CALKINS: And that's when Mr. Costin was kind of slouching or sliding down the wall?. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jan 9, 2002] Reference
Mr. Spragg drew himself up with a kind of slouching majesty. From Wordnik.com. [The Custom of the Country] Reference
On the reverse an officer appears with his shoelaces undone, shirt hanging out of his trousers and adopting a 'slouching' posture. From Wordnik.com. [Latest news, breaking news, current news, UK news, world news, celebrity news, politics news] Reference
See those hangdog-looking fellows slouching before us?. From Wordnik.com. [Sea-Dogs All! A Tale of Forest and Sea] Reference
Muttering savagely Alick withdrew with slouching gait. From Wordnik.com. [The Captain's Bunk A Story for Boys] Reference
John turned to the slouching figures of the rival crew. From Wordnik.com. [Around the World in Ten Days] Reference
We accepted the slouching Jacob instead with disrelish. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 099, March, 1876] Reference
Mr. Pertell saw a dark figure slouching along the highway. From Wordnik.com. [The Moving Picture Girls at Oak Farm or, Queer Happenings While Taking Rural Plays] Reference
She stared at the disreputable figure slouching on the chunk of wood. From Wordnik.com. [Prudence Says So] Reference
He looks like a Beatnik slouching in that chair, reading some Kerouac. From Wordnik.com. [Saving Grace] Reference
Working folk chalk off laps before slouching in front of computers all day. From Wordnik.com. [It's Never Too Late to Become a Mall Rat] Reference
He all but ran against the slouching figure, and he spoke sharply to the man. From Wordnik.com. [Ruth Fielding at the War Front or, The Hunt for the Lost Soldier] Reference
"Rudy was slouching in a chair and had his foot in the aisle," recalls Schneider. From Wordnik.com. [Growing Up Giuliani] Reference
Ever and anon came a dejected, weary squad with slouching gait and clayey complexions. From Wordnik.com. [Four Years in Rebel Capitals An Inside View of Life in the Southern Confederacy from Birth to Death] Reference
There was something unpleasantly familiar about the round shoulders and slouching walk. From Wordnik.com. [Grace Harlowe's Fourth Year at Overton College] Reference
He turned without another word, and walked down the hill with slouching step and head bent. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 22, September, 1878] Reference
Walked in a slouching kind of way with his hands down; new curate from St. Albans, perhaps. From Wordnik.com. [The Crimson Blind] Reference
There was an added droop to Stetson's shoulders that accentuated his usual slouching stance. From Wordnik.com. [Operation Haystack] Reference
"The durrty heretics," a slouching fellow, with a flat white face, muttered under his breath. From Wordnik.com. [The Beth Book Being a Study of the Life of Elizabeth Caldwell Maclure, a Woman of Genius] Reference
The economy is slouching backward because consumers can't and won't spend enough to revive it. From Wordnik.com. [Robert Reich: Why We Really Shouldn't Keep the Bush Tax Cut for the Wealthy] Reference
It was as if he spoke to himself, rather than to the slouching men, who regarded him curiously. From Wordnik.com. [Heart of the Blue Ridge] Reference
Dirk was a great broad-shouldered, slouching fellow, with a general air of shiftlessness about him. From Wordnik.com. [Culm Rock The Story of a Year: What it Brought and What it Taught] Reference
Upstream on the path between canal and river two mules appeared with a man slouching heavily behind them. From Wordnik.com. [Diane of the Green Van] Reference
And then there are the teenagers themselves, slouching toward adulthood in a world that loves conformity. From Wordnik.com. [The C Word In The Hallways] Reference
The guards who had been slouching along at a swinging gait now straightened up and assumed a more soldierly air. From Wordnik.com. [A Voyage with Captain Dynamite] Reference
It bore down on her like a physical burden, under which she had hardly the power to go forward with slouching steps. From Wordnik.com. [Heart of the Blue Ridge] Reference
"I ain't come for no friendly call," muttered Jude, slouching in and dropping on to a wooden chair beside the table. From Wordnik.com. [Joyce of the North Woods] Reference
Less than 50 metres away across a small bridge and under another tree sat a group of soldiers, slouching in the shade. From Wordnik.com. [Shabwa: Blood feuds and hospitality in al-Qaida's Yemen outpost] Reference
But the slouching gait was always back in a minute, and his unconscious fancy began to confine his footsteps once more. From Wordnik.com. [In Direst Peril] Reference
He was quite young, probably not more than one or two and twenty, tall and well-built, although he walked with a slouching gait. From Wordnik.com. [Chatterbox, 1905.] Reference
Voices now came to his ear, and it was easy enough to follow the three slouching figures that kept pushing deeper into the swamp. From Wordnik.com. [Darry the Life Saver The Heroes of the Coast] Reference
But on the day that I saw him, the 28-year-old Palestinian was slouching in a Gaza military courtroom, wearing dirty sweat pants. From Wordnik.com. [Death by Firing Squad] Reference
The baronet, as he moved towards it, was unconscious of the slouching figure of the labourer, who had been selling matches near the. From Wordnik.com. [The Grell Mystery] Reference
While I meet plenty of friendly, delightful people, there's enough cruel truth in the stereotype to keep it slouching into my mind. From Wordnik.com. [Got Game, Will Travel] Reference
A waiter stood over the table just on the other side of the palms, pulling back the chairs; slouching into their places were three men. From Wordnik.com. [The Pirate Shark] Reference
"In course I'll do hit fer ye, Smiles," was the ready answer, and her lank, slouching husband nodded a silent assent, as she turned to him. From Wordnik.com. ['Smiles' A Rose of the Cumberlands] Reference
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