" "Aye, sluggard boy; there is work to do betwixt us."

Then he said aloud, "Here I grow fat like a stall-fed ox and all my manliness departeth from me while I become a sluggard and dolt.

Come, come, Idonea, We must not part,I have measured many a league When these old limbs had need of rest,and now I will not play the sluggard.

Soft living makes a sluggard of the hardiest knight, and steals away his strength.

[It]; lubber, lubbard^; slow coach &c (slow.) 275; opium eater, lotus eater; slug; lag^, sluggard, slugabed; slumberer, dormouse, marmot; waiter on Providence, fruges consumere natus

The sluggard and the self-indulgent can have no knowledge of Truth.

He fought his paper single-handed; trusting no one, for he was something of a cynic; up early and down late, for he was nothing of a sluggard; daily earwigging influential men, for he was a master of ingratiation.

Punctuate the following: Go to the ant thou sluggard consider her ways and be wise.

He says, "go to the ant, thou sluggard, consider her ways, and be wise."

["Go to the ant, thou sluggard; consider her ways, and be wise!"

The hour when society, however late it may keep its revels overnight, is apt to awaken, were it only to call for a cup of strong tea and to turn again on the pillow of lassitude, after that refreshment, like the sluggard of Holy Writ.

It was like the 'sluggard's garden,' where 'the thorn and the thistle grow higher and higher.'

But then no "impositions" threaten the modern sluggard, even if he neglects chapel altogether.

THE OLD LADY'S RESTORATION A DELICATE AFFAIR PUPASSE LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS "WALKING AWAY WITH A SHRUG OF THE SHOULDERS" "WHERE IS THAT IDIOT, THAT DOLT, THAT SLUGGARD, THAT SNAIL, WITH MY MAIL?" CHAMPIGNY "I WEPT, I WEPT, I WEPT" "HER HEART DROVE HER TO THE WINDOW" "ALL THAT DAY WAS DESPONDENCY, DEJECTION"

"But where is that idiot, that dolt, that sluggard, that snail, with my mail?" Honorine, busy in the breakfast-room:

[Illustration: "WHERE IS THAT IDIOT, THAT DOLT, THAT SLUGGARD, THAT SNAIL, WITH MY MAIL?"] "In a moment, husband.

What a sluggard you are!

"And also now the sluggard soundest slept.

The happy wanderer, selecting a grassy dell or convenient shady tree with a clear spring or dancing rivulet near by, invokes the tiffin coolie, and if a duly watchful eye has been kept upon that incorrigible sluggard, in short space the contents of the basket deck the sward.

"139] [Illustration: The Sluggard King Journeying156]

The rugged Tyrant no Denial takes; At his Command th' unwilling Sluggard wakes.

Seas, even when calmest, were to become terrible, and men's heart-beats, a bit sluggish with the fatty degeneration of a sluggard peace, to quicken and then to throb with the rat-a-tat-tat, the rat-a-tat-tat of the most peremptory, the most reverberating call to arms in the history of the world.

Often the mid-day meal would be smoking on the table while Peters would smoke in the bed, and Roxdal, with his head thrust through the folding doors that separated the bedroom from the sitting-room, would be adjuring the sluggard to arise and shake off his slumbers, and threatening to sit down without him, lest the dinner be spoilt.

5. Through their not stirring up themselves, and shaking off that spirit of laziness and drowsiness, when it first seizeth upon them; but, with the sluggard, yet another slumber, and another sleep, and a folding of the hands to sleep.

I dared do no more; the aspect of the place would have rejoiced the very soul of Solomon's sluggard of olda few cabbages and weeds innumerable filled the neglected looking enclosure, and I ventured no further than the entrance into its most uninviting precincts.