Adjective : He was annoyed by their dragging way of walking and talking. ,dragging ropes. From Dictionary.com.
Mackie wasn't draggingly heavy, but we were walking on ice. From Wordnik.com. [Longshot]
Instead of landing cleanly upon the other, he came down draggingly across the Boss 'shoulders. From Wordnik.com. [Ralestone Luck] Reference
“The harpoon,” said Ahab, half way rising, and draggingly leaning on one bended arm — “is it safe?”. From Wordnik.com. [Moby Dick; or the Whale] Reference
They walked out past a large parabolic dune and it was so draggingly hot out here that the air seemed a form of physical hindrance. From Wordnik.com. [Underworld] Reference
In this wise he came draggingly at last into the central plaza, and sat down on a drum of a fallen stone pillar to catch his breath. From Wordnik.com. [Anywhen]
He glanced at it absently, and entered the hall slowly, draggingly, and was amazed to find Lord Turfleigh, in overcoat and hat, standing beside a pile of luggage. From Wordnik.com. [Nell, of Shorne Mills or, One Heart's Burden] Reference
Here it was warm, silent, draggingly monotonous; a few yards away across a band of blue shallow water, the cool shady mystery of tree-fringed beach and woodland-dotted meadow beckoned her. From Wordnik.com. [The Coming of Conan The Cimmerian]
He caught the guttural of a half inaudible voice, and the wash of water and clink of a dish, showing that the belated work of the reception was going draggingly on, but it was all far away and invisible. From Wordnik.com. [The Fortieth Door] Reference
We've decided to work in those delicious windows between system crashes and "kernel panics," and managed to turn the beginning of the movie from "draggingly oblique" into "only-slightly-confusingly funny.". From Wordnik.com. [11/20/02 A short respite of] Reference
She leaned draggingly upon his arm as they walked. From Wordnik.com. [The Awakening and Selected Short Stories] Reference
I walked draggingly, as one walks with fetters upon the feet. From Wordnik.com. [Slippy McGee, Sometimes Known as the Butterfly Man] Reference
It was like lying curled in the hollow of a drum, a drum beaten draggingly and slow. From Wordnik.com. [The Long Roll] Reference
Woodyard came into the room draggingly, nodded to Cairy, and drew a chair up to the fire. From Wordnik.com. [Together] Reference
Instead of landing cleanly upon the other, he came down draggingly across the Boss's shoulders. From Wordnik.com. [Ralestone Luck]
"The harpoon," said Ahab, half way rising, and draggingly leaning on one bended arm -- "is it safe?". From Wordnik.com. [Moby Dick, or, the whale] Reference
"The harpoon," said Ahab, half way rising, and draggingly leaning on one bended arm -- "is it safe!". From Wordnik.com. [Great Sea Stories] Reference
'The harpoon, 'said Ahab, half way rising, and draggingly leaning on one bended arm --' is it safe? '. From Wordnik.com. [Moby-Dick, or, The Whale] Reference
And Khipil went in that state described by the poet, when we go draggingly, with remonstrating members. From Wordnik.com. [The Shaving of Shagpat; an Arabian entertainment — Complete] Reference
Friday morning, July 19th, she struck, -- first draggingly, then hard and harder, -- on Fire Island beach. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli, Volume II] Reference
But Penny did not appear, and the afternoon passed draggingly for the candidate for the district attorneyship. From Wordnik.com. [The Sturdy Oak A composite Novel of American Politics by fourteen American authors] Reference
Page view page image: that hardened indifference which use gives, her heart sunk, and her feet moved draggingly. From Wordnik.com. [Tales of City Life] Reference
Slowly and draggingly she began to unfasten her clothes -- they fell off her, and lay like a pool round her feet. From Wordnik.com. [Joanna Godden] Reference
Seeing this he stooped again and this time grasped it beneath the arms; then slowly, draggingly, with halting step, began to move backward. From Wordnik.com. [At Fault] Reference
These holes became to our tired brains not depressions but elevations: hummocks over which we stepped, raising our feet painfully and draggingly. From Wordnik.com. [The Worst Journey in the World Antarctic 1910-1913] Reference
She admired the facility of her own response for not more than a minute, for, giving her a kind, blindish smile, Marion walked draggingly across the hearthrug and took up her position at the disengaged side of the fireplace and rested her elbow on the mantelpiece, even as Richard was doing at its other end. From Wordnik.com. [The Judge] Reference
| purpled draggingly nobody's luckier spinning goddess oscilloscopes aimer |. From Wordnik.com. [Planet MySQL] Reference
About four o'clock, on Friday morning, July 19th, she struck, ” first draggingly, then hard and harder, ” on Fire Island beach. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli]
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