There began to be comments among the Agitators on the dilatoriness of Cromwell, and especially on his coquettings with the King.
His dilatoriness over the plate may have been the cause of the unusual delay in the publication of the volume after it had been registered.
That the circumstances required patience in such men as the Adamses is abundantly evident from the frankness with which they wrote outside of Congress of the temporizing and dilatoriness of what went on in it.
Howe was much criticised for his dilatoriness and his failure promptly to use his fleet to get in the rear of Washington's army.
Timothy Pickering, who was then and has been since charged with dilatoriness in coming up.
The Continental Congress and the currency", wrote Gouverneur Morris in 1778, "have greatly depreciated.
STONE, Librarian of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania.
Sir, That my official existence has been prolonged to the present moment arises from the dilatoriness of the States in providing means to discharge those engagements, which I had taken for their benefit at the pressing instance of Congress.
They were, it seems, in keeping with the provoking dilatoriness in coming to a point which characterized all his lordship’s movements.
The failure of the expedition was charged by constant reports in England to the dilatoriness of Massachusetts in preparing the outfit.
He meant to prevent the aggrandizement of Austria, and was impatient at the dilatoriness and distrust of the princes.
He brought with him, many documents in support of the Brandenburg claims, and was charged with excuses for the dilatoriness of his master.
Every law was reduced to the practise of a quibble, every quibble was administered with a dilatoriness that was destructive not only to all legitimate industry, but also to the encouragement and maintenance of order.
The dilatoriness of the courts has become proverbial.
On the other hand he excused his dilatoriness with regard to the latter by bringing forward the activity of the Parthians.
The centurion on learning that his leader's death was due to his dilatoriness slew himself upon his body.
The dilatoriness of the French Government seems past all belief, and yet, in spite of his faith in the more expeditious methods of his own country, he was fated to encounter the same exasperating slowness at home.
Whatever dilatoriness may have been displayed on other occasions, there was no want of alacrity evinced when anything was to be yielded to the enemy.
Other grounds of complaint may have subsequently arisen, but thisdilatoriness was the first offence.
Then, with much vehemence of language, and manifestations of ill-temper, she expressed her displeasure at the dilatoriness of the States.
He then used language about himself, singularly resembling the phraseology employed by Elizabeth concerning him, when she was scolding the Netherland commissioners for the dilatoriness and parsimony of the States.
It is really wonderful that the mystery should have been cleared and the Count's character satisfactorily vindicated, with such dilatoriness of proceeding.
The boatswain could not make his way aft till I was some rattlings up the main rigging, and thus, his intentional and kind dilatoriness saved me from the indignity of a blow.
Trusting that he was as impatient as all great men usually are when dealing with little ones, I hoped by dilatoriness to weary him out, and thus remain unseen.
Not being so sanguine as to think, that it will prevent Russia from supplying England with troops, should the other demand them, but it may give a secret dilatoriness to their assistance, which may finally operate in our favor.
As a general Daun has been reproached for the dilatoriness of his operations, but wariness was not misplaced in opposing a general like Frederick, who was quick and unexpected in his movements beyond all precedent.
These successes were counterbalanced in the following year by the defeat of Loudon at Liegnitz, which was attributed to the dilatoriness of Daun, and Daun's own defeat in the great battle of Torgau (q.
Fortunately for Charles, the dilatoriness and want of generalship of John Frederick saved Maurice from ruin, until the death of Francis I.
Such facts account for the dilatoriness of Napoleon's movements in part; for the rest, his imperial plans demanded that he should organize all the territories in his rear, and he gave himself the utmost pains to do so.
But with the dilatoriness which characterized all the Russian movements he came too late, a single detachment under Diebitsch falling in with the Prussians on their own territory.
Footnote 3: He has been accused of dilatoriness and want of decision after hearing the news.
