dawdle

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• Weyman’s cloak-and-rapier swashbuckler is long — over 400 pages in my edition — but its action never dawdles.

• Many Republicans, meanwhile, seem perfectly open to dawdling on the legislation despite the critical support it would provide to many people currently in need.

• I wandered on down the corridor to the elevator, to dawdle and not run into coarrivals.

• Why should they not dawdle at their labor sitting upon the fence in endless colloquy while the harvest rots upon the stalk?

• After a big fit of work, I can dawdle against any one; then I get another fit of work—it's like appetite.

• You've no idea how beastly it is to dawdle about in a crowd of people, and then at the end go back to another term of school.

• Tell your mother, and that poor dawdle there, your sister, that they 'd be thankful they'd have followed my advice.

• They watched him as he passed up the pathway, with a stride and a swing so different from his ordinary listless dawdle.