A position more dispiriting can scarcely be imagined; and to all these causes for despondency were added the incompetency and fatuity of the Indian government, and the procrastination of the home government in the forwarding of the necessary reinforcements.

This compliance and promptitude, however, was not in harmony with the sinister views of Gersíwaz, for he foresaw that the very fact of answering the call immediately would show that some misrepresentation had been practised, and consequently it was his business now to promote procrastination, and an appearance of evasive delay.

She could delay no longer; the bridle had been shifted and reshifted to the last second of procrastination.

"I have long promised myself the pleasure of a call, and in spite of many procrastinations at last have accomplished my ambition.

But procrastination is my besetting sin; and the idea of parting with them was so painful, that I have deferred and deferred it.

The President was obliged to retire McClellan from his command when, in August, 1862, that general's procrastination could no longer be endured.

Quintus Fabius was a man advanced in years, of a deliberation and firmness, which to not a few seemed procrastination and obstinacy.

Which, indeed, she did,and her bonnet rivalled the coiffures of Paris in brilliancy and procrastination; for it never came in sight till long after its little mistress.

Yet there were other hours when she put her procrastinations down to sheer cowardice.

"So," said I, as he seated himself on the bench, and shook the rain from his old broad-brimmed hat, "you see, old boy, 'Procrastination is the thief of time;' the clouds gave you a hint of what was coming, but you seemed not to take it."

Procrastination has been my curse since I was in leading-strings.

When about five years of age, I was sent to a parish school in Roxburghshire, and procrastination went with me.

Now, sir, I am also a bashful man, and, as I was saying, bashfulness is one of the blood relations which procrastination has fastened upon me.

For this, too, am I indebted to procrastination.

It was the first time I had been compelled to walk trembling for a night without shelter, or to sit frozen on a threshold; and this, too, I owe to procrastination.

For, sir, you must be aware there is a pleasure in procrastination, of a nature the most alluring and destructive; but it is a pleasure purchased by the sacrifice of judgment: in its nature and results it resembles the happiness of the drunkard; for, in exact ratio as our spirits are raised above their proper level, in the same proportion, when the ardent effects have evaporated, they sink beneath that level.

Here the victim of procrastination finished his narrative.

The miserable old man was conveyed, in a state of insensibility, to St. Bartholomew's Hospital, where I visited him the next day: he seemed to suffer much, and in a few hours he died with a shudder, and the word procrastination on his tongue.

In spite, however, of this procrastination I wish it to be understood that the story is in some ways one of unusual charm; it has style, atmosphere and a very sensible dignity.

Now, anxious as I was to change my quarters, it so happened, owing to a series of petty procrastinations and accidents, that nearly a week elapsed before my bargain was made and my letter of recall on the wing to Tom; and, in the meantime, a trifling adventure or two had occurred to your humble servant, which, absurd as they now appear, diminished by distance, did certainly at the time serve to whet my appetite for change considerably.

He was habituated to triumph; it had been his lot to come, to see, and to conquer; even the procrastination of certain success was intolerable to him; his energetic volition could not endure a check.

In general, redress is easily obtained without unnecessary procrastination, and with little or no cost.

"You have been slack," I told myself, "and weak; You have done foolishly, from wilful choice; Sloth and procrastination" Here my voice Broke in a squeak.

Then the gardeners, impatient at his procrastinations, themselves began to read the labels fastened to the pots they were carrying in.

" As soon as Baker was gone she began to bemoan her weak procrastination, and begged her father's pardon for her presumption in taking the matter out of his hands.