’t love yourself at any size: How I lost 160 pounds 2015-04-12T04:00:00Z The only sneaky good moments in the episode have almost nothing to do with the rap dramedy slothfully unfolding at its center. The Simpsons mixes The Great Gatsby with hip-hop in misfiring special 2017-01-16T05:00:00Z Digital comics are clearly the format of choice for the slothful. ArtsBeat Blog: Rating the No. 1's: 'Justice League' 2011-08-31T20:13:26Z There, he'll be able to indulge slothful male habits like watching television in bed. Sex and the City 2 Leaves Fans Behind 2010-05-26T23:05:00Z We’re told to push them out to fend for themselves financially or risk raising irresponsible adults — slothfully living in their childhood bedroom or the basement — incapable of managing their money. Advice \| Let adult children fend for themselves? That’s outdated in today’s economy. 2022-09-20T04:00:00Z Conquest would allow American men to shed the temptations of the “slothful life” and become a “more manful race.” Opinion \| Josh Hawley and the Republican Obsession With Manliness 2021-12-04T05:00:00Z Carnegie stated that "It were better for mankind that the millions of the rich were thrown into the sea than so spent as to encourage the slothful, the drunken, the unworthy." Manchin's means-testing requirement is a recipe for building back worse 2021-10-27T04:00:00Z The rest of us tended toward a more slothful nakedness; we swam, we sunned, we had picnics of cheese and wine. Letter of Recommendation: Naturism 2019-01-29T05:00:00Z Politics usually is grounded in grievances, and Hampel nurses AfD’s originating complaint, which was that Germany’s role under the European Union’s common currency has been to bail out slothful, spendthrift Greeks and other Southern Europeans. Opinion \| Alternative for Germany is a Rorschach test for anyone watching the country 2019-01-09T05:00:00Z This will return a slothful, decadent Britain to its essence, reveal the country’s plucky character. Opinion \| The lure of chaos is leading Britain straight into the abyss 2018-12-21T05:00:00Z If there were obvious bargains, a little effort would bring riches at the expense of slothful investors. The growth of index investing has not made markets less efficient 2018-07-05T04:00:00Z Society has its own sort of perception of people like me - we are disgusting, fat, slothful, lazy, incompetent, stupid. ‘OK, I’m fat - and this is how it feels’ 2018-05-12T04:00:00Z His teammates remained on the court and played basketball at the same slothful pace. ‘No fun to watch’: Spiraling Wizards fall at home to tanking Hawks 2018-04-06T04:00:00Z “They fought their way to control by rebate and drawback, bribe and blackmail, espionage and price cutting, and perhaps more important, by ruthless, never slothful efficiency of organization.” The Case Against Google 2018-02-20T05:00:00Z No, their aim was unmistakable, and - thanks to a slothful prosecutor - they walked away with less than a slap on the wrist. Editorial Roundup: Recent editorials in Arkansas newspapers 2017-11-07T05:00:00Z Sasse sprinkles the book with occasional disclaimers that however much he may be criticizing, if not lambasting, millennials, his true wrath is reserved for the parents rather than their slothful progeny. Opinion \| A U.S. senator’s plea for today’s kids to shake off the coddling and grow up 2017-07-21T04:00:00Z The slothful, the sickly or the socially inept can now order groceries with their cellphones. Another one bites the dust: the 'five second rule' has been debunked \| Dave Schilling 2016-09-19T04:00:00Z He runs the race as The Blerch, his slothful alter-ego, dressed in an inflatable plastic suit, while runners dressed as fast food jog along a course lined with cake and couches. Hardworking, ticked off, driven by rage and anxiety: The Oatmeal isn’t who you think he is 2016-08-11T04:00:00Z He says: “Obese people, obese animals are not fat because they are lazy and slothful and bad, but they are fighting their biology.” Labradors may be genetically 'hard-wired' for greed 2016-05-03T04:00:00Z A friend with equally slothful children commiserated with me. Kids would rather play Xbox than make money shoveling. It’s pitiful. 2016-01-25T05:00:00Z Bush's slothful insult toward a storied city felled by a hurricane – tipping Air Force One's wings over New Orleans in 2005 – was the tipping point of his presidency. A Pretty Good Year in a Pretty Bad Century 2015-12-29T05:00:00Z Nick Offerman, the comic he-man of Parks and Recreation, stars as Ignatius J Reilly, a gluttonous and concupiscent layabout, slothfully adrift in New Orleans. Fall theater preview: big names aren't just for Broadway this year 2015-08-27T04:00:00Z On Labor Day 1971, Nixon contrasted industrious and purposeful men with lazy and slothful protesters demanding government programs. It didn’t start with Limbaugh and Trump: The deep roots of the GOP’s war on women 2015-08-22T04:00:00Z “We may be slothful,” he said, “but we don’t mess around with our data and facts.” A Deadly Sin at the Aldrich, From the Comfort of an Armchair 2015-08-21T04:00:00Z It is mindless, shallow, slothful, ersatz, and, ultimately, disrespectful of anyone you are speaking to. Why You Need to Stop Saying 'Awesome' 2015-04-24T04:00:00Z As you go through the day, the watch prompts you to move around more often if you start to feel slothful. Dear Diary: My Week Wearing an Apple Watch 2015-04-08T04:00:00Z The company is a slothful behemoth with copious fat reducing its ability to move quickly. Huh? As IBM Readies To Perform The Biggest Corporate Employee Cull In History, It Claims Cloud Leadership 2015-01-26T05:00:00Z It pushed the Capitals’ lead to 3-0 after they regrouped from a slothful, scoreless first period. Alex Ovechkin’s highlight-reel goal powers Capitals to 4-0 win over New Jersey 2014-12-20T05:00:00Z For a period of months, he had this book, ‘Confederacy of Dunces,’ and I said, ‘You’re like the hero in the book,’ ” he says, referring to the brilliant, eccentric, philosophical but also slothful main character. A father’s scars: For Va.’s Creigh Deeds, tragedy brings unending questions We are a slothful lot and the most common reason given for not doing enough exercise is lack of time. Can you cheat your way to fitness? 2014-10-28T04:00:00Z We were not created to lie around slothfully. HAGELIN: Developing work ethic ensures kids’ future happiness 2014-08-19T04:00:00Z Their fans argue that these corporate forms are better suited to a world of high tax, red tape and low interest rates than slothful public companies. The reversion of a species 2014-08-14T04:00:00Z As Jakarta’s governor, he expanded access to health care, launched the construction of a long-overdue urban railway to ease congestion in the traffic-choked city and insisted its often slothful civil servants improve their performance. Indonesia’s Moment 2014-07-31T04:00:00Z When you start the day by sleeping past the alarm or cutting corners in the morning, you’re more likely to continue that slothful attitude later in the day. Laziness Isn't A Personality Flaw--It's Just A Habit 2014-07-10T04:00:00Z Fixing it needs many structural reforms, ranging from liberalisation to privatising state-owned enterprises, speeding up slothful courts and fighting endemic corruption. Atwitter about Matteo Renzi 2014-07-10T04:00:00Z Not only are fat people slothful and gluttonous, but—because obesity is a deadly and costly disease—they risk their own health and the economic health of the nation. Michelle Obama is Supporting Fat Shaming 2013-12-17T17:05:17Z Jackson, Miss., is the most slothful city in the U.S., according to Men's Health magazine's rankings. Children, don't try this trick shot at home 2013-05-17T00:32:03Z But if he is keen to engender a sense of crisis, that is understandable – and not only because a slothful regulator wishes to cover its back against the worst case. Energy prices: a political power play 2013-02-19T21:05:37Z I think the reason I don't work more often - I have a slow rhythm, a slothful rhythm even. Transcript: Daniel Day-Lewis on The Andrew Marr Show 2013-01-27T01:18:05Z And a captive audience of New York City’s transit leaders, obliged to listen to, or at least pretend to listen to, rider soliloquies involving slothful buses, impolitic railroad ticket agents, subway stations in disrepair. Good News Gets a Hearing, a Transit Agency Rarity 2013-01-24T03:19:58Z The Lancet also revealed that we in Britain are among the most slothful nations in the developed world, with 63.3% of us failing to meet the recommended physical activity guidelines. Will the Olympics leave a legacy of good health? 2012-08-15T11:24:20Z In this country it is regarded as a problem, but there’s sometimes a slothful response.” Officials ready Libor probe in Great Britain 2012-07-28T00:47:44Z German voters are even more skeptical than their leaders about financing their “slothful” and “profligate” neighbors. Economic Scene: Why Germany Will Pay Up to Save the Euro 2012-06-26T19:47:28Z That the heresy should cross the boundary line was inevitable, and it ran little risk of detection and persecution by a worldly and slothful priesthood, until it gained strength enough to declare itself openly. A History of The Inquisition of The Middle Ages; volume II 2012-04-18T02:00:12.957Z Your lads are slothful, and are idling in the streets. Jeremiah A Drama in Nine Scenes 2012-04-10T02:00:19.943Z "Wicked and slothful servant"—wicked, because he had robbed God of His rights; slothful, because he would not raise a finger to serve his Master. Ortus Christi Meditations for Advent 2012-03-23T02:00:31.917Z The rajah sunk into a state of slothful dissipation, varied by the occasional intemperate exercise of the power left him within the limits of the fortress, his residence. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 1. No 1, June 1850 2012-03-21T02:00:31.390Z If the class has dropped into slothful and habitual carelessness and inattention, he will have to give them a few severe jolts; he must drop questions where they are least expected. Special Method in the Reading of Complete English Classics In the Grades of the Common School 2012-03-17T02:01:04.053Z So help us to honor Thee in all the duties of life,—"Not slothful in business,—fervent in spirit,"—pleasing Thee and therefore happy ourselves. The Optimist's Good Morning 2012-03-15T02:00:23.453Z Where are they who disclose his spirit, who can spur on the slothful and make the deaf hear? Jeremiah A Drama in Nine Scenes 2012-04-10T02:00:19.943Z Slug′gish, habitually lazy: slothful: having little motion: having little or no power.—adv. Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 4 of 4: S-Z and supplements) 2012-01-30T03:00:19.113Z Employ thy hours full wisely, and tend thy household well, Be never slothful, woe and death with idleness do dwell. The Thirteenth Greatest of Centuries 2012-01-28T03:00:21.937Z The only needful pleasure is that which Nature herself bestows on a mind free from care, passion, violent emotion, restless discontent, and slothful apathy. The Roman Poets of the Republic 2012-01-15T03:00:14.187Z Police are for sentimentalists and cowards and men of slothful ease. The Great Illusion A Study of the Relation of Military Power to National Advantage 2012-01-11T03:00:19.077Z See slothful Spaniards golden empires keep, And rule vast realms beyond the Atlantic deep; Must we alone surrender half our reign, And they their empires and their worlds retain? The Poems of Philip Freneau, Volume II (of III) 2012-01-10T03:00:15.980Z I do therefore believe, that I ought not to be idle nor slothful, and that, on the contrary, I should strive without ceasing to acquire the Kingdom of Heaven by my good Works. The Memoirs of Charles-Lewis, Baron de Pollnitz, Volume IV Being the Observations He Made in His Late Travels from Prussia thro' Germany, Italy, France, Flanders, Holland, England, &C. in Letters to His Friend. Discovering Not Only the Present State of the Chief Cities and Towns; but the Characters of the Principal Persons at the Several Courts. 