They had dawdled in the tea-garden out of compassion, rescuing wasps with teaspoons from drowning in the jam.
That morning Barrington dawdled over his breakfast, postponing his departure for business.
Such trophies of ferns and lace-like mosses were not to be plucked in every walk, and they dawdled on and on skirmishing, with delighted hardihood, against the pitfalls of bog that covered morass and pitch-black mud.
The image of Prosper Profond dawdledbefore him reassuringly.
But he dawdled down Bond Street with a beating heart, noticing the superiority of all other young men to himself.
He dressed slowly, heard her leave her room and go downstairs, and, for full five minutes after, dawdled about in his dressing-room.
He dawdled over his coffee until the cook stared curiously at him, he used up a great deal of time buttering his hot cakes, he ate very slowly.
She did not even fall foul of his indifference when he dawdled about, a picture of aimless dejection, at the hawking party; in fact, she had a sneaking sympathy with his feelings.
Until a quarter to three he expertly shuffled and dawdled and evaded.
He had said he would, but had dawdled skillfully and was still unfitly in bare feet and the shabby garments of a weekday.
He had dawdled away years enough: he would put a purpose into his manhood, that some distant eyes, seeing, might not relegate him entirely to the regions of contempt.
He had dawdled through the party, waltzing with a languid grace that most girls considered the essence of high-breeding.
Ship after ship came up astern, passed us, and sped away homewards, while we dawdled through those crowded waters, running the risk of the fair wind blowing itself out before we had gained our port.
Consequently, we dawdled along with variable winds and dirty weather, never keeping a steady breeze for more than a day or two at the outside.
These thoughts jumbled themselves together in her mind, as they dawdled back to the camp, the happy dawdling of lovers.
I should not have dawdled so long over my dressing.
Other fellows would shoot all the birds if he dawdled any longer.
Over these he haddawdled till his brain had become muddled with their unreal incidents and impure suggestions, and now that they were done he felt fit for nothing.
Thus he dawdled for some time; then with a sigh and an effort he tore himself away and walked quickly on to the Newcomes' house.
Grandcourt senior, overtaking them as they dawdled along.
To Dick's friends this long summer dawdled itself away much as the previous one had done.
Something over a month later, Mr. Early burst in on Mr. and Mrs. Percival as they dawdled over the breakfast-table.
It was the haunt of the lower class of agricultural labourers, and of the bargemen, who moored their barges sometimes beneath the shadow of Raynham Bridge, while they dawdled away a few lazy hours in the village public-house.
This was all; and this was the announcement which Reginald Eversleigh read one morning, as he dawdled over his late breakfast, after a night spent in dissipation and folly.
An hour was dawdled away thus, and then, when Mrs. Winstanley began to think about dressing for dinner, Vixen went off to finish her packing.
I was disappointed in you because you hadn't dawdled around Europe for years in the wake of an education.
Knowing that the enchantment of the château would vanish as soon as I entered it, I dawdled on the way so as to prolong my pleasure.
We dawdled on our way back, hoping that there would be enough men in front of us to clear the lot.
Nobody could quote Mr Seyton as a monster of wickedness, because he dawdled away his time over his sherry, and knew no excitement but an occasional game of cards at not very high stakes.
And yet Hornby dawdled irresolutely, as though his determination were hardly strong enough yet.
The cholera was very prevalent at Varna that month, and those who dawdled about in the hot sun, at the mouth of the filthy drains of that accursed hole, found it unto their cost.
And so hedawdled round to St. Peter's Church, and came upon his young friend, playing at fives with the ball he had given him, as energetically as he had before played with the brass button.
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