"Dawdling" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... and, for the time of year, warm, and I took advantage of it by dawdling along that glorious stretch of sea-coast, taking in to the full its rich stores of romantic scenery and suggestion of long-past ages. Sometimes I sat for a long time, smoking my pipe on the edge of the headlands, staring at the blue of ...
— Ravensdene Court • J. S. (Joseph Smith) Fletcher
... dawdling over this last chapter on purpose—and I have re-read the former ones and decided to rewrite one or two, but at best I cannot spread this out over more than six weeks, I fear, and then what excuse can I have ...
— Man and Maid • Elinor Glyn
... family dresses, some were very tasty milliners. It gave them a reliance upon what they could do themselves. The two daughters of one workman kept a little poultry-yard "scientifically," and dressed themselves from its proceeds. Industry became more general. Instead of dawdling away whole evenings in gossip, they had some light employment, ...
— Hope Mills - or Between Friend and Sweetheart • Amanda M. Douglas
... and vigorous to spend your life dawdling in society. You yearn for action, for the broad, free life of the open. You're in love with this country ...
— 'Firebrand' Trevison • Charles Alden Seltzer
... clattering about the dairy, cheese-room, and yard, in high pattens. Charity was some sort of niece of the old lady's, and was consequently free of the farmhouse and garden, into which she could not resist going for the purposes of gossip and flirtation with the heir-apparent, who was a dawdling fellow, never out at work as he ought to have been. The moment Charity had found her cousin, or any other occupation, Tom would slip away; and in a minute shrill cries would be heard from the dairy, "Charity, Charity, thee lazy huzzy, where bist?" ...
— Tom Brown's Schooldays • Thomas Hughes
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