Here he witnessed a degree of social advancement far beyond that of the shiftless Algonquins on the St. Lawrence.
When they came to Hochelaga, on the site of Montreal, they found there only a few shiftless and roving Algonquins.
You mean to say that because I work hard and get a little fore-handed I ought to take a lot of shiftless folks and teach them to be lazy and dependent on me?
A shiftless man sometimes makes shiftless men more contented, softening enmities against life, and quieting clamors against discriminating nature.
Aye, that was what the poor shiftless creature would come to if he hadn't her to make both ends meet!
He waz shiftless and didn't have nothin' and didn't lay up any.
But Joan (finding a money-belt uncomfortable because of her corsets) had adopted the shiftless plan of secreting her savings in a pocket contrived for that purpose in an old underskirt.
Joan gathered that her voice was the main support of a small family, consisting of a shiftless husband and three children, for the younger of whom the mother was knitting a pair of small, pink bootees.
There would be less poor folks in this world if people didn't dally round in such a shiftless manner.
Total lack of moral principle combined with an indolent, shiftlessdisposition had given him a distorted outlook on things.
The poorshiftless thing having placed the baby on the floor again, began to stir about and make ready.
The shiftless boor of a stable-boy found himself transformed into a shining hero, and he meant to lie back and live on it for the rest of his days.
West was agreeably contrite; abused himself for a shiftless lackwit who was slated for an unwept grave; promised to call that very day; and, making a memorandum the instant he got back to the office, this time did not fail to keep his word.
His wife, who had perhaps become tired of the family fortune as it never quite realized itself, tried to prod hershiftless husband into a greater activity.
This was the settlement in Carolina of Albemarle, back country to Virginia, gatherer thence of many that were hardy and sound, many that were unfortunate, and many that were shiftless and untamed.
Do you never find scorn creeping into your heart in place of adoration when you mark the unpaid bills and the shiftless endeavor that strew his idle way?
This going to hunt up her shiftless husband at the inn was one of Mrs Durbeyfield's still extant enjoyments in the muck and muddle of rearing children.
But they'll come to that," said the shiftless one.
Here's a gully," said the shiftless one, "and it will hold us all.
He knew that they were cannon, but he had hoped that the shiftless one would persuade him they were not.
The shiftless one was the next to awake, and he too looked at his sleeping comrades.
They didn't see us," said theshiftless one, "but it was hard to stay hid.
An' now they're dancin' with all their might," whispered the shiftless one.
Then the shiftless one propped his back against a bank of leaves between him and the trunk of a tree, and, with the rifle across his knees, watched.
Toward night the shiftless one awoke, and they ate the last of their food.
I know what's happened," said the shiftlessone suddenly.
He glanced at the shiftless one and saw in his eyes the same intense awed look which he knew was in his own.
Long Jim and the shiftless one, who lay side by side, gazed at the tree in silent admiration.
They're shiftlessto the last degree, but not violent.
She mothered him and did not seem to worry much about his shiftless ways.
He was shiftless and drinking, cruel and untruthful.
They came of thrifty and well-to-do stock, the shiftless and incompetent not being represented.
His father, old Sam Maybin, had been a shiftless and tricky rascal, as everybody knew, and had ended his days in the poorhouse.
He was really going to reform all his slack, shiftless ways, save a large proportion of his magnificent salary yearly, and, in a very short time, return to marry Agnes Laiter.
Why were they not ashamed of him as he stood there, tattered and muddy--the very picture of the aimless, shiftless wanderer that his father had been before him?
I loved her very tenderly, but she married against my will a shiftless scamp who--" Worth lifted her hand slightly.
He was not one of that shiftless and restless class to whom it is very clear Mr. Lincoln’s step-brother belonged.
Shiftless people are very apt to think they can earn a living away from home better than at home.
It was a piece of good fortune for himself and his children, that, shiftless and unambitious as he was, he should have won a wife so much more capable and energetic than himself.