2012-01-09T03:00:26.543Z In slothful ease, a while I took delight, And thought all Poets mad that us'd to write. Selected Poems (1685-1700) 2011-12-27T03:00:09.253Z The last was the "wicked and slothful," because unprofitable, servant. Knowledge is Power: A View of the Productive Forces of Modern Society and the Results of Labor, Capital and Skill. 2011-12-24T03:08:00.833Z He was right; men are more slothful than timid, and their greatest fear is of the burdens that an uncompromising honesty and nakedness of speech and action would lay on them. Thoughts Out of Season (Part II) 2011-12-07T03:00:18.847Z The people of the farm-houses respected Don Joaqu�n, though as regards the assistance of his poverty they were remiss and slothful. The Cabin [La barraca] 2011-12-01T03:00:23.247Z Then, laying myself within Ariseep’s kraal, I waited for the slothful dawn. From Veldt Camp Fires 2011-12-01T03:00:21.397Z The strong and the willing saw that they were yoked to those who were weak and slothful; there was no chance for natural abilities to assert themselves, no reward for individual excellence. Stories of the Badger State 2011-11-27T03:00:12.687Z He has not been "the wicked and slothful servant." Knowledge is Power: A View of the Productive Forces of Modern Society and the Results of Labor, Capital and Skill. 2011-12-24T03:08:00.833Z But the world dims our fine gold: the minstrel is slothful, and singers forget to sing, because of the pain and travail which go to the finding of their songs. Aucassin & Nicolette And Other Mediaeval Romances and Legends 2011-11-24T03:00:40.487Z "If a man would hasten towards the good, he should keep his thought away from evil; if a man does what is good slothfully, his mind delights in evil." Ancient Faiths And Modern A Dissertation upon Worships, Legends and Divinities 2011-11-24T03:00:37.917Z Gilla Dacker means "a slothful fellow"—a fellow hard to move, hard to manage, hard to have anything to do with. Old Celtic Romances 2011-11-19T03:00:26.863Z The dull world Hath need of you—the purblind, slothful world! The Epic of Hades In Three Books 2011-11-16T03:00:28.060Z Duke pulled steadily, keeping the chains fairly tight; Jenny, her ears wobbling, but now and then laid back in protest at one thing or another, slothfully dragged her long legs. The Pike's Peak Rush Terry in the New Gold Fields 2011-11-11T03:00:26.697Z Genius and Heroism—the most strenuous of human things—were never dull, slothful, idle; never slighted opportunity, but always make, if they do not find it. Homes of American Statesmen With Anecdotical, Personal, and Descriptive Sketches 2011-11-04T02:00:19.293Z U Thlen is described as being slothful and sleepy, never rousing himself except to seek food. Folk-Tales of the Khasis 2011-11-01T02:00:19.730Z Now with resplendent flood Gladden my waking eyes, And stir my slothful blood To joyous enterprise. The Poetical Works of Robert Bridges 2011-10-22T02:00:26.887Z He was a man remarkably temperate, never slothful, of strong constitution, and willing to ride or walk till old age gained upon him and moderated such inclination. The Chronicle of Jocelin of Brakelond: A Picture of Monastic Life in the Days of Abbot Samson 2011-10-18T02:00:19.523Z The slothful and luxurious emperor let things slide, and had not even a fleet ready to send against them in the Aegean. The Byzantine Empire 2011-10-16T02:00:16.630Z The war had dragged him from a life of slothful ease to one of bustle and discomfort. Servants of the Guns 2011-10-06T02:00:39.987Z "The slothful man saith, There is a lion without, I shall be slain in the streets." The Baptist Magazine, Vol. 27, 1835 2011-10-03T02:00:25.363Z In no age more than ours has the deep need and earnest hope of society better interpreted the apostle’s definition of a truly practical man, “Not slothful in business, fervent in spirit, serving the Lord.” The Hearth-Stone Thoughts upon Home-Life in Our Cities 2011-09-28T02:00:22.560Z At each subway entrance and elevated stairway loitered a seemingly slothful and impassive character whom his trained eye easily identified as a detective. The Gray Phantom's Return 2011-09-22T02:00:27.150Z Inclined now to believe Joan inspired, the slothful King fretted at the thought of the trials and cares that the threatened vigorous renewal of hostilities against the English was to inflict upon him. The Executioner's Knife Or Joan of Arc 2011-09-13T02:00:34.817Z But passing by that, we come to the last part of this threefold message, the solemn warning to a slothful servant. The Expositor's Bible: Colossians and Philemon 2011-09-09T02:01:07.157Z The slothful years had vanished in the twinkling of an eye. Caught by the Turks 2011-09-09T02:01:01.073Z He is willing very honestly to accept the motto, “not slothful in business” for himself and all in his employment. The Hearth-Stone Thoughts upon Home-Life in Our Cities 2011-09-28T02:00:22.560Z Where it was needful money was sent; the slothful were roused with manifestoes. The Deluge, Vol. II. (of 2) An Historical Novel of Poland, Sweden, and Russia. 2011-09-05T02:00:23.933Z His Lord answered and said unto him, Thou wicked and slothful servant. Thoughts for the Quiet Hour 2011-09-03T02:00:17.117Z The servant who thinks of God as a harsh exactor is slothful; the servant who thinks of Him as the “giving God” rejoices in toil. The Expositor's Bible: Colossians and Philemon 2011-09-09T02:01:07.157Z Reconciliation is the parent of slothful thinking and of glosses; it is by sharp contrasting of the opposing views that we are like to have new facts elicited, and new lines of inquiry suggested. The Biological Problem of To-day Preformation Or Epigenesis? The Basis of a Theory of Organic Development 2011-08-29T02:01:04.170Z In its own way it will repeat the second clause of the apostle, and add “fervent in spirit” to “not slothful in business.” The Hearth-Stone Thoughts upon Home-Life in Our Cities 2011-09-28T02:00:22.560Z The manifesto of the king completed these, and brought the most slothful to their feet. The Deluge, Vol. II. (of 2) An Historical Novel of Poland, Sweden, and Russia. 2011-09-05T02:00:23.933Z After two months of slothful ease, something more exciting became imperative, and just then the racing season began and supplied that need. Get-Rich-Quick Wallingford 2011-08-11T02:00:13.017Z And why did a man whom friends and co-workers described in typical terms — quiet, gracious, respectful — serve a suspension last year after appearing surly and slothful in a rider’s video aboard a bus? In a Death, as in a Life, a Cloak of Mystery 2011-08-03T04:20:19Z For the bishops of our time are not like what bishops used to be; they are careless and slothful about their office, and embrace the world with all their arms.” The English Church in the Middle Ages 2011-08-01T02:00:14.773Z Saw, too, how his whole body became overcast with a thickening, flabby garment of fat, like a net that bound his slothful limbs.... The Sea Bride 2011-07-30T02:00:14.537Z It’s the British summer—and Parliament has just closed for its slothful three-month recess. Rupe?s Hacks Dodge Flak 2011-07-25T05:00:00Z But in these present days, which are evil, men grow slothful, wherefore now the gentle minstrels will venture little; for know ye of a sooth it is no light thing to tell a goodly tale. Tales from the Old French 2011-07-09T02:00:12.200Z Agricultural development.—The original instructions had provided that the products of labor should belong to the community instead of to the individual, an arrangement by which the slothful profited at the expense of the industrious. The Colonization of North America 1492-1783 2011-07-06T02:00:47.077Z Not slothful in business, fervent in spirit, serving the Lord, is piety in America—something contrasting remarkably with the mystical and world-renouncing pietismus of modern Germany. The International Monthly, Volume 4, No. 3, October, 1851 2011-07-02T02:00:11.323Z He was in one of his slothful moods, half asleep in the after cabin; and he shook his great head. The Sea Bride 2011-07-30T02:00:14.537Z Sharapova sounded relieved she had found a partner who did not view her sleeping habits as slothful. Up in the Players? Box, a Fianc?, Fan and Fellow Athlete 2011-06-28T20:14:49Z He never harmed the poor, for he pitied their fate, and only spoiled the wealthy and proud, or nobles and slothful bishops, who lived in state on the fruit of the husbandman's toil. Amusing Prose Chap Books 2011-06-27T02:01:05.043Z Come on! let’s leave her to slothful dreams.” Ruth Fielding at Silver Ranch Schoolgirls Among Cowboys 2011-06-14T02:00:23.130Z Demetrius was a handsome, amiable fellow, of mediocre talent, slothful by nature and indulgence, and more ambitious of social success than of a front place in the class of philosophy. In Both Worlds 2011-06-08T02:00:17.360Z Furthermore, the English infantry first garrisoned there soon proved themselves base, slothful Rogues, who would neither dig nor plant, and in short time many sought to defect to the Spaniards for want of rations. Caribbee 2011-06-05T02:00:16.273Z “All the day before the sunny rays, He used to slug or sleep, in slothful shade.” Amenities of Literature Consisting of Sketches and Characters of English Literature 2011-06-03T02:00:19.227Z It was she who made the convent rules herself, she who gave advice to those who needed it, encouraged the timid, urged on the slothful, and spoke tenderly to those in trouble. Great Englishwomen An Historical Reading Book for Schools 2011-05-23T02:00:09.167Z I will put my talent to usury, and be no slothful steward of what has been entrusted to me. The Life, Letters and Work of Frederic Leighton Volume I 2011-05-22T02:00:16.657Z I am loath to linger here, but I descend into the valley of shadows to show that, even on your own ground, you are a wicked and slothful servant. A New Atmosphere 2011-05-20T02:00:35.903Z Now Louis Philippe, though as active as his predecessors had been slothful, was the least warlike of men. