26 collocations for lag

The enemy had rallied at a village; and Havelock's men, after their day's fight, lagged a little when, having gone over ploughed fields and swamps, they came again under fire.

Year chases year, decay pursues decay, Still drops some joy from withering life away; New forms arise, and different views engage, Superfluous lags the veteran on the stage, Till pitying Nature signs the last release, And bids afflicted worth retire to peace.

~Ballade of the Alumna.~ How sadly in these latter days, In search of memories bitter-sweet, We tread the once-accustomed ways With step grown slow, and lagging feet, Timed to the pulse's slower beat, And climb the stair and reach the floor, To findalas!

Taylor Instrument Companies (PWH); 5Feb68; R429023. Lag error In mercurial sphygmomanometers.

Is it true that all through strangers, We must starve in our own land?" Low upon her chair that mother Droops, and sighs with tearful eye; At the hearthstone lags the father, Musing o'er the days gone by.

With fast-dwindling supplies, lagging footsteps, and depressed spirits, the expedition travelled slowly on to the south-west corner of the Gulf where, in crossing a large river, the Roper, four of the horses were drowned in consequence of the boggy banks.

" "Lag she been you' h-own?" asked the mother, suffering from her own boldness.

All must at-tend to Tom; and mind None play too fast, nor lag be-hind; And then, I'm sure, we all shall see How grand a con-cert this will be, And say this is the wis-est way To spend this wet Oc-to-ber day.

When lagging members of Congress came in, as they often did, after the guests had sat down to dinner, the president's only apology was, 'Gentlemen (or sir) we are too punctual for you.

Far behind lagged a monoplane.

PTI did not lag behind with Parshuram Paper Mills at Chiplun, industrial gases in Bangalore and, to the surprise of many, an English-language newspaper from Margao!

But time does move, albeit with lagging pace to a lover, and in due season Mark was on his way.

Yet I'll not go without giving thee something to show what my will is, Even though sadly behind my good-will must lag the performance.

If in Africa, under a tropical sun, the negro has lagged behind other races in the march of civilization, at least for once in his history he has, in this country, the privilege of using climatic advantages and developing under new conditions.

Train used to start at nine, and lag along round by Springfield, and get into the old Twenty-sixth Street Station here at six in the morning, where they let you sleep as long as you liked.

Were we a few degrees more southward, I would show you landscapes of rock and mountainof bays, and hillsides sprinkled with verdureof tumbling whales, and lazy fishermen, and distant cottages, and lagging sailssuch as would make a figure even in pages that the bright eye of lady might love to read.

Amid the incessant interruptions necessary to a lesson, the piano never lagged a second either in stopping or in going on again.

Only let me say that here we may seem to lag a stage behind the Government of India themselvesso little violent are webecause that Government say, in their despatch"On all ordinary occasions we are ready to dispense with an official majority in the Imperial Legislative Council, and to rely on the public spirit of non-official members to enable us to carry on the ordinary work of legislation."

When they did turn, Bud was lagging a step or two behind.

She shortly after left the stage without waiting to "lag superfluous" there.

Sunburned and anxious faces yearned toward it from the dizzy, swaying tops of stage-coaches, from lagging teams far below, from the blinding white canvas covers of "mountain schooners," and from scorching saddles that seemed to weigh down the scrambling, sweating animals beneath.

Sieur Frowenfel', iv I tra to tell de sto'y of Bras-Coupé, I goin' to cry lag a lill bebby.

and I lagged our way unwillingly out to work againrusty of muscles, with a feeling that the heat would now surely be unendurable and the work impossibly hard.

530 I never saw aught like to them, Unless perchance it were Brown skeletons of leaves that lag My forest-brook along; When the ivy-tod is heavy with snow, 535 And the owlet whoops to the wolf below, That eats the she-wolf's young.' 'Dear Lord!

"'Sieur Frowenfel'," said Aurora, leaning her head on one side, "some pipple thing it is doze climade; 'ow you lag doze climade?"

26 collocations for  lag