When the individual interest begins to lack, work, which is sorrow and pain, lags and does not produce.

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.

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.

Soon as they reach The insulting boaster, his false courage fails, Behind he lags, doomed to the fatal noose, 80 His master's hate, and scorn of all the field.

The footman lags behind to tipple ale and wine, And goes gallop, a gallop, a gallop, to make up his time.

The first three books are by far the best; and judging by the way the interest lags and the allegory grows incomprehensible, it is perhaps as well for Spenser's reputation that the other eighteen books remained a dream.

Necessarily it lags some years behind.

The result is that the intellectual life both of the army and of the navy lags far behind that of their German rivals, and therefore that there is every chance of both of them being beaten, not for lack of courage or hard work, but by being opposed to an adversary whose thinking has been better done by reason of the greater concentration of energy devoted to it.

Phr. superfluous lags the veteran on the stage

They goad the poor wretch on this raw sore with a sharp-pointed stick when he lags, or when they think he needs stirring up.

Compared with the speed of its flight, The tempest itself lags behind, And the swift-winged arrows of light.

Now kindred Merit fills the sable bier, Now lacerated Friendship claims a tear; 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.

The established law can seldom keep pace with this inner development, this growth of moral consciousness; it lags behind.

From morning till evening she knits and sings, While ever the pendulum tireless swings The moments around, with its tick and stroke, Nor hastes for the festal, nor lags for the yoke.

It is sadly true of the labor movement, as of all other movements for social advance, that it lags behind the movements organized for material success and private profit.

It lags behind because it lacks money, money which would keep more trained workers in the field, which would procure needed information, which would prevent that bitterest of defeats, losing a strike because the strikers could no longer hold out against starvation.

"Forth to his business when the Whirlwind sallies, He is all alive to get it done; He on his pathway never lags nor dallies; But is ever up, and on the run.

Prizes would be for lags of slowest pace, Were cripples made the judges of the race.

Strike, Frenchmen, strike; that's all my mind!' 'A curse on him who lags behind!' Quoth gallant Oliver; and so Down dash the Frenchmen on the foe. . . .

The play of incident, on the one hand the ship's amazing crew and on the other the lovers, gives a story in which the interest never lags and which demonstrates anew what a master of his art Mr. London is.

The latter lags out, nauseated with the world.]

Those who have visited the Town Hall of Calcutta, and who retain a recollection of the brilliance of its re-unions, with all their gay variety of concert, opera, and acted charade, cannot help seeing that Bombay lags very far behind; it is, therefore, unwise to provoke comparisons, and the society here should rather pride itself upon what it will do, than upon what it has done.

PANSLAVISM, the name given to a movement for union of all the Slavonic races in one nationality, a project which lags heavily owing to the jealousy on the part of one section or another.

Expression generally lags behind thought, and we are now more than ever handicapped by the lack of convenient terms to describe the new discoveries, and new ways of thinking and feeling by which our lives are enriched and made interesting.

In New Zealand the English conditions are reversed; the municipal lags far behind the central authority on the path of experiment.