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 7 "Fox, George" to "France" 2011-05-15T02:00:07.897Z Raging at the slothful way these Lakers proceeded through the season is wasted breath. Ventre: Lakers need significant changes 2011-05-09T04:18:04Z As a boy he was slothful and indolent, and when he grew up he had not learned a craft to earn a living. The Gospel of Buddha Compiled from Ancient Records by Paul Carus 2011-04-19T02:00:18.493Z I, slothful sinner that I am, knelt down at my hour of prayer, and it seemed to me as if God were unwilling to give me the least measure of His grace. Matelda and the Cloister of Hellfde Extracts from the Book of Matilda of Magdeburg 2011-04-11T02:00:10.567Z Woe to thee, slothful servant and remiss, That hast thy talent buried in the ground! Renaissance in Italy: Italian Literature Part 1 (of 2) 2011-04-09T02:00:14.990Z They grew slothful in good fortune and forgot their own art, they forgot how to navigate. Life and Death And Other Legends and Stories 2011-04-02T02:00:10.393Z Many there were who were slothful and many were afraid, but the most disbelieved it wholly, for, they said, "How should this boy tell us of a thing of which we have never heard!" The Basket Woman A Book of Indian Tales for Children 2011-03-09T03:00:44.330Z It was the perfect expression of a carefully devised luxury, a luxury which for the last eight years had lapped him in slothful ease. Miss Maitland Private Secretary 2011-03-08T03:00:39.100Z Only to the slothful, and such as loved their ease above all things, early Methodism had no seductions to offer. A Charming Fellow, Volume I (of 3) 2011-03-02T03:00:28.240Z So, being naturally of a slothful disposition, and being quite sure that no young girl would care for architecture, which is my hobby, I suggested my elective study. Nan Sherwood at Lakeview Hall Or the Mystery of the Haunted Boathouse 2011-02-14T03:00:33.337Z For no Brahmin was ever more deeply imbued with the prejudice of caste than this slothful old lady Gordon; and no consideration other than a serious one could disturb her in the least. Oldfield A Kentucky Tale of the Last Century 2011-02-13T03:00:19.953Z He who formerly was slothful, But is slothful now no more, Lighteth up the world with splendour, As the moon from clouds released. The Buddha's Path of Virtue A Translation of the Dhammapada 2011-02-07T03:00:21.273Z Help us to resist its desire to eat, to drink, to sleep overmuch, to be idle, to be slothful. Works of Martin Luther With Introductions and Notes (Volume II) 2011-01-11T03:00:31.950Z The slothful conduct of his friend and his eternal jeremiads appeared to him simply stupid. Sentimental Education Vol 1 2011-01-04T03:01:07.467Z The sailor no longer mounts the ratlines, as if he had cork in his heels, but climbs up sluggishly and slothfully, devoid of his usual pride to be foremost. Memoirs of Service Afloat, During the War Between the States 2011-01-04T03:01:01.887Z The Spaniards have, even in their slothful, unskilled and clumsy fashion, taken out untold wealth; but they only scratched the field; most of what remains is practically virgin soil. The Outlook: Uncle Sam's Place and Prospects in International Politics 2010-12-30T03:00:21Z If this be slothfully neglected, other days and times may possibly succeed, in which we cannot think, hear, speak, or do any good. True Christianity 2010-12-25T03:00:12.817Z The coastmen were expert smugglers and wreckers, the agriculturists were ignorant and drunken, the parish clergy were slothful, in many cases intemperate, and largely given to fox-hunting. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Slice 7 "Bible" to "Bisectrix" 2010-12-20T17:12:05.780Z And the existence of even a slightly strengthened FDA is enough to send them a signal, just as even a slothful, doughnut-munching Chief Wiggum is a better deterrent to criminals than no policeman at all. Why the Food Safety Modernization Act Is Flawed but Needed 2010-12-08T08:25:00Z Here are five quick ideas for a range of do-gooders, from the slothful to the zealous. Help the Gulf Coast: Five ways to volunteer 2010-06-29T15:01:00Z Others were too slothful to man their checkpoints. 'Still a long way to go' for U.S. operation in Marja, Afghanistan 2010-06-10T04:00:00Z He had halted there once, long enough to observe its somewhat slothful condition, and to buy pork and potatoes; but this 26 tale was a revelation, and the girl herself a greater one. The Girl From Tim's Place This latter part refers to the alphabetical arrangement under such headings as honour, diligent, slothful. Proverb Lore Many sayings, wise or otherwise, on many subjects, gleaned from many sources Some Nations, fond of slothful Ease, Trust to deluding Enemies; And striving to avoid Expence, Will leave themselves without defence; But cunning Tyrants call 'em Friends, No longer than it serves their Ends. Aesop Dress'd Or a collection of Fables So, on this morning he went to his work as usual, despite the heat, not slothful enough to delve in a well-filled drawer and read over some "cold meat" for his parishioners. The Gay Adventure A Romance This is a declaration of war on the old, slothfully accepted dogma that to the victor belongs the spoils. The Tempering And great age is apt to be peevish and slothful and childish and fretful and must be ruled. Our Admirable Betty A Romance But he was too slothful to have more than a passive part in the direction of his own government. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 8 "Chariot" to "Chatelaine" He's less fractious and slothful since he was up-ended and spanked in presence of a lady, but on the other hand, there's a lack of joy, cheerfulness, and application. A Man in the Open In truth, religion means freshness, elasticity and hope: a man will be not slothful in business, but fervent in spirit, if he serves the Lord. The Expositor's Bible: The Book of Exodus She wished to be an object lesson of industry to slothful Jean. The Ranch Girls at Rainbow Lodge The Ranch Girls Series But its long years of prosperity proved its undoing, for slothful ease gave way to greater evils. Hastings and Neighbourhood And this was not lacking, though it was discreet applause, promoting no slothful content. Ewing\\'s Lady Keep your mind a total stranger to the ennui of the slothful. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, February, 1852 Sometimes, when the men were in pursuit of elephants, and slept out on the spoor, it seemed as if the slothful hours would never pass. Tales of South Africa Be kindly affectioned one to another with brotherly love; in honor preferring one another; not slothful in business; fervent in spirit; serving the Lord; rejoicing in hope; patient in tribulation; continuing instant in prayer. The Bible Story I have been a slothful father, Anne, and feel myself cowardly also in thus shifting upon your shoulders my own responsibilities. Anne Isabeau de Bavi�re was already of a slothful habit, to be roused only by her love of amusement, to purchase which neither she nor her young husband would spare anything. Women of Mediæval France Woman: in all ages and in all countries Vol. 5 (of 10) The slothful, whose number is great even among the intellectuals, willingly fit themselves to this clumsy acceptance of such declarations. Essays on the Materialistic Conception of History To the indolent, heedless and slothful, we would say, tarry among the flesh pots of Egypt; here we get our bread by the sweat of the brow. Discussion on American Slavery But everything conduces to the dreaminess of her nature, to slothful habits; her activities are fettered by the law of Mohammed. Oriental Women We met a breeze, surprisingly strong, which made even these slothful waters choppy. The Bonadventure A Random Journal of an Atlantic Holiday The dog is slothful, and exertion is followed by distress. The Dog But he could not let himself sink back into a slothful obscurity. Command He declined Gwynne's invitation to dinner, and drove off, looking slothful and amiable once more. Ancestors A Novel But everything conduces to the dreaminess of her nature, to slothful habits; her activities are fettered by the law of Mohammed. Oriental Women It is well worth a trip to California for the slothful, ease-loving denizen of lower countries, to see the country, and recover their manhood. Journal of a Trip to California by the Overland Route Across the Plains in 1850-51 Those who love books seldom hurt them, while the slothful who hate learning, will wear out a book more in a week, than the diligent will do in a year. The Shepherd of Salisbury Plain and Other Tales The three parables of the prudent and evil servant, the wise and the foolish virgins and the faithful and the slothful servants, give us a picture of the state of the entire Christian profession. Studies in Prophecy Who would sleep when beauty such as this is flung broadcast upon the earth, waiting for man to feast his slothful eyes upon it? Rossmoyne It is because we are at once actor and spectator that we find no fault with blinking sight and slothful thought. The Kempton-Wace Letters Nor is she like the fat townswife, heavy and slothful, about whom our fathers made such a number of fat stories. La Sorcière: The Witch of the Middle Ages While I approve these men for not being slothful in business, let me improve the hint, by being also fervent in spirit. The Shepherd of Salisbury Plain and Other Tales Without transition, such persons have passed from the absurd excesses of slothful optimism to the vertigo of unplumbed pessimism. The Forerunners Looking backward from these days of slothful ease in getting about it seems as if the golden days of Ponkapoag were those of a generation and more ago. Old Plymouth Trails The bourgeoisie has disclosed how it came to pass that the brutal display of vigor in the middle ages, which Reactionists so much admire, found its fitting complement in the most slothful indolence. Manifesto of the Communist Party But the book does not end with its hero and heroine lapped in slothful content. Brooke's Daughter A Novel He directed the willing, and gave an example to the slothful. The Shepherd of Salisbury Plain and Other Tales Its greatest fault is its slothful unwillingness to seek renewal. The Forerunners You are slothful, and you help me nothing, so that I am half in conceit you affect not the argument; for myself I know well you love and affect. Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 3 "Nevertheless," replied Elspa Ruet, "I will try; it's my duty, and my sisterly love bids me no to be slothful in the task." Ringan Gilhaize or The Covenanters Tarpons and sharks and sword-fish, monstrous, sinister, moved slothfully in the viscid waters. The Missourian The Christian dare never become slothful or negligent in this matter. Epistle Sermons, Vol. III Trinity Sunday to Advent In the former, which is of little importance, a "slothful cordiality" prevails. The Forerunners If he bestir him and collect them himself, the God shall make him prosperous; but He shall punish him, if he be slothful. The Instruction of Ptah-Hotep and the Instruction of Ke'Gemni The Oldest Books in the World It seems always a mystery, why such earnest, useful souls, doing that highest of all work,—a pure, unselfish charity,—should be taken away, and the slothful, dependent, ease-loving, selfish ones left. Hope Mills or, Between Friend and Sweetheart They are exceedingly clever and imitative, and even show much ability in many occupations and mental exercises; but they are apt to be superficial, incorrect, indifferent to results, slothful and lacking in concentration of mind. The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 - Volume 40 of 55 1690-1691 Explorations by Early Navigators, Descriptions of the Islands and Their Peoples, Their History and Records of the Catholic Missions, as Related in Contemporaneous Books and Manuscripts, Showing the Political, Economic, Commercial and Religious Conditions of Those Islands from Their Earliest Relations with European Nations to the Close of the Nineteenth Century They found that African kings knew the art of being slothful in business. A Story of One Short Life, 1783 to 1818 For the sake of these very multitudes who surrender to the slothful intoxication of collective passion, we must cherish the flame of liberty. The Forerunners We need not undergo the weary ordeal of waiting with him while the clock’s slothful hands creep around the dial. When the West Was Young May I, however, henceforth make the most of my talent, that I be not numbered among the slothful servants at my dear Lord’s most glorious and blessed appearing. Journal of a Residence at Bagdad During the Years 1830 and 1831 Many there were who were slothful, and many were afraid; but the most disbelieved it wholly. Boys and Girls Bookshelf (Vol 2 of 17) Folk-Lore, Fables, And Fairy Tales Then think not I am slothful in the race, Or, that my Brother springs before my Love. The Prince of Parthia A Tragedy Without being slothful, he had been foolishly unaspiring, and he saw that now. They of the High Trails They inherit the kingdom, from which the original heirs who have been wicked and slothful servants, and who have buried their talent in the napkin, are excluded. Orthodoxy: Its Truths And Errors Indolent is a milder term for