Instead of getting at her husband's point of view and enjoying with him, at least sometimes, she insists on acting the martyr because he will not dawdle around and gush at her feet.

Trifle, dally, dawdle, potter.

"Well," said she, "it's quite certain that one won't be able to dawdle in bed, and that one won't have warm milk given one to drink before getting up.

And so she told him that he must have supper, and that he must let her go; and there was a sweet tinge of motherly authority in her wordsunconsciously to her, arbitrary and unconsciously to him, submissiveand she left him to smoke upon the broad porch, and dawdle in the chair he remembered so well, and talk with the bright Louisa.

She discovered, indeed, that her mother was a partial, ill-judging parent, a dawdle, a slattern, who neither taught nor restrained her children, whose house was the scene of mismanagement and discomfort from beginning to end, and who had no talent, no conversation, no affection towards herself; no curiosity to know her better, no desire of her friendship, and no inclination for her company that could lessen her sense of such knowledge.

Charing Cross is the last place to dawdle in if you have any objection to being recognized.

The latter gave the reins to a black, one who was no longer a slave, but who was a descendant of some of the ancient slaves of the Pratts, and in that character consented still to dawdle about the place, working for half price.

And so you dawdle on, looking at this and that new and odd sight, but most of all feasting your eyes on the beauty of the northern mountains, till you reach the gentle rise on which stands, eight miles from Port of Spain, the little city of San Josef.

He called me up to the front, and very politely asked me to help in hustling along the carriers who were inclined to dawdle as the way grew rougher, and, although I would much rather have had the task of helping the two girls, I had to accept the position without demur.

Thus I should not be obliged to treat every fresh view as if it were a bird on the wing, but could dawdle as long as I pleased over this or that object without being a trouble to anybody.

I know when I may dawdle and when I may not." THE COCK AND THE JEWEL A Cock, scratching the ground for something to eat, turned up a Jewel that had by chance been dropped there.

The little hands will no longer serve Satan by striking or pinching; the little feet will not kick or stamp, nor drag and dawdle, when they ought to run briskly on some errand; the little lips will not pout; the little tongue will not move to say a naughty thing.

You like better to take your time, and so you dawdle, and do things in an idle way, especially what you do not much like doing.

At camping to-night everyone was chilled and we guessed a cold snap, but to our surprise the actual temperature was higher than last night, when we could dawdle in the sun.

I'd rather have my men hump themselves for nine hours than dawdle for ten.

In the first place, he let me come up here to dawdle about, doing nothing, when I ought to have been down there helping him get more of that treasure.

There are certain things in us which we know to be sloppywe lie in bed, we dawdle, we eat too much, we moon over our work.

Our hide and tallow trade is only good; the Russians have monopolized the fur trade; we continue to raise cattle and horses because it would be an exertion to suppress them; and meanwhile we dawdle away our lives very pleasurably, whilst a magnificent territory, filled with gold and richer still in soil, lies idle beneath our feet.

Thence she hastens home to rest and dawdle until the hour arrives for luncheon, to which meal she has invited the youth who happens to be temporarily dancing attendance upon her, for it is understood in many houses that luncheon is an open meal for which no formal invitation from a parent is necessary.

I go into a few more shops: I dawdle over some china.

When it comes, I try to dawdle over it as much as possible, to sip my tea with labored slowness, and bite each mouthful with conscientious care.

Five minutes ago he seemed willing enough to dawdle on till midnight.

I am stooping to pick a little posy of violets as these languid thoughts dawdle through my mindblue mysteries of sweetness and color, born of the unscented, dull earth.

She ought to be punctual, she knew; but it was all so wonderful, and refined, and old-world, in her charming room, she felt inclined to dawdle and look around.

"Young gentlemen persuade young ladies to do the most imprudent thingssaunter about in the cold after skating, and dawdle under trees, and then wonder when they catch cold.