A family man, however, cannot contemplate that piddling patch with any patience, even though he have a taste for literature as real as his taste for beans.
Our House of Commons, mere poachers, are piddling wit the torture of Leheup,(442) who extracted so much money out of the lottery.
You may have heard that I am always piddling about ornaments and improvements for Strawberry Hill-I am now doing a great deal to the house--stay, I don't want Genoa damask!
There was no piddling or peddling about this at any rate.
Now it's no good going on piddling and peddling in such a case as this; is it now, Sir Thomas?
At first he confined himself to piddling game, exercising his genius upon his own tutor, who attracted his attention, by endeavouring to season his mind with certain political maxims, the fallacy of which he had discernment enough to perceive.
You're piddling out of that dear cunt," said I, "how I wish I could feel it.
I used to watch Mary, slipping out into the outside passage leading to the servant's privy, and take pleasure in the idea of her piddling there.
But it won't be done by piddling around with the kind of pretty idealism that never worked even on Earth.
There are lots of loafers and piddling projects,--but the government's also doing some big jobs, some real construction work.
But now, in this habit, shall I know the very core of her heart and her little piddling sins, which will show in my book as foils to her giant-bodied virtues.
I was on lunch period, justpiddling around out north by east, I would say, from the Texas School Book Depository Building.
We were kind of piddling around, and I kind of walked off ahead of him.
