The story first brings into strong contrast the eager king, full of his purpose, and the sluggardsto whom he had to entrust its execution.
If we are such sluggards that we will 'not plough in winter by reason of the cold,' we shall 'beg in harvest and have nothing.
For no man I think is drunk so often as the sluggard is dead in sleep: sluggards quite kill their reason, when most drunkards do but maim it, or make it sick.
Sluggards bury their wits and parts usually ten times as long in the year, as the filthiest drunkards do.
He that travelleth with speedy travellers, will be willing to keep pace with them; and tired sluggards are drawn on by others; when he that travelleth with the slothful will go slowly as they do.
We sluggards had better make the same clean breast of the business.
Then plough deep while sluggards sleep, and you shall have corn to sell and to keep.
Sluggards in the time for ploughing and sowing are sluggards indeed, for they not only waste the day, but throw away the year.
God grant that you spiritual sluggards may wake before that; but you will not unless you bestir yourselves betimes, for "now is the accepted time"; and it may be now or never.
The notion of these sluggards is that a man is to wait, and do nothing; he is to sit still, and let the grass grow up to his ankles in the hope of heavenly help.
And then pass back unwounded, laughing deep Amid the galleys at the news they bring Of Trojan sluggards and the fool their king?
Up from your couches And watch on, the sluggards ye are!
The banner of the marauders, the drunkards, the idlers, the sluggards of the valley des Aigues was the terrible tavern of the Grand-I-Vert.
Then plough deep, whileSluggards sleep, and you shall have Corn to sell and to keep, says Poor Dick.
Then plow deep, whilesluggards sleep, and you shall have corn to sell and to keep.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "sluggards" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
