Among the stuff which I more or less listlesslyread was an astonishing book called "Norwood.
I had been reading listlessly a cruel essay in the Atlantic on the wickedness of smoking, and was presently seized with a desire to look at King James's famous "counterblast" against the weed.
To Landless, awaiting rather listlessly the outcome of this nocturnal adventure, came now and then a broken sentence.
There was but little wind, but what there was came from the land, and the Bluebird moved steadily though listlessly down the inlet, between the velvet marshes.
A roar of applause burst from the crossbowmen; but at the instant that the bolt struck its mark old Johnston, who had stood listlessly with arrow on string, bent his bow and sped a shaft through the body of the falcon.
She did not like being reproached, and, retiring huffily into a haughty silence, she sat by listlessly while Philip made the preparations for their departure.
Philip stood at the table and pretended to turn listlessly the pages of the Bible.
She put her lips listlesslyto the glass and drank two or three mouthfuls.
Tom, during this rattle, had been looking listlessly out of the window.
I was seated outside my tent gazing listlessly on the scene, when I was roused by a well-remembered cry, but one which I had not heard for years.
He gazed listlessly at the grim images, wondered at the folly of the Franks, thought the night cold, and turned his mare towards his tents.
A Bedouin, wrapped in his ragged cloak, was seated listlessly in the tent.
The very sight of that handsome barouche that has driven from the hotel, with its beautiful occupant lying listlessly back among the cushions, has set my heart a-beating far far too hurriedly.
From the window Dora listlessly viewed the back-drifting fields and forests, the tobacco which she had never seen growing before, and the old-fashioned houses on the farms as well as in the towns and villages.
Listlessly intoning her scale and cutting the half darkness with her finger, she stopped with a start.
I couldn't git the cow an' calf," shelistlessly informed him.
Then she paused at a lichen-grown boulder, rested a white, throbbing hand on it, and listlessly surveyed the trees about the farm-house.
She listlessly complied, walking along at his side like a drooping human flower in movement.
There were many around the fire that night, and all listened eagerly to the thrilling narrative except Old Tom; he gazed listlessly into the glowing fire, and smoked his pipe unmoved.
Three of the party were engaged in animated discussion; the fourth walked a little way ahead, his eyes fixed listlessly on the ground.
She had not gone into the house, she was leaning against a green mound, her hands hanging listlessly before her, the white, startled change on her face still.
But when the blue-coated keeper drew near, they would listlessly disperse to their former places.
When his mother, the cook, Nadejda, paid him a visit, he would eat listlessly the sweets she brought him.
There were the usual early loafers at the station, hands deep in pockets, ruminant, listlessly observant.
Gladys Grayson drops the question into Helen's ear as she stands listlessly leaning against the conservatory entrance.
Susanne comes into the room, saying to Helen who lies in bed, listlessly staring out of the window into the frosty morning: "Madame's bath is ready.
But six o'clock came: Hooker still lay listlesslyawaiting an attack, with his forces disjointedly lodged, and with no common purpose of action; and Jackson had gathered for his mighty blow.
As I stood listlessly looking at the window, and the publications which it contained, I observed a paper affixed to the glass by wafers with something written upon it.
After pacing backward and forward slowly for some little time, he stopped at the lower extremity of the garden, and, leaning on the fen ce, looked down listlessly at the smooth flow of the river.
She looked mechanically at the headings of the articles; she listlessly turned over page after page, until her wandering attention was arrested by the narrative of an Execution in a distant part of England.
No," she said, looking out listlessly through the window; "I am not more tired than usual.
She rose again and sat by the window, looking out listlessly over the sea.
So I sat there listlessly watching the listlessly moving figure with the wide hat-brim pulled down over its face.
The figure that drifted listlesslyin past the Farragut Statue and wandered on under the park trees in some way reminded me of my own.
So I looked up at my servant a little listlessly and yet a little puzzled by what was plainly a studied calmness of appearance.
But the attractions of the noble park, through which he listlessly sauntered, and of the adjacent Kensington Gardens, to which he unconsciously extended his rambles, were entirely lost upon the abstracted wanderer.
Milly agreed listlessly that they were a poor compromise for the real thing.
As he lighted his spirit-lamp and filled the little kettle from the jug in the next room Amory listlessly tossed over the magazines on his little round table; but there was nothing new in them.
Amory was sitting on a painted three-legged stool under a standard lamp, listlessly turning over the pages of a magazine.
Lazarus sat alone, holding his bared head to the sun, listening in silence to the murmur of the waters, and afar off the sailors and the messengers lounged around feebly and listlessly huddled together like a cluster of despondent shadows.
After his scrutiny Lazarus obediently resumed his seat, and listlessly looked to the ground.
Only when they ventured to hold lengthy speeches on love and beauty he wearily and listlessly replied: "But all this is a lie.
It became her business, however, some days later, when Mr. Calton was so much better that he could sit in a chair, or even lounge listlessly in the hall and corridor.
Indeed, as she sat there listlessly probing the roots of the mosses with the point of her parasol, the casual passer-by might have taken herself for the heroine of some love tryst.
Lady Constance, at the moment, was seated somewhat listlessly on a pile of oriental cushions, holding her arms extended, while Dr.
