Answers came back faintly from the frosty fields, where the dim figures of laggard hands could be seen hurrying over the ploughland; then David called "All right," and the machine began to hum.
Then came the sound of dropping chains and iron rods, and the thud of the hoofs as the horses walked with laggard gait and down-falling heads to the barn.
The laggard years have quenched my pride; They cannot kill the ache, the ache.
We will go back to Babylon, Silently one by one, Out from the hills and the laggard brooks To the streams that brim in the sun.
When Pierson, laggardas usual, returned to Battle Field a week after the end of the long vacation, he found Scarborough just establishing himself.
So the laggardat last draws sword," sneered Hroar.
The laggard Asturians and Navarrese, silently trailing the host, had closed upon the rear, eager to share the Moslem plunder and to avenge the ruined walls of Pampeluna.
The laggard wizard has been called to dose some filthy slave, and I 've waited till sleep weighs down my eyelids.
From a cold cloud descended never winds, Or visible or not, so rapidly They would not laggard and impeded seem To any one who had those lights divine Seen come towards us, leaving the gyration Begun at first in the high Seraphim.
Still hoping that the laggard reinforcements would come up, the survivors held desperately on; but both in the kraal and in the donga their numbers were from minute to minute diminishing.
Amid the laughter of his Irishmen, he walked through the open files of his firing line holding a laggard by the ear.
You’re not a laggardin love, whatever you may be in practical matters.
But your laggard memory halts and stumbles and plays traitor by refusing to keep pace with it.
Whether or not his Majesty has been true to his bargain, the laggardposts of the Pacific may perhaps inform me in six months, perhaps not before a year.
The company was stirred with a desire for knowledge as to the when and the how, so that they might not be laggard in their compliments upon the making of such an evidently pretty piece of golf.
We like even to see the dewdrops lingering on until starting time, taking advantage of the laggard autumnal sun.
Daun to himself, in still more disappointment ("Laggard that I am!
And now must my story hasten on by strides, such as never the laggard months took after I had said farewell to Ludar.
All this I heard, and more than ever chafed at the slackness of ourlaggard steeds.
Oh, Roy," she sighed, "never was such a laggardlad with me before.
If the thing was to be done, let it be done at once; and the British tar is never a laggard when there is fighting or adventure to be had!
With a cry of alarm she aroused her mother, and Lize, heavy-eyed, laggard with sleep, rose slowly and peered out at the scene with eyes of dull amazement.
Yet across this strip and through it the laggard steam locomotive still continues to draw long trains of coal--with 20 per cent.
For not only is our steam locomotive a laggard in his over-greed for food but he is lazy into the bargain.
He is to-day not merely a laggard but an actual obstructionist.
But the laggard steam locomotive is permitted to loaf in great roundhouses along the steel highway.
There is no inherent reason whatever why he should be a laggard unless men themselves so desire.
