Lindsey rose with studied leisureliness and stood at the rail near Sears, ready. From Wordnik.com. [Terry A Tale of the Hill People] Reference
You say that science has disclosed to us the leisureliness of the evolving universe. From Wordnik.com. [Christianity and Progress] Reference
As he turned to face her with that assured leisureliness, she saw he was smiling a little. From Wordnik.com. [Web Of The Witch World]
It doesn't so much develop as slowly (the pace is of an almost forgotten leisureliness) darken. From Wordnik.com. [After the Dance; Love Story; Joe Turner's Come and Gone] Reference
With the same leisureliness, he removed his light top-coat and his hat and hung them in the closet. From Wordnik.com. [The Cab of the Sleeping Horse] Reference
The leisureliness of the Times's coverage is especially apparent when compared to that of its top competitor. From Wordnik.com. [Unfit to Print?] Reference
We were moving tranquilly, with a curious suggestion of homing leisureliness, through a soft, blue shimmering darkness. From Wordnik.com. [The Metal Monster] Reference
The other thing about Dumas that throws off readers accustomed to Bruckheimer-esque narratives is his sheer leisureliness. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2006-12-01] Reference
They stay in the sea awhile, revolving with relative leisureliness, until relieved, and then emerge, sometimes close to vessels. From Wordnik.com. [The Book of the Damned] Reference
He felt that it retained a Southern charm and leisureliness of life, along with something of the vigor and activity of the North. From Wordnik.com. [The Diary of H.L. Mencken] Reference
He took it with a leisureliness that argued sorrow. From Wordnik.com. [Bardelys the Magnificent; being an account of the strange wooing pursued by the Sieur Marcel de Saint-Pol, marquis of Bardelys...] Reference
A ray of interest illumined the leisureliness of the Hon. From Wordnik.com. [The Country House] Reference
White clouds floated with infinite leisureliness across the blue sky. From Wordnik.com. [Talents, Incorporated] Reference
Saltash took out his cigarette-case and opened it with great leisureliness. From Wordnik.com. [Charles Rex] Reference
The next lesson that I would suggest is the leisureliness of the deliverance. From Wordnik.com. [Expositions of Holy Scripture: the Acts] Reference
Æsthetic pleasure implies energy during rest and leisureliness during labour. From Wordnik.com. [Laurus Nobilis Chapters on Art and Life] Reference
How careful these busy men were to convey a certain impression of leisureliness!. From Wordnik.com. [Mushrooms on the Moor] Reference
Parker may have shared this impression, and it may account for his leisureliness. From Wordnik.com. [The Major Operations of the Navies in the War of American Independence] Reference
It was something else -- an ease of manner, a new leisureliness of glance, an air. From Wordnik.com. [One Basket] Reference
But it seemed American to sweep leisureliness away into space with a free gesture. From Wordnik.com. [The Shuttle] Reference
Looking up from below one is fascinated by the extreme leisureliness of its motion. From Wordnik.com. [The Book of the National Parks] Reference
In lazy leisureliness I bade him get me a cab, and followed him across the station. From Wordnik.com. [Rupert of Hentzau] Reference
Yet there she was, and moving with a leisureliness that must be described as effrontery!. From Wordnik.com. [The Old Wives' Tale] Reference
Springfield must have lost some of its old-world simplicity and leisureliness since then. From Wordnik.com. [Stories of Achievement, Volume IV (of 6) Authors and Journalists] Reference
Use Efficient Reminder and experience leisureliness in work and comfortableness in life now!. From Wordnik.com. [Softpedia - Windows - All] Reference
"Honest enough!" he drawled, with that incongruous coast-of-Maine tang to his leisureliness. From Wordnik.com. [The Thing from the Lake] Reference
"Just come across?" inquired Roden, putting together his papers with his usual leisureliness. From Wordnik.com. [Roden's Corner] Reference
He came up to her quite quietly, with that leisureliness of gait that she remembered so well. From Wordnik.com. [Rosa Mundi and Other Stories] Reference
So, with strange and majestic leisureliness, the escaping prisoner is bid to put on his shoes and gird himself. From Wordnik.com. [Expositions of Holy Scripture Deuteronomy, Joshua, Judges, Ruth, and First Book of Samuel, Second Samuel, First Kings, and Second Kings chapters I to VII] Reference
Affonso Henriques opened the window with a leisureliness which to the legate seemed to belong to the realm of nightmare. From Wordnik.com. [The Historical Nights' Entertainment Second Series] Reference
She had been chiefly intent upon her own accomplishment, and Gerard's playing was of a deceptive leisureliness and tranquillity. From Wordnik.com. [From the Car Behind] Reference
For as knowledge grows or alters continually, it clashes with mythology and theology, which change with geological leisureliness. From Wordnik.com. ["BANPC" via James Bow in Google Reader]
Too proud, however, to permit his emigration to savour of a flight, he carried the leisureliness of his going to dangerous extremes. From Wordnik.com. [The Trampling of the Lilies] Reference
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