Haaashaastaak betook himself, a little slothfully, to Earth. From Wordnik.com. [The Weird of the White Wolf]
The dark mass of the sea, at flood, lay tranquil, slothfully lapping the shingle. From Wordnik.com. [Growing Pains] Reference
I slothfully roll back into the bowl of glutinous porridge and let it envelope me. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2008-04-01] Reference
There were long dinners at which the wealthy bourgeois lingered slothfully and wearily, prone to fall asleep like peasants. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
Being self-unemployed at the moment hey, the construction industry always magnifies economic trends, I lounged slothfully abed until 7:00 AM this morning. From Wordnik.com. [Hitting the reset button] Reference
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. From Wordnik.com. [Stray Thoughts for Girls] Reference
Makes one wonder if he even has knowledge of environmental law, given the slothfully-origined displays I see on this blog regarding the wider environmental arena. From Wordnik.com. [The Volokh Conspiracy » LawProfs for Sotomayor:] Reference
Here is a soul plunged in the lowest abysses of doubt; but it is a manly soul which seeks in doubt a trial for truth, and not a comfortable pillow on which slothfully to repose. From Wordnik.com. [The Heavenly Father Lectures on Modern Atheism] Reference
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. From Wordnik.com. [A Yacht Voyage to Norway, Denmark, and Sweden 2nd edition] Reference
Piled clouds riding like chariots of crimson fire obscure for long moments the bloated ablate of the sun as it sinks slothfully toward the heights of the city already lost within the thickening haze. From Wordnik.com. [beneath an opal moon]
Dry snow began to rustle slothfully about their feet. From Wordnik.com. [Pardners] Reference
Arabs slothfully try to arrange some vague Middle East conferences. From Wordnik.com. [CAMERA Snapshots] Reference
The empire slothfully cast the whole burden of the war upon Austria. From Wordnik.com. [Germany from the Earliest Period Volume 4] Reference
What do youths, and even grown-up and elder people, study most inertly and slothfully?. From Wordnik.com. [My Life in Christ, or Moments of Spiritual Serenity and Contemplation, of Reverent Feeling, of Earnest Self-Amendment, and of Peace in God] Reference
Drawing his long sword from his robust thigh, rising, he cut away the farther horse, nor did he act slothfully. From Wordnik.com. [The Iliad of Homer (1873)] Reference
People seem to be losing their nerve; reality shocks them, and they live slothfully in the shoddy palaces of Sham Ideals. From Wordnik.com. [The Hero] Reference
Then to see himself squatting slothfully on his mat, while he was believed to be engaged in slaying lions, filled him with shame. From Wordnik.com. [Tartarin De Tarascon] Reference
And how little, dry, fruitless, will be our service if we do our work indolently, slothfully, coldly, without any zeal and energy!. From Wordnik.com. [My Life in Christ, or Moments of Spiritual Serenity and Contemplation, of Reverent Feeling, of Earnest Self-Amendment, and of Peace in God] Reference
The solemn imperative of duty ceases to restrain or to impel in proportion as a man yields slothfully to the baser impulses of his nature. From Wordnik.com. [Expositions of Holy Scripture Second Kings Chapters VIII to End and Chronicles, Ezra, and Nehemiah. Esther, Job, Proverbs, and Ecclesiastes] Reference
When just a pup, she slothfully slept at the top of our stairs that had a rail just high enough to allow a small puppy to fit underneath it. From Wordnik.com. [MWLM Blog : Mom writers who have something to say...] Reference
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. From Wordnik.com. [Dhammapada, a collection of verses; being one of the canonical books of the Buddhists] Reference
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. From Wordnik.com. [John Thorndyke's Cases related by Christopher Jervis and edited by R. Austin Freeman] Reference
The relation between an impostor and one who carelessly and slothfully allows himself to be imposed upon, is the same as that between a thief and a receiver of stolen goods. From Wordnik.com. [A Journey in the Seaboard Slave States; With Remarks on Their Economy] Reference
/me sighs and hangs his head low, mumbling under his breath as he lumbers slothfully away …. From Wordnik.com. [World of SL] Reference
"Do you think that if the Dutchman were in your place now he would be resting slothfully on the grass?. From Wordnik.com. [Next Of Kin]
Time passed, slothfully cruel. From Wordnik.com. [Devil's Waltz]
Not too slothfully tarrying. From Wordnik.com. [Poems and Fragments] Reference
Beware lest you labour there so slothfully, that those who enter at the eleventh hour outstrip you both in the work and in reward. ". From Wordnik.com. [The Spirit of St. Francis de Sales] Reference
"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. From Wordnik.com. [The Spirit of St. Francis de Sales] Reference
Stoop and lounge too slothfully. From Wordnik.com. [Continental Monthly , Vol. 6, No. 1, July, 1864 Devoted to Literature and National Policy.] Reference
From him who slothfully no effort made. From Wordnik.com. ['A Comedy of Errors' in Seven Acts] Reference
But I’m slothfully late to the thread for tomfitzery…. From Wordnik.com. [Firedoglake » Word of the Day: PILECRAP] Reference
Not too slothfully tarrying. From Wordnik.com. [The Poems and Fragments of Catullus] Reference
Because, slothfully, by His neglect, or, wantonly, for His amusement, the. From Wordnik.com. [The History of Sir Richard Calmady A Romance] Reference
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