the same quality; the slothful man hates action; the indolent man loves inaction. English Synonyms and Antonyms With Notes on the Correct Use of Prepositions They have nothing in common with the slothful races of Lower India; they are alert and vigorous and active as cats. Round the Wonderful World With pain the god, His eyelids weigh'd with slothful torpor, rais'd; But at each effort down they sunk again: And on his breast his nodding chin still smote. The Metamorphoses of Publius Ovidus Naso in English blank verse Vols. I & II But count the reach of my desire— Let this be something in thy sight; I have not, in the slothful dark, Forgot the vision and the height. Poems with Power to Strengthen the Soul Neither can he devote himself to a life of comfortable, slothful ease; the new lands have little comfort. Introduction to the Science of Sociology He must be attentive and diligent, even though all others be slothful and careless. Epistle Sermons, Vol. II Epiphany, Easter and Pentecost We read: “Be kindly affectioned one to another with brotherly love; in honor preferring one another; not slothful in business; fervent in spirit; serving the Lord.” Days of Heaven Upon Earth Such are the words of Rabbi Tarphon, “The day is short—the labor vast;—but the laborers are slothful, though the reward is great, and the Master of the house presseth for despatch.” Hebrew Literature Through too much liberty they grew negligent and slothful, envying and reproaching one another, waging, as it were, civil wars among themselves, bishops quarreling with bishops, and the people divided into parties. The Gospel Day Or, the Light of Christianity The bishops and prelates, the slothful and careless curates and ministers; they with their negligence give the devil leave to sow his seed, for they sow not their seed. The Pulpit Of The Reformation, Nos. 1, 2, 3 and 4. If the slothful timid soldier should now possess thee, or the base Saracen, my grief would be unspeakable! Mediaeval Tales The fish did not, verily, alter the motion of its fins, either more slothfully or quicker; but with perfect indifference permitted me to keep the fly dangling before its eyes as long as I pleased. A Yacht Voyage to Norway, Denmark, and Sweden 2nd edition R. Tarphon said, “the day is short, the labor vast, but the laborers are slothful, though the reward is great, and the Master of the house presseth for despatch.” Hebrew Literature If the soul through prosperity or otherwise becomes slothful, disease may be permitted to attack the body, or other afflictions may come to awaken to greater watchfulness. The Gospel Day Or, the Light of Christianity They work the mines, plant cotton, make indigo and sugar, and acquire large fortunes among the slothful and careless Malays. The American Quarterly Review, No. 17, March 1831 "Then," answered the elder, "the kingdom must be mine; for I am so lazy, that sitting once by the fire, I burnt my legs, because I was too slothful to withdraw them." Mediaeval Tales It needed no persuasion to put the most slothful of the crew upon their mettle. The Ocean Waifs A Story of Adventure on Land and Sea They are very likely not base, but only apathetic, slothful, or very tired. Laurus Nobilis Chapters on Art and Life The stupid and the slothful cannot exist in this moving world of busy life and enjoyment. The Quadroon Adventures in the Far West In the midst of a slothful, debauched people, they are distinguished for simplicity, diligence, and ambition. Jewish Literature and Other Essays This is what Adèle used to do, but I nipped this slothful tendency in the bud. The Silver Lining A Guernsey Story "This spirit doth also wonderfully irritate them that are slothful to venery." Aphrodisiacs and Anti-aphrodisiacs: Three Essays on the Powers of Reproduction Another resident of the city then mounted a barrel and made a ringing speech condemning the slothful foreigners, who have proven themselves a menace to the valley and its inhabitants. The Johnstown Horror!!! or, Valley of Death, being A Complete and Thrilling Account of the Awful Floods and Their Appalling Ruin Again the meanness of my estate doth somewhat move me; for though I cannot accuse myself that I am either prodigal or slothful, yet my health is not to spend, nor my course to get. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 1 "Austria, Lower" to "Bacon" I was greatly depressed by my idleness and the uncertainty of my position, and, slothful, hungry, dissatisfied with myself, I wandered over the estate and only waited for an energetic mood to leave the place. The House with the Mezzanine and Other Stories This work is a sermon to the despondent, complaining spirit, and a word of vigorous exhortation to the slothful man. Burl But if the reader, because the Andalusians are slothful, truthless, but moderately honest, vain, concludes that they are an unattractive people he will grossly err. The Land of The Blessed Virgin; Sketches and Impressions in Andalusia But they now speak of serenity and calm�not, indeed, of the unsatisfying ease of the slothful, but of the earned repose of high attainment. The Heart of Nature or, The Quest for Natural Beauty The nine successive years were spent by Licinius in slothful and vicious pleasures, while Constantine devoted his energies to the suppression of barbarians, and the enactment of important laws. Ancient States and Empires People seem to be losing their nerve; reality shocks them, and they live slothfully in the shoddy palaces of Sham Ideals. The Hero He marked how they were falling away from the sober lives and pure faith of their fathers, and losing their wild independence in the slothful and corrupting habits of vagabond existence. Burl He declared that he, when he grew up, would be a Charlemagne, a St. Louis, a Francis First, and expressed great abhorrence of the tyrannical and slothful kings. Louis XIV. Makers of History Series She is pretty in an outward way, but her features are unlit by any glimmer of feeling or thought, or even good nature—a slothful, empty sort of prettiness. An Anarchist Woman And for this blessed work, how slothful and unfit we are. Lord, Teach Us To Pray That ye be not slothful, but followers of them who through faith and patience inherit the promises. Sanctification The presence and comfort of her Bridegroom are again lost to her; not this time by relapse into worldliness, but by slothful self-indulgence. Union And Communion or Thoughts on the Song of Solomon "I mourn the dead, I break the lightning, I announce the Sabbath, I excite the slothful, I disperse the winds, I appease the cruel." The Worship of the Church and The Beauty of Holiness If any one has mistaken their import, is it not on account of a self-seeking, money-getting, or slothful disposition? Thoughts on Missions This game, never one for the slothful and unthinking, he made even more exacting than usual. James B. Eads "As a bride, unwisely wedded, shuns the cold caress of eld, So, from coward souls and slothful, Lakshmi's favours turn repelled." Indian Poetry Containing "The Indian Song of Songs," from the Sanskrit of the Gîta Govinda of Jayadeva, Two books from "The Iliad Of India" (Mahábhárata), "Proverbial Wisdom" from the Shlokas of the Hitopadesa, and other Oriental Poems. Both in Africa and America, accordingly, he tells us, "the savages suppose monkeys to be men; idle, slothful, rational beings, capable of speech and conversation, but obstinately dumb, for fear of being compelled to labour." Heads and Tales : or, Anecdotes and Stories of Quadrupeds and Other Beasts, Chiefly Connected with Incidents in the Histories of More or Less Distinguished Men. And Isidore:—"He cannot have assured confidence in his prayers who even thus far in the commands of God is slothful, and whom the remembrance of sinful doing delights." The Form of Perfect Living and Other Prose Treatises Richard sailed to Acre, where he stirred up slothful pilgrims and entreated them to join his army at Jaffa for the march to Jerusalem. With Spurs of Gold Heroes of Chivalry and their Deeds Perhaps the candidates for it were few; certainly the emoluments were small; perhaps the patron was slothful—certainly he gave little attention to the Church. The Little Manx Nation - 1891 Have none of my readers done the same, been content to get up a task in any way, however slothful and careless? The Crown of Success The ancients devised such a portraiture of Time, to signify that slothful delay should not hinder the execution of our purposes. The Fables of Phædrus Literally translated into English prose with notes God does not honor the slothful, but the man who seeks to make full proof of his ministry. Colleges in America "We desire ... that ye be not slothful, but followers of them who through faith and patience inherit the promises." The Ordinance of Covenanting It was in no way cheap; it did not flatter slothful ears. The Goose Man We are not only the slowest Thinkers of what will do us Good, but we are the most slothful also, in bringing such Thoughts into Execution. A Dialogue Between Dean Swift and Tho. Prior, Esq. In the Isles of St. Patrick's Church, Dublin, On that Memorable Day, October 9th, 1753 But we are not told the cause; on the contrary, subsequent commentary ascribes the fact, in no gentle terms, to the "slothful, filthy habits of the people." Facts for the Kind-Hearted of England! As to the Wretchedness of the Irish Peasantry, and the Means for their Regeneration It was like a vast, drowsy, slothful thing, ignorant, dull, hateful. Stubble Among them Spain was not the least slothful and exacting. William Pitt and the Great War Hence Lakshmaṇ hither comes to break Thy slothful trance and bid thee wake. The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse Naturally indolent and slothful, he detests labour, and looks upon it as a disgrace, though he will go through great fatigue when hunting or engaged in warfare. The Western World Picturesque Sketches of Nature and Natural History in North and South America The slothful servant wraps his talent in a napkin, and buries it in the ground. Expositions of Holy Scripture Ephesians; Epistles of St. Peter and St. John Until then let us not be slothful, but followers of them who through faith and patience inherit the promises. The Story of My Life Being Reminiscences of Sixty Years' Public Service in Canada He had come out again on the morning when, after Daubeny’s failure, Mr Robertson had called him incorrigibly slothful and incapable, and after muttering some more invectives had said something about his being hopeless. St. Winifred's, or The World of School But surely it is possible to "serve the Lord," yet not to be "slothful in business;" not over devoted to it, but not to retire from it. Parochial and Plain Sermons, Vol. VIII (of 8) It lives in solitude; its habits are slothful; it sleeps during the greater part of the day. The Western World Picturesque Sketches of Nature and Natural History in North and South America It is only the slothful and vacillating who either neglect or regret them.’ The Desert Home The Adventures of a Lost Family in the Wilderness The slothful and sluggard's desire slays him, because his hands refuse to labour, Prov. xxi. The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning I’m a ‘bad, idle boy,’ it seems, and ‘incorrigibly slothful,’ and ‘hardly fit for the school,’ and ‘I must be put down to a lower form if I don’t make more effort’—oh! St. Winifred's, or The World of School It makes me seem as slothful as if I omitted a daily passage from "The Following of Christ" or, at least, a weekly chapter from the Epistles of St. Paul! Confessions of a Book-Lover This is indeed a pleasure unknown to those indolent beings who let the sun gain his meridian splendour before they reluctantly leave their slothful beds. The Little Quaker or, the Triumph of Virtue. A Tale for the Instruction of Youth Offered, in the Eternal Mercy, endless precious opportunities of service, he had been too weak, too timorous, too slothful, to lay hold on them. The History of Sir Richard Calmady A Romance “The hand of the diligent shall bear rule but the slothful shall be under tribute,” Prov. xii. The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning He wanted Daubeny to tell Mr Robertson how many hours he had spent in being “incorrigibly slothful” over that particular lesson, but this at the time he could not get him to do. St. Winifred's, or The World of School It’d be no use trying to do anything, even if you weren’t so slothful and sedentary as you are! The Squirrel-Cage This man's crime was simply neglect—"thou wicked and slothful servant." Natural Law in the Spiritual World He said Solomon’s description of the slothful should be written in letters of gold on the walls of the understanding. Helen and Arthur or, Miss Thusa's Spinning Wheel The pleasure and sweetness of God tasted and found, will make diligence and pains more easy than slothfulness can be to the slothful. The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning It required a knowledge of their inert and slothful character to give us courage to attack them with the weapons which we possessed, for in size and appearance they were most formidable-looking monsters. Old Jack Five years after the foundation of Manila, the city and environs were infested with niggardly mendicant friars, whose slothful habits placed their supercilious countrymen in ridicule before the natives. The Philippine Islands It is not only the body that, unchecked, is inclined to be slothful. The Book-Hunter at Home The man who is really, thoroughly, and philosophically slothful is the only thoroughly happy man. Pipefuls In slothful ease Britannia shirks; But haply, near these sundering ditches, Some mute inglorious miler lurks Under a morning coat and breeches. Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 146, January 28, 1914 It is not surprising that the Macedonian Slavs, whose labour brought them such inadequate reward, sank into very slothful habits. The Birth of Yugoslavia, Volume 1 They were pulling the slothful creatures off each other, but as soon as they freed themselves from the pests, more fell from above or crept up from the mud. The Adventures of Piang the Moro Jungle Boy A Book for Young and Old Drawing his long sword from his robust thigh, rising, he cut away the farther horse, nor did he act slothfully. The Iliad of Homer (1873) In a certain village there was a girl who was lazy and slothful, hated working but would gossip and chatter away like anything. Russian Fairy Tales A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore But he adds: "Yet often love stirs up even slothful souls to work, and fear exercises a restraining influence on souls which suffer a disturbing influence in their contemplation." On Prayer and The Contemplative Life He was a cold, indifferent, slothful prince, and constantly the banished house of Obrenović was plotting to turn out this scion of the house of Kara George. The Birth of Yugoslavia, Volume 1 This neighbour-country was rich, great, powerful; but her people were greedy, slothful, asleep. Three Margarets Haste for me, O slothful children, disgraceful; would that you had all been slain at the swift ships, instead of Hector. The Iliad of Homer (1873) I repel the imputation that our race, as a class, is lazy and slothful. Sparkling Gems of Race Knowledge Worth Reading A compendium of valuable information and wise suggestions that will inspire noble effort at the hands of every race-loving man, woman, and child. This is the sentimentalism of those "Who sigh for wretchedness, yet shun the wretched, Nursing in some delicious solitude Their slothful loves and dainty sympathies." The Moral Economy Knights are too fond of women "with golden locks"; peasants are slothful; merchants rapacious and dishonest; they make "false gems out of glass." A Literary History of the English People From the Origins to the Renaissance To this rich, slothful country," Rita went on, dwelling on every adjective with infinite relish, "came a girl, a daughter of the country that was bleeding, dying. Three Margarets They are by nature slothful and heavy, but are easily tamed, and when roused are fierce. Anecdotes of the Habits and Instinct of Animals The actual fall into sin seems to have been begun by slothful abdication of his functions as captain of Israel. The Life of David As Reflected in His Psalms So slothful, however, is man in all that concerns his higher faculties, that few deliberately undertake this education at all. Practical Mysticism A Little Book for Normal People Also, that many insects and even the slothful snail are not so busily engaged in the struggle for existence that they cannot spare a few moments for play. The Dawn of Reason or, Mental Traits in the Lower Animals On the left the slothful and lazy are punished; beneath them in two bolge are the passionate and the gluttonous083 souls, and below again the luxurious and avaricious ones. Fra Angelico In slothful ease all night he lay; The servants rose at break of day; The market calls. Favourite Fables in Prose and Verse These are sufficient to show that some were diligent, and some slothful; and that among the diligent there were different measures of effort, success, and reward. The Parables of Our Lord To tragic verse while thou Achilles train'st, And new sworn soldiers' maiden arms retain'st, We, Macer, sit in Venus' slothful shade, And tender love hath great things hateful made. The Works of Christopher Marlowe, Vol. 3 (of 3) The Book of Proverbs says: 'He that is slothful in his work is brother to him that is a great waster,' and that is true. Expositions of Holy Scripture Second Corinthians, Galatians, and Philippians Chapters I to End. Colossians, Thessalonians, and First Timothy. In thy house be not slothful, but see to all thyself; put not thy trust in a steward, neither in a servant, that thy guests jeer not at thy house, nor at thy dinner.... A Survey of Russian Literature, with Selections Parson Trulliber, a fat clergyman, slothful, ignorant, and intensely bigoted.—Fielding, Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook, Vol. 3 They were without discipline or animation; and their horses, like themselves pampered by slothful peace, were little fitted to bear the heat, the dust, and toil, of long campaigns. The Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, April 1844 Volume 23, Number 4 General Howe, who presently superseded Gage, was a brave and well-trained soldier, but slothful in temperament. The War of Independence Such a life made the Norsemen adventurous, hardy, warlike, independent, and quick of action, while the Celts were by nature more slothful and fond of peaceful social gatherings, though of quicker intellect and wit. The Book of Hallowe'en When the usual hour of prayer arrived the myrmidons of the law sallied forth, and with leathern whips drove all slothful Moslems to their devotions. The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India—Volume I (of IV) He, upon whose careless head Never any load is laid, With an earthward eye doth oft Stoop and lounge too slothfully: Burdened heads are held aloft With a nobler dignity. Continental Monthly , Vol. 6, No. 1, July, 1864 Devoted to Literature and National Policy. In the nineteenth he, in profound humility, applies to himself, with tears, whatever the prophet spoke against slothful mercenary pastors. The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints January, February, March You rebuked his slothful habits and urged him to activity. Eventide A Series of Tales and Poems We are all familiar with the parable of the slothful servant who buried his talent—all may profit by his example. Hidden Treasures Or, Why Some Succeed While Others Fail Then again, if a man be diligent in business, we may expect him to become rich; but if he be slothful, he has nothing to look for but poverty. The Mysteries of All Nations Rise and Progress of Superstition, Laws Against and Trials of Witches, Ancient and Modern Delusions Together With Strange Customs, Fables, and Tales Fruit enough metaphorical: for the scientific man or artist who cannot make hay while such a sun shines from April to November must be a slothful laborer indeed. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 80, June, 1864 One whose soul is slothful, sensual, and earthly, deserves not to bear the name of a Christian, much less of a minister of the gospel. The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints January, February, March The people may be too averse to change, too slothful in their own business, unjust to a minority or a majority. Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry But the Apache Yumas, their mountain blood tainted by the cross with the slothful bands of the arid, desert flats of the lower Colorado, had won a bad name from the start, and deserved it. An Apache Princess A Tale of the Indian Frontier I rouse and goad the slothful, apt to nod, I stir and urge the laggards with my rod: My praise is not of men, yet I praise God. Poems The prevalent slothful and slavish surrender of the grand privileges and duties of individual thought, independent personal conviction and action in religious matters, is at once astonishing, pernicious, and disgraceful. The Destiny of the Soul A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life This slothful monk began to correct his fault upon the charitable admonition of Pompeian, his superior; but, after three days, relapsed into his former sloth. The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints January, February, March Moreover, there is a strong temptation for the governing people to become as much slothful and sluggards as the weakest of absolute kings. Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry A man might grow soft muscled literally and figuratively in slothful carelessness, or he might grow hard until he became a machine. The Short Cut Abercrombie, who led us at Ticonderoga, was fat, old and slothful, and now Wolfe, who leads the new force is young, sickly and fretful. The Sun Of Quebec A Story of a Great Crisis The church long commended the slothful who let things drift, and called their laziness resignation. Levels of Living Essays on Everyday Ideals He was an excellent man of affairs, never "slothful in business," but with great practical ability. Hugh Memoirs of a Brother They thought me slothful, incurious, destitute of knowledge and of all thirst of knowledge, insolent, and profligate. Arthur Mervyn Or, Memoirs of the Year 1793 This Moderation which, since the Sin of Sultan Adam, has ceased to be a Virtue, so enervated their Courage, that they became slothful and timorous. The Amours of Zeokinizul, King of the Kofirans Translated from the Arabic of the famous Traveller Krinelbol He who shirks in whole or in part is slothful. Explanation of Catholic Morals A Concise, Reasoned, and Popular Exposition of Catholic Morals For the first time in his life slothful reason arose and fought with desire. Roads from Rome Hoping that he may not be slothful, but an active and diligent servant of his Lord, will you not give your earnest soul and busy hands to the work which you find to do? Mrs Whittelsey's Magazine for Mothers and Daughters Volume 3 And the more slothful of them excused themselves in the words of the Bible, saying, "I have a wife, and therefore could not come so quickly." The Tales Of The Heptameron, Vol. IV. (of V.) Again, that old father Augustine denieth it p. 119to be lawful for a monk