Ah, that will open the eyes of some of these indolent know-it-all louts who said the money spent on your education was thrown in the fire.
She rose and gave him her hand, and the two stood facing each other, she speechless, he thoroughly at his indolent ease.
Indolence and shallowness must fail to bear fruit: that is the essential doctrine of the parable; but it is not necessary that we should remain indolent or shallow: "He that hath ears to hear, let him hear.
But it gives no licence to go where we cannot be a healing influence, where the light must be kept in a dark lantern if not under a bushel, where, instead of drawing men upward, we shall only confirm their indolent self-satisfaction.
We had grown indolent and money-loving and commonplace.
The rise of the decadent school in art and literature is not the least sign of any indolentor corrupt deterioration.
My companion rises and smiles, thinking me lost in indolent content; he hardly guesses how far I have been voyaging "On strange seas of thought alone.
He tells me that the creole negroes and mulattoes are far superior in industry to the Portuguese and Brazilians; who, from causes not difficult to be imagined, are for the most part indolent and ignorant.
Indolent persons have less need of being amused than others; but perhaps there are few if any persons to be found, who are so indolent as not to think continually, on one subject or another.
Let me not be understood as saying that the strong, and the robust, and the active cannot digest food which the weak, and enervated, and indolent cannot.
These lines, which were published with the enlarged title "To a Young Man of Fortune who had abandoned himself to an indolent and causeless melancholy," may have been addressed to Charles Lloyd.
Her usual slow indolent grace had fallen from her; she radiated energy.
Along this shore are scattered various buildings that seem to nod in the indolent sunshine of the bright, clear, quiet air of midsummer.
Indolent as he seemed to be, he loved the old school, and hated the thought of leaving it.
The nineteenth century is hardly to be congratulated upon such indolent inanity, such lambent laxity, as this.
His half-indolent carelessness had given place to a stern reticence; his indifference, to a measured self-control.
Even the indolent Heathcote looked up as Helen spoke.
The party now divided itself under these two leaders; those who were indolent staid with Rachel; those who were not afraid of exercise went with Isabel.
Do not be deceived by his indolent manner, Crystal; he is full of all sorts of unexpected strong likings and feelings, in spite of his lazy look.
At Caryl's they generally followed whatever was suggested, with indolent acquiescence.
Heathcote was slightly above middle height, and well built, but his gait was indolent and careless.
Tita, in her corner, kept watch over the proceedings, and inhaled the aroma of the coffee with indolent anticipation.
Heathcote, indolent as he was, had a superb constitution, for which and of which, ungratefully, he had never thought long enough to be thankful.
Now that there is a greater firmness and solidity in the conceptions, which are the objects of conviction and assurance, than in the loose and indolent reveries of a castle-builder, every one will readily own.
Human life is so tiresome a scene, and men generally are of such indolent dispositions, that whatever amuses them, though by a passion mixt with pain, does in the main give them a sensible pleasure.
These damages were seldom repaired, for the indolent planter would not undertake the work of draining and of permanently securing the tillable surface of his land.
I was indolent and procrastinating, and when I thought of asking him to dine, or taking some other step towards better knowledge, he seemed to be in Paris, or at Dieppe.
The Prince went on in indolent conversation with our armourer, whose skill in his art had made him personally known to many of the great lords about the court.
Sensual, selfish, and indolent as was the great ruler of the South, he had yet the political wisdom that foresees a crisis, the subtlety that prevents it, and the resolution that opposes it when it comes.
Not only was it too indolent for great morality, it was too indolenteven for great art.
I have paid indolent visits, I have taken the airs of a bored 'agathophile,' I have turned my back on the objects of your desire.
If an indolent woman becomes energetic, if a woman who formerly hated study learns a foreign language; in short, every appearance of a complete change in character is a decisive symptom.
The life of a soldier, in peace, is indolent enough, Heaven knows!
The fact is, that we are an indolent people; the person who succeeds the most with us has but to push the most.
But they who know how irksome is the perpetual trouble of conciliation to a man meditative and indolent like Godolphin, will appreciate the pain that even her tenderness occasioned him.
His talents, therefore, only preyed on himself; and instead of the vigorous and daring actor of the world, he was alternately the indolent sensualist or the solitary dreamer.
The energies that had marked his boyhood were dulled and crippled in the indolent life of the world.
That languid, indolent way of his, as if he rather thought that it was the duty of other people to devote themselves to his amusement, and which made the men vote him a puppy, was to them quite new and very amusing.
Every few moments the lady would start from her seat and with her eyes flashing fire she would advance towards the indolent dandy by the mantelpiece as if with purpose of personal assault.
His tyrannies became ever more tyrannical, his exactions more shameless, his indolent arrogance more oppressive.
A quiet Time in History, like a Calm in a Voyage, leaves us but in an indolent Station: To talk of our Affairs when they were no longer ruffled by Misfortunes, would be a Picture without Shade, a flat Performance at best.
