Where among the drones and laggardsis one who can find such sweets as well-earned rest and comfort after labor?
A few venturesome ones kept to their purpose and started on ahead, promising to meet the laggards at Lake Bennett with boats of their own making in which to journey down the river and lakes to Dawson.
Among the laggards were not merely the marauders and ne'er-do-wells who had cast off all obedience, but veterans who were overcome by the rigours of the winter cold and the heavy marching on diminished rations.
Colonel Beckwith rode up and down the column, throwing a word to this man and that, encouraging the laggards and chaffing the boasters.
At length, at the end of an hour, only a few laggards came, after at least five thousand buffaloes had crossed the river, and yet the number of these animals is said to be quite insignificant compared with what it was twenty years ago.
Here and there laggards crept out of the tents and ran off to the stream to remove the last traces of sleep in its clear waters.
Westham summoning the laggards of the congregation to prayers.
For this the tugs have been sent out in readiness, and the convoy launch has a busy mission in casting about to find and set them to the task of towing the laggards round.
There are gaps and kinks in our formation that would, perhaps, call for angry signals in a line of battle, but the laggards are closing up in hasty order to right the wayward tricks of sound and distance in the fog.
Of course both the laggards were up and ready by the time the call to breakfast was heard in the land.
After that it was noticed that even the laggards began to show unusual energy, as if the prospect of soon being able to throw themselves down and slake their thirst, as well as satisfy their hunger, appealed forcibly to them.
Close behind the pack rode a fourrier and a yeoman-pricker, whooping on the laggards and encouraging the leaders, in the shrill half-French jargon which was the language of venery and woodcraft.
Out upon you all, as a set of laggards and hang-backs!
The gun was cleared away, loaded, and fired--not once but nearly a dozen times before the laggards appeared.
We had innumerable limpers and laggards on our marches in the environs of Paris.
The Burgomaster had given the signal of exodus, and all had obeyed it, stricken to the heart, with the exception of the Carmelites and some dozen laggards and stubborn spirits, such as the old beadle described by M.
Yet every winter some laggards remain much farther north, feeding about springs or streams.
Reports of their breeding in Argentina, based on the presence of these laggards in migration are wholly unauthenticated.
And when the best places are all filled, and the laggards do come up, then the human comedy begins.
It could not have been far from nine o'clock when every preparation was completed, and the echoing bugle called the laggards from their quarters into the open parade.
The column had halted as our last laggards cleared the gate; and for a moment we rested in silence upon the side of the slope, while the long line was being re-arranged for travel.
Six-score of your breed here among us, or as many as their wounds permit to ride, would bring thelaggards in.
Long ago, when I used to scatter a handful of Chalicodomae some way from home, in order to study their capacity for finding their nest again, I noticed that, if they were too long absent, thelaggards found their cells closed on their return.
The waverers, the laggardswho stop almost at once on some bush shall be left out of the reckoning.
One of these laggardsis not satisfied with a single cell; she needs two, three, four.
Henceforth, both prisoners and straylaggards resume their ordinary labours, indifferently with the rest.
The laggards who remain under the cabanes are taken off by hand, and placed on a table, which is immediately encabanea.
The swarm rises, whirling round about in the air; it poises itself for a few minutes over the hive, to allow time to reconnoitre, and for the laggards to join, and then goes off at full speed.
The laggards had been suitably punished for their lack of punctuality, and the General and the rest of the soldiers had enjoyed a good joke.
In the course of an hour the loiterers and laggards of the late besiegers began to come into our lines in crowds.
In consequence of the "finding" of the order of march, McClellan advanced with such rapidity that the laggards of the Southern army on the hills north of Leesburg had no opportunity of joining the main body.
When the metamorphosis of the laggards is completed, which does not take many days, I proceed to take a general census.
The laggards and the insects eager to emerge are less likely to get in each other's way.
She has passed through them, crunched thelaggards between her jaws, treated them as cavalierly as she treats my disks.
The others follow, if ready; but there are always laggards who keep the rear-ranks waiting until they are gone.
Before coming to these useless tasks, my laggards have laid their last eggs, of which I know the exact cells, the exact dates.
The gray lash curled around a handful oflaggards and swept them into captivity.
And through the next two days the inference was very clear: fall behind at your own risk; there will be no waiting for laggards to catch up.
The laggards had caught up, and at the edge of the arc of firelight a wide semicircle of insanely glaring eyeballs and gleaming fangs told where the wolf-pack waited.
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