to spend his time slothfully and idly, and, under a pretended and counterfeit holiness, to live all upon others. The Apology of the Church of England The child of slothful ease, and sensual heat— By sweet delirious thoughts, in dark retreat, Mature in mischief grown—he springs away, A wingèd god, and thousands own his sway. The Sonnets, Triumphs, and Other Poems of Petrarch I thanked M. Bartsch heartily and unfeignedly for his extreme civility and kindness, and told him that he should not find me either slothful or ungrateful. A Bibliographical, Antiquarian and Picturesque Tour in France and Germany, Volume Three Nursemaids will slothfully scare small children into silence by threats of the awful presence of a bogey god. Religious Education in the Family The good father vowed that if she continued to be so slothful, he would indeed give her some of it, and her mother earnestly begged him to do so. The Tales Of The Heptameron, Vol. IV. (of V.) Voluptuous 96always and slothful, subtle at times no doubt and sweet beyond measure, full of heavy beauty and warm, slow grace, her features bear no sign of possible love or conscience. Great Pictures, As Seen and Described by Famous Writers Many successful wooers of the muse have been, fortunately for themselves, the heirs of poverty, and became successful only to yield themselves to fat and slothful ease. The Great German Composers Persia, Beloochistan, Afghanistan, and even southern Russia had been rifled of their beauties to adorn the zenanas of the slothful Hindu princes. The Adventures of Kathlyn O, slothful England and careless countrymen! look but on these fellows that we call the plump Hollanders! Andrew Marvell There can be no doubt," said the Grey Friar, "that it is a very evil habit in young girls to be slothful. The Tales Of The Heptameron, Vol. IV. (of V.) In slow and mellow fashion he was ripening into slothful and comfortable atrophy. Destiny The slothful cannot be restrained in their hurry forward, the leaders, shouting with tears, examples of diligence, a pair in the rear crying out instances of sloth. Dante: "The Central Man of All the World" A Course of Lectures Delivered Before the Student Body of the New York State College for Teachers, Albany, 1919, 1920 Hood, we know from his letters, was "of that frame and texture that I cannot be indifferent,"—"full of anxiety, impatience, and apprehension,"—when service seemed to him slothfully done. The Life of Nelson, Volume 1 The Embodiment of the Sea Power of Great Britain Brethren beloved, do not be content with a slothful, dreamy, uncertain struggle. Sermons Preached at Brighton Third Series In this island are to be found very good gold mines, but they are not properly worked, for the Indians are all Pintados, and are very slothful. The Philippine Islands, 1493-1803 — Volume 05 of 55 1582-1583 Explorations by Early Navigators, Descriptions of the Islands and Their Peoples, Their History and Records of the Catholic Missions, as Related in Contemporaneous Books and Manuscripts, Showing the Political, Economic, Commercial and Religious Conditions of Those Islands from Their Earliest Relations with European Nations to the Beginning of the Nineteenth Century The Boer was quick in noting when the proper time arrived for retreat, and he was not slothful in acting upon his observations. With the Boer Forces At the end of the present conference Dante falls into slumber, from which he is aroused by the racing activity of the souls of the slothful, shouting instances of zeal and energy. Dante: "The Central Man of All the World" A Course of Lectures Delivered Before the Student Body of the New York State College for Teachers, Albany, 1919, 1920 "Paul pictures to us the successful man when he uses these words, 'Not slothful in business, fervent in spirit; serving the Lord.'" Crayon and Character: Truth Made Clear Through Eye and Ear Or, Ten-Minute Talks with Colored Chalks I have been a slothful servant in thy family, an idle laborer in thy vineyard, 'an unfruitful branch,' a poor dwarfish member in thy body. The Power of Faith Exemplified In The Life And Writings Of The Late Mrs. Isabella Graham. Massage in some form has long been in use in the East, and is well known as the lommi-lommi of the slothful inhabitants of the Sandwich Islands. Fat and Blood An Essay on the Treatment of Certain Forms of Neurasthenia and Hysteria Low dost thou lie amid the languid ooze, Because thy slothful spirit doth refuse The bliss of battle and the strain of strife. The Poems of Henry Van Dyke Dante's slothful souls are startlingly swift in their action. Dante: "The Central Man of All the World" A Course of Lectures Delivered Before the Student Body of the New York State College for Teachers, Albany, 1919, 1920 Of the industrious, busy hand, Solomon says, 'The hand of the diligent shall bear rule, but the slothful shall be under tribute.' Crayon and Character: Truth Made Clear Through Eye and Ear Or, Ten-Minute Talks with Colored Chalks Be 'not slothful in business, fervent in spirit, serving the Lord.' The Power of Faith Exemplified In The Life And Writings Of The Late Mrs. Isabella Graham. Pleasure's your portion, and your slothful ease: When man's at leisure, study how to please, Soften his angry hours with servile care, And, when he calls, the ready feast prepare. The works of John Dryden, now first collected in eighteen volumes. Volume 05 Their greed was insatiable, although they were lazy and slothful; and for that reason they practice unheard-of usury. The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 21 of 55 1624 Explorations by early navigators, descriptions of the islands and their peoples, their history and records of the catholic missions, as related in contemporaneous books and manuscripts, showing the political, economic, commercial and religious conditions of those islands from their earliest relations with European nations to the close of the nineteenth century. Whence one could clearly see that the Virgin, our Lady, was not slothful on that occasion. The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 19 of 55 1620-1621 Explorations by early navigators, descriptions of the islands and their peoples, their history and records of the catholic missions, as related in contemporaneous books and manuscripts, showing the political, economic, commercial and religious conditions of those islands from their earliest relations with European nations to the close of the nineteenth century. The paralysis of a will that is slothful to good infests and hinders us all. Expositions of Holy Scripture Ezekiel, Daniel, and the Minor Prophets. St Matthew Chapters I to VIII The two Burghes, who were grossly ignorant, slothful, perverse, and slovenly, got prizes for the regular attendance, into which they were daily dragooned by their father. Ishmael Or, In the Depths Commencing their labors on a principle of sloth, they have the common fortune of slothful men. The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 03 (of 12) What a boon that that fat, slothful, ignorant monk no longer shares this room! The Secret Chamber at Chad This scrutiny is a laborious one; but Truth is the prize of effort in the search therefor, it is not an unearned gift to the slothful and the careless. The Basis of Morality Opportunities of service, slothfully or faintheartedly neglected, are often withdrawn. Expositions of Holy Scripture Ezekiel, Daniel, and the Minor Prophets. St Matthew Chapters I to VIII Neither of us, for each other's sake, can have any more cheap thrills, slothful moments, thoughts without courage. Captivity He should, without being slothful subsist on such water as he gets, and air, and all forest products. The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 4 Books 13, 14, 15, 16, 17 and 18 Among these, the man who is not slothful, who injures no one and who is endowed with charity and other virtues, goes to heaven, after leaving this world of men. The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 1 Books 1, 2 and 3 At day break I hastened to the woods; the hours past on while I indulged in wild dreams that gave wings to the slothful steps of time, and beguiled my eager impatience. Mathilda But it is better to die sword in hand than in slothful ease. Young Folks Treasury, Volume 2 (of 12) Their bodies are robust, and they are much given to war, but to all other employment they are slothful. The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 16 of 55 1609 Explorations by Early Navigators, Descriptions of the Islands and Their Peoples, Their History and Records of the Catholic Missions, as Related in Contemporaneous Books and Manuscripts, Showing the Political, Economic, Commercial and Religious Conditions of Those Islands from Their Earliest Relations with European Nations to the Close of the Nineteenth Century It cannot be the state of one sanctified throughout; of one raised above temptation, either to stray into devious paths, or be slothful in the service of his God. Sermons on Various Important Subjects And there are in particular some of these who, although inert and slothful, are eager to seem rather than to be wise. Readings in the History of Education Mediaeval Universities Gorged with what it had eaten, the dusty serpent was now slothful and full of sleep. The Girl at the Halfway House A Story of the Plains In diligence not slothful; fervent in spirit; serving the Lord. Leaves of Life For Daily Inspiration Yet be not slothful, nor fierce, nor sleepy, nor niggardly, nor feckless nor envious, for all these are hateful before God and men. The High Deeds of Finn and other Bardic Romances of Ancient Ireland "And Mark Anthony has nothing but a fat, poverty-stricken, slothful mission priest," Father Rowley gurgled. The Altar Steps Some find it best to name a certain hour, but then, if they are not called punctually, they feel the resolution broken, and they very likely lie on slothfully. Stray Thoughts for Girls Some were strong, but knew not how to apply their strength; others were strong but slothful. The Girl at the Halfway House A Story of the Plains "The slothful man says, There is a lion without, I shall be slain in the streets." Ten Great Religions An Essay in Comparative Theology He was a large man, broad-shouldered and heavy-muscled; and his face was lazy, phlegmatic, slothful, withal kindly, yet without passion, and quite soulless—a dim soul, unmalicious, unmoral, bovine, and stubborn. The Road Other nations were depicted as slothful, selfish, decadent; and the decline in the prestige of Great Britain, France, and Russia to some extent justified these pretensions. The Development of the European Nations, 1870-1914 (5th ed.) It is not a melancholy kind of sitting still, and slothful waiting, that speaks men enlivened by the Spirit and power of God. Christian Mysticism Minstrels were a slothful lot, averse to the chill of early morning. The Truce of God They are slothful who lie in bed late in the morning and neglect their duty. Baltimore Catechism, No. 4 An Explanation of the Baltimore Catechism of Christian Doctrine The General had little hope of them, and informed Sir Thomas Robinson that "their slothful and languid disposition renders them very unfit for military service,"—a point on which he lived to change his mind. Montcalm and Wolfe Hark how the people talk of such conduct as the slothful negligent trader discovers in his way. The Complete English Tradesman (1839 ed.) Our middle class, as Bismarck says, has 'gone to fat,' and is too slothful to look for the miseries of others. A Dream of the North Sea Such are the results for nations, when they betray to the whole world an aristocracy bankrupt of honour, emasculated, and slothful. