How nice to dawdle in the bath with a cigarette, to hear the holiday sound of Church bells!
I quite grieve over little Ach met forced to dawdle away his time and his faculties here.
You've no idea how beastly it is to dawdle about in a crowd of people, and then at the end go back to another term of school.
In the middle of the discussion the clock in the passage would strike ten, at which Michael and Alan would yawn and dawdle their way upstairs.
In short, he's just the sort of man to dawdle away the brightest years of his life in the drawing-rooms of a lot of women, and take to writing cynical trash about better men in his old age.
I go into a few more shops: I dawdle over some china.
When it comes, I try to dawdle over it as much as possible, to sip my tea with labored slowness, and bite each mouthful with conscientious care.
Five minutes ago he seemed willing enough to dawdle on till midnight.
I am stooping to pick a little posy of violets as these languid thoughts dawdle through my mind--blue mysteries of sweetness and color, born of the unscented, dull earth.
She would dawdle about her dressing-table: skim through a book: laugh to herself at the memory of something said or done.
Now he is master, he will please himself; and his pleasure is to dawdle in the dram-shop and to slumber on the stove.
Heaven,' says the rustic to his neighbor, as theydawdle home from church, 'is mightier than the Tsar.
She had studied not only with a will, but an eager interest in so many things that she wondered how girls could dawdle along.
I don't see how women can dawdle away their time so, when they've small families.
Well, if I had ever so much money I couldn't find it in my conscience to dawdle away time and have someone wait upon me.
It was not a time to dawdle or hesitate, I can assure you.
He went over to Swampington, therefore, upon a dutiful visit to his uncle; but rode to the Towers every day to inquire very particularly after his cousin's progress, and to dawdleon the sunny western terrace with Mary Marchmont.
She had ceased to hope or care for anything since her father's death, and was very well contented to be let alone, and allowed to dawdlethrough a dreary life which was utterly without aim or purpose.
We shall dawdle out our time here as much as possible, as we do not want to be more than a day in Cairo.
Ill as he was, and in love as we knew him to be, he didn't stop to be nursed by his mother, Harry, or to dawdle with his sweetheart.
Thus urged, Dawdle accepted the bank-note with great reluctance, and restored the idea to the right owner.
Sycamore, after some hesitation, declared he would follow and provoke him to battle, on condition that Dawdle would engage Crowe; and this condition was accepted.
About eight in the morning Mr. Dawdle brought him a formal message from the knight of the Griffin, desiring he would appoint the lists, and give security of the field.
Dawdle hearing this request, began to retrieve his faculties, and throwing himself into the attitude of Hamlet when the ghost appears, exclaimed in theatrical accent, Angels and ministers of grace defend us!
To this proposal, Dawdle answered by the interjection pish!
Perhaps he would have contented himself with this kind of victory, had notDawdle further inflamed his envy and ambition, by launching out in praise of Sir Launcelot.
Nevertheless, he seasoned his freedom with certain qualifying ingredients, that subdued the bitterness of it, and was now become so necessary to the squire, that he had no idea of enjoyment with which Dawdle was not somehow or other connected.
This handsome and stalwart lily of the valley, with no desire for toiling, and no ability for spinning, would be content to drift and dawdle through life on his father's money.
The man I marry must win my respect, my highest faith; must have an aim, an ambition, and not dawdle through life as some silly woman might.
The hour had come when Ida told herself that she must no longer dawdle along the flowery path of sin, no longer palter with fate.
She might depart at her leisure, and dawdle as much as she pleased on her homeward way.
I could dawdle about in the nursery and count the apricots on the wall.
If the young people here want to dawdleabout any longer they can do so; I dare say they can look after themselves, or if not, I can make an arrangement with some old lady or other to act as Alice's chaperon.
Well, perhaps we will let you go on Friday, but we shall have to dawdle about the lakes for some time.
The old gossip and dawdle have disappeared from the parochial charity, but with them has gone a good deal of the social contact, the sympathy of rich with poor, in which its chief virtue lay.
He was a collector of rare editions of the Classics, and would dawdle over a Greek play, edited by some learned German, for a week at a time, losing himself in the profundity of elaborate foot-notes.
Ernest Breslaw, walking up the street and quite unexpectedly espying her, and being such a friend of mine, should dawdle with her awaiting my reappearance, while growing inwardly wishful that it might be long delayed.
In such dryad-like resorts we were tempted to dawdle so long that the big hours of the evening frequently found us still on the breast of the river.
I at any rate watch the small boy dawdle and gape again.
After a big fit of work, I can dawdle against any one; then I get another fit of work--it's like appetite.
She sat down on the edge of the sofa, and though the gong was about to sound, incited him to dawdle and stay with her.
If they knew the pleasure of being thoroughly alive," said Madge, "they wouldn't dawdle another hour.
One languid day was the parent of another, it was so much easier todawdle than to act.
She did dawdle about until Mrs. Henders asked her twice if there was anything more that she wanted, and, as she could not pretend that there was, she had to step out and face the world again.
She would dawdle about in there, she told herself, until most of them had gone by.
