She breakfasted in bed every day, served by Avery who was firm as to the amount of nourishment taken but comfortably lax on all other points.

Americans reluctant to war against Indians; culpably lax in defence of their honor.

The old Semitic law regarding divorce was exceedingly lax.

To a materialist like you they seem, I know, absurdly orthodox; to a church member in good standing they might seem fatally lax; but such as they are I have not changed them.

So far from the weary reader being a decently tired giant, we realise that he is only an inexpressibly lax, slovenly and under-trained giant, and we are all out with one accord resolved to exercise his higher ganglia in every possible way.

'It is not that he was a careless man, he was a most careful one; it is not that he was a morally lax man, he was almost morbidly the reverse.

Who, posing as the friend of Pax, Yet was not noticeably lax In the true Teuton faith which hacks Its way along; forbidden tracks, Marks bloody dates on almanacs And holds all promises as wax; Breeding, where once we knew Hans Sachs, A race of monomaniacs....

The chief of Sonmiani was, for a Mohammedan, singularly lax.

"Rudolph, as you are perfectly aware, would simply deplore the terribly lax modern notions in regard to marriage and talk to newspaper reporters about this much" he measured it between thumb and forefinger "concerning the beauty and chivalry of the South.