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 54, No. 333, July 1843 The day is short, the labor great, and the workman slothful. Hebraic Literature; Translations from the Talmud, Midrashim and Kabbala Oh to love so, be so loved, yet so mistaken What had I on earth to do With the slothful, with the mawkish, the unmanly? The Poetry Of Robert Browning The slothful fellow would do nothing but sit in the chimney-corner, and eat as much at a time as would serve four or five ordinary men. More English Fairy Tales But if you have been unfaithful as stewards, and have made your household unproductive for God, then you shall hear from his lips the dreadful denunciation, "Thou wicked and slothful servant!" The Christian Home It is the baneful narcotic which has soothed the selfish and the slothful from the beginning. Prose Fancies (Second Series) "Be not slothful, but imitators of them who through faith and patience inherit the promises," Heb. vi. The Divine Right of Church Government by Sundry Ministers Of Christ Within The City Of London Again, the meanness of my estate doth somewhat move me; for though I cannot accuse myself that I am either prodigal or slothful, yet my health is not to spend, nor my course to get. Bacon Our train, being the last one up, stopped at every station, and crawled slothfully in the intervals, so that it was past eleven o'clock when we reached Liverpool Street. John Thorndyke's Cases related by Christopher Jervis and edited by R. Austin Freeman He that is slothful is loath to set about the work he should follow; so is he that is slothful for heaven. The Heavenly Footman Toil we not here? and shall we be forever slothful elsewhere? Mardi: and A Voyage Thither, Vol. II But when it gets down to private people volunteerin' for dooty as marshals, folks in the Southwest goes some slothful to work. Wolfville Nights Instead of the slothful luxury of the Seraglio, the heirs of royalty were educated in the council and the field. Sea-Wolves of the Mediterranean See you do not be slothful, but get up from this bed, and let us be off to the fields in our shepherd's clothing, as we had agreed. The Children's Hour, v 5. Stories From Seven Old Favorites He that is slothful doeth his work by the halves: and so it is with him that is slothful for heaven. The Heavenly Footman In good truth, it is a wearied man, at least a dreadfully slothful and slumberous man, eager for sleep in any quantity, that now addresses you! The Correspondence of Thomas Carlyle and Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1834-1872, Vol II. From this it is clearly evident how slothful these people are. The Philippine Islands, 1493-1803 — Volume 03 of 55 1569-1576 Explorations by Early Navigators, Descriptions of the Islands and Their Peoples, Their History and Records of the Catholic Missions, as Related in Contemporaneous Books and Manuscripts, Showing the Political, Economic, Commercial and Religious Conditions of Those Islands from Their Earliest Relations with European Nations to the Beginning of the Nineteenth Century All the old state will come back again if we are slothful and negligent. Expositions of Holy Scripture: Romans Corinthians (To II Corinthians, Chap. V) Labour not a devil, even when encased in Mammonism: The unredeemed ugliness, a slothful People. Past and Present Friends, Solomon saith, that "the desire of the slothful killeth him;" and if so, what will slothfulness itself do to those that entertain it? The Heavenly Footman And how could it be saved if nothing could rouse the King from his slothful indifference? A Heroine of France Students have been made to study history or algebra by offering prizes to the diligent and by threatening the slothful with punishment. A Librarian's Open Shelf ‘Not slothful in business’ suggests, by reason of our modern restriction of that word ‘business’ to a man's daily occupation, a much more limited range to this exhortation than the Apostle meant to give it. Expositions of Holy Scripture: Romans Corinthians (To II Corinthians, Chap. V) Associated words: bray, asinine, asininity. do-nothing, a. inactive, idle, lazy, fabian, slothful. doodlesack, n. bagpipe. doom, n. judicial sentence, judgment; destiny, death. door, n. entrance, portal, gate; postern; porch, portico. Putnam's Word Book He that is slothful, is one that is willing to make delays: so is he that is slothful for heaven. The Heavenly Footman I would not return to those days of slothful idleness, not for all the gold of the King's treasury. In the Days of Chivalry If the time becomes slothful and heavy he knows how to arouse it … he can make every word he speaks draw blood. Prefaces and Prologues to Famous Books with Introductions, Notes and Illustrations And what Paul says is just this—‘In regard to your earnestness in all directions, see that you are not slothful.’ Expositions of Holy Scripture: Romans Corinthians (To II Corinthians, Chap. V) And was he a product of these soft days, the rushing whirlwinds of Heaven stilled, the land drowsy with the humid heat of a slothful noonday? Broken to the Plow They that are slothful do usually lose the season in which things are to be done: and thus it is also with them that are slothful for heaven; they miss the seasons of grace. The Heavenly Footman Dry snow began to rustle slothfully about their feet. Pardners Hence, too, among the weak, whimsies, affectation, rude disregard of proprieties, slothful neglect of common duties, surrender to the claims of natural appetite, self-indulgence, self-absorption, and self-idolatry. Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli, Volume II ‘Not slothful in business; fervent in spirit; serving the Lord.’ Expositions of Holy Scripture: Romans Corinthians (To II Corinthians, Chap. V) Popular adages and proverbs are common modes of expressing such deep-lying analogies: for example, "Where there is smoke there is fire"; "The slothful man saith, There is a lion in the way." The Making of Arguments They that are slothful have seldom, or never, good fruit; so also it will be with the soul-sluggard. The Heavenly Footman The sincere publican has proceeded on foot; the slothful Pharisee is mounted and gone asleep. The Persian Literature, Comprising The Shah Nameh, The Rubaiyat, The Divan, and The Gulistan, Volume 2 The slothful man loves his bed; the toper his drink, because it throws him into an exhilarative and exquisite mood; the gourmand makes his stomach his god; and the sensualist thinks his delights imperishable. International Weekly Miscellany of Literature, Art, and Science — Volume 1, No. 4, July 22, 1850 ‘Not slothful in business; fervent in spirit; serving the Lord.’—ROMANS xii. Expositions of Holy Scripture: Romans Corinthians (To II Corinthians, Chap. V) Again, the meanness of my estate does somewhat move me; for though I cannot excuse myself that I am either prodigal or slothful, yet my health is not to spend, nor my course to get. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 3 They that are slothful, are chid for the same: so also will Christ deal with those that are not active for him. The Heavenly Footman We lack in persistence, we resent disparity in the distribution of talents, we blink at responsibility, and are slothful and trifling. A Backward Glance at Eighty Recollections & comment A man should hasten towards the good, and should keep his thought away from evil; if a man does what is good slothfully, his mind delights in evil. Sacred Books of the East Their slothful carelessness as to the discipline of the Christian life, and their consequent feebleness of grasp of the Christian verities, made them loose-braced and weak in all respects, and incapacitated them for vigorous warfare. Expositions of Holy Scripture: Romans Corinthians (To II Corinthians, Chap. V) How nobly Browning set this forth in his Epilogue: What had I on earth to do With the slothful, with the mawkish, the unmanly? Quit Your Worrying! Your souls are worth a thousand worlds; and will ye be slothful? The Heavenly Footman At a distance these columns of men, clad in olive drab, made one think of brown caterpillars moving slothfully along. Uncle Sam's Boys with Pershing's Troops Dick Prescott at Grips with the Boche Helen looked delicious in the yard, gazing pensively at the slothful rhododendron while James Ollerenshaw opened his door. Helen with the High Hand (2nd ed.) God's ‘Yea’ is answered by our faltering ‘Amen’; God's truth is hesitatingly accepted; God's love is partially returned; God's work is slothfully and negligently done. Expositions of Holy Scripture: Romans Corinthians (To II Corinthians, Chap. V) A. To show that virtuous men should not be slothful, but diligent and always in action. The Works of Aristotle the Famous Philosopher Containing his Complete Masterpiece and Family Physician; his Experienced Midwife, his Book of Problems and his Remarks on Physiognomy The day of death and judgment is at the door; and will ye be slothful? The Heavenly Footman The slothful man says, There is a lion in the path. The Queen of the Air Being a Study of the Greek Myths of Cloud and Storm There are no doubt some who cry out: "But I am not at all slothful; I am busy from morning to night; of whatever else I may be guilty, it is not of sloth!" Our Lady Saint Mary The diligent lived well and comfortably and the slothful lived hard and beggarly; and so I believe, generally speaking, it is all over the world. The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe (1808) Oh, what a witness will that Book be against the slothful, the wilfully ignorant and unbelieving! Parish Papers Also, your neighbors are diligent for things that will perish; and will you be slothful for things that will endure for ever? The Heavenly Footman The slothful man says, I shall be slain, and the unslothful, IT shall be. The Queen of the Air Being a Study of the Greek Myths of Cloud and Storm My friend, busy people are quite often the most slothful people that there are. Our Lady Saint Mary If there were any who entertained such a feeing, that he would rather they should then confess it to him, than, complaining afterwards, prove themselves slothful and useless soldiers to the state. The History of Rome, Books 27 to 36 Was he cruel and covetous, slothful and indifferent, uncharitable and censorious; or loving, zealous, and self-denying, the author of peace and lover of concord, a friend and brother? Parish Papers Arise, man! be slothful no longer: set foot, and heart, and all, into the way of God, and run. The Heavenly Footman The sea had risen, but noiselessly, creeping up and up towards her, no line of white marking the edge of its slothful oncoming. Deadham Hard The slothful admiral paid for it with his life, but the harm was done. Hero Tales of the Far North The dark leaden clouds dim the light of the sun, And the dull dreary hours drone slothfully on, Euroclydon forges the cold biting sleet, And the snow-drifts he piles at the traveler’s feet. The Poets and Poetry of Cecil County, Maryland But though he was quiet, he was not slothful. Masters of Space Morse, Thompson, Bell, Marconi, Carty The broad space of the Nevski was swallowed up by a vast crowd, very quiet, very amiable, moving easily, almost slothfully, in a slowly stirring stream. The Secret City When kings grow stubborn, slothful, or unwise, Each private man for public good should rise. The works of John Dryden, now first collected in eighteen volumes. Volume 02 It is a virile virtue in the midst of the calculating and slothful spirit which too ofter veils itself under the pretence or religion. Annie Besant An Autobiography And he reproved the senate, saying for one thing that they were slothful, did not understand readily, and did not give their votes separately. Dio's Rome, Volume 6 An Historical Narrative Originally Composed in Greek During The Reigns of Septimius Severus, Geta and Caracalla, Macrinus, Elagabalus And Alexander Severus But if thou dost not feel this cry, take heed that thou be not slothful and secure; pray constantly, for thou art in an evil state. The World's Great Sermons, Volume 01 Basil to Calvin Then, like Logan, he sank under the curse of drunkenness,—often hardly less dangerous to the white borderer than to his red enemy,—and passed the remainder of his days in ignoble and slothful retirement. The Winning of the West, Volume 1 From the Alleghanies to the Mississippi, 1769-1776 What a poor slothful soul I have been, when heaven shines so bright above me. Religion in Earnest A Memorial of Mrs. Mary Lyth, of York If, dead to these calls, you already languish in slothful inaction, what will be able to quicken the more sluggish current of advancing years? The Illustrated London Reading Book I did not respect my sorrow, had no consideration for the weakness and helplessness of Davis, got corrupted, slothful, and finally sent off that fatal letter. Without Dogma Man was not created for a sedentary or slothful life; but all his organs and attributes are calculated for an existence of activity and industry. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 14, No. 392, October 3, 1829 Dropt manna, and could make the worse appear The better reason, to perplex and dash Maturest counsels; for his thoughts were low To vice industrious, but to nobler deeds Timorous and slothful. Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama, Vol. 1 A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook Art, profanely veiling its voluptuous nakedness with the attributes of religion, disguises folly so subtly that it seems like virtue in the slothful eyes of those who neglect continually to watch and pray. The Irrational Knot Being the Second Novel of His Nonage These are naturally exceeding slothful, but, upon the Husband's exerting his Authority, will live upon hard Fare, and do every thing to please him. The Spectator, Volume 2. Thus a laborer may be dirty, drunken, untruthful, slothful, untrustworthy in every way without exhausting the indulgence of the country house. Treatise on Parents and Children The slothful effeminacy of the former exposed them to the contempt, the sullen ferociousness of the latter excited the aversion, of the conquerors. History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 1 Tut, tut, Mr. Philander; this is no time to indulge in slothful ease. Tarzan of the Apes His life is neither tost in boisterous, seas, Or the vexatious world, or lost in slothful ease; Please and full blest he lives when he his God can please. The Compleat Angler To know I wear away life's glorious spring In such effeminate and slothful leisure Is to my troubled heart a constant sting, And takes away the taste of every pleasure. Orlando Furioso The bourgeoisie has disclosed how it came to pass that the brutal display of vigour in the Middle Ages, which Reactionists so much admire, found its fitting complement in the most slothful indolence. The Communist Manifesto The diligent lived well and comfortably, and the slothful hard and beggarly; and so, I believe, generally speaking, it is all over the world. The Further Adventures of Robinson Crusoe As a matter of fact, nothing could be more slothful or slow, more given up to a life of ease and degeneracy, than the "reef-building polypifer"—to give him his scientific name. The Blue Lagoon: a romance In youth they grow slothful in body and weak in mind. Good Stories for Holidays Then gladly one forsook his task undone And with the Tempter went his slothful way, The other toiled until the setting sun With stealing shadows blurred the dusty day. In Flanders Fields and Other Poems An unclean person is universally a slothful one, one who sits by a stove, whom the sun shines on prostrate, who reposes without being fatigued. Walden I rage in my household when the whim takes me, and I am hot-headed, and masterful, and slothful, and should belike be untrue if there were any force to drive me thereto. The Well at the World's End: a tale Sir 22:1 A slothful man is compared to a filthy stone, and every one will hiss him out to his disgrace. Deuterocanonical Books of the Bible Apocrypha Their general character and habits were those of other Indian tribes, but they were reputed somewhat cowardly and slothful. France and England in North America; a Series of Historical Narratives — Part 3 It was cowardly and slothful to doubt of life so long as a spark of life and power glowed in my veins. The Indian Lily and Other Stories There content had blessed him again; content not slothful but inciting; a content that embraced his own beloved West, fashioning first in fancy and then by deed, its own proud future. The Spenders A Tale of the Third Generation I hardly knew what to write, but I fixed upon a passage of Scripture, 'Not slothful in business, fervent in spirit, serving the Lord.' Life in London or, the Pitfalls of a Great City Sir 22:2 A slothful man is compared to the filth of a dunghill: every man that takes it up will shake his hand. Deuterocanonical Books of the Bible Apocrypha Will they not necessarily be slothful, if you are silent and sleep? An Explanation of Luther's Small Catechism Here he passed a fruitless, enervating life, slothful, restless and humiliating; at home there awaited him light, useful work, dreamless sleep, and the tonic sense of being the master. The Indian Lily and Other Stories But on this morning there is no slothful skulking in the arms of Morpheus. Camps, Quarters, and Casual Places And that maketh thee so slothful and so lither, I dare say he was six hours coming hither, When I sent him to make provision afore, Not passing a mile hence or very little more. A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 2 There were but three elephants, two camels, and a most meagre display of those alluring cages made to afford even the careless eye a sudden, quickening glimpse of restless, tawny form, or slothful hulk within. Meadow Grass Tales of New England Life "Their slothful loves and dainty sympathies" is an exquisite line, but you knew that when you wrote 'em, and I trifle in pointing such out. The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 5 The Letters of Charles and Mary Lamb, 1796-1820 To judge rashly is proper to slothful souls, which, because they never busy themselves with their own concerns, have leisure to devote their energies to finding fault with others. The Spirit of St. Francis de Sales Now, however, all such feelings are cowed before him: your slothful apathy has taken away their only rallying point; and it is this apathy that I bid you put off to-day. The Public Orations of Demosthenes, volume 1 Superstition, in fact, takes a pride in rendering man slothful, in moulding him to credulity, in making him pusillanimous. The System of Nature, Volume 1 Leisure is found only in the dictionary of the slothful. A Fleece of Gold; Five Lessons from the Fable of Jason and the Golden Fleece Wherefore I exhort fault-finders to bridle their tongue, and not let it rashly loose, but rather consider that the Lord has often devised such things, that he might profit those who were too slothful. The Hermits "But," you say, "if I, as it were, dally with the temptation, either from inadvertence or torpor, or slothful unwillingness to reject and repel it, is not that in a way taking pleasure in it?" The Spirit of St. Francis de Sales But lazy and slothful ministers were fortunately rare in New England. Sabbath in Puritan New England The Hollander is laborious and industrious in Europe; he becomes more languid and slothful in India. An Essay on the History of Civil Society, Eighth Edition I now come to a curious episode—the most curious, I think, that had yet accented my slothful, valueless, heedless career. Roughing It, Part 4. Not slothful in business; fervent in spirit; serving the Lord.—ROM. xii. Daily Strength for Daily Needs Why, then, am I so slothful and lax in the quest after my wandering sheep? The Spirit of St. Francis de Sales The two youngsters displayed traits almost absolutely opposite; the elder, Manuel, was of a frivolous, slothful, indolent disposition, and would neither study nor go to school. The Quest The slothful even—those who seem impelled to nothing—refrain from effort because they put their faith in idleness as the one thing above all others desirable. The Elements of Character By their incessant operations, properties small and great would be continually passing from the slothful and the old-fashioned to the enterprising and modern- educated. Speculations from Political Economy May 29 Be not slothful, but followers of them who through faith and patience inherit the promises.—HEB. vi. Daily Strength for Daily Needs It is right to take compassion upon sinners, but it must be with the intention of extricating them from the mire, not of slothfully leaving them to rot and perish in it. The Spirit of St. Francis de Sales The empire slothfully cast the whole burden of the war upon Austria. Germany from the Earliest Period Volume 4 Those who labor steadfastly, with no end in view but the acquisition of worldly, perishable advantages, answer it fearfully; but theirs is not a more desperate reply than comes from the idler and the slothful. The Elements of Character If the time becomes slothful and heavy, he knows how to arouse it: he can make every word he speaks draw blood. Poems By Walt Whitman But his lord answered him, 'You wicked and slothful servant. The World English Bible (WEB): Matthew And do not be ashamed of your function, nor slothful nor cowardly in its discharge. Expositions of Holy Scripture St. Luke The slothful bishops and abbots of the empire were, on the other hand, treated with the utmost respect by the Catholic soldiery. Germany from the Earliest Period Volume 4 During the period of their dominion in England, the Anglo-Saxons, so far from showing themselves an enterprising people were notoriously weak, slothful, and degenerate, overrun by the Danes, and soon permanently subjected by the Normans. Handbook of Universal Literature From the Best and Latest Authorities The hawk is on the wing; the murderous mink and weasel never cease their crimes; the bird seeks the slothful worm and jumping insect; the fox, cat, and wolf forever quest for food. Hunting with the Bow and Arrow Belial, who though timorous and slothful, was a persuasive orator, denounced Moloch's plan. National Epics The slothful servant, too, was under this compulsion of absolute honesty. Expositions of Holy Scripture St. Luke Only laziness sometimes dresses itself in the garb and speaks with the tongue of faith, and pretends to be truthful when it is only slothful. Expositions of Holy Scripture St. John Chapters I to XIV Ignorance of the fulness of the gift, and slothful timidity in daring everything in the effort to make it ours, explain a great deal of the present condition of Christian people. Expositions of Holy Scripture Deuteronomy, Joshua, Judges, Ruth, and First Book of Samuel, Second Samuel, First Kings, and Second Kings chapters I to VII But, by the soul of Thomas of Longueville, you shall not find Patrick Charteris slothful in a matter of this importance. The Fair Maid of Perth Or, St. Valentine's Day Henry declared to Parliament that they deserved to be abolished, because of the "slothful and ungodly lives" led by the inmates. Early European History To commemorate the dead with slothful wailings, is not the principal office of friends: they are to remember his dying wishes, to fulfil his last desires. The Reign of Tiberius, Out of the First Six Annals of Tacitus; With His Account of Germany, and Life of Agricola
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