Long before the senior year he had allured a chosen band about him who shared his eager aspiration for war, and when the other fellows dawdled in society or wrangled in debate, these young Alexanders set their tents in the college campus and fought the campaigns of Frederick or Napoleon over again.

But as for reading, sir, it's all very well for me, who have been a keeper and dawdled about like a gentleman with a gun over my arm; but did you ever do a good day's farm-work in your life?

It was worth a year of dawdling over text-books.

" "They tell me," vouchsafed a lanky boy dawdling with his axe at a chip pile, "that the word goes in Cottonville now, that he's took money and lit out for Canada.

Alas for sonnetting, 'tis as the nerves are; all the summer I was dawdling among green lanes, and verses came as thick as fancies.

It would not do to let the sheep spread and dawdle at their drovers' pleasure.

Finally January was gone, and February, that sawed-off month, was dawdling along its way toward that great occasion which gives it its chief excuse for being on the calendarWashington's Birthday.

" Kate was dawdling on the lawn as the two returned to the house.

"I just dawdled through my dressing to kill time.

" They had counted a great deal on the Fairford dinner as a means of tranquillization, and it was a blow to detect signs of the opposite result when, late the next morning, their daughter came dawdling into the sodden splendour of the Stentorian breakfast-room.

But I ought not to be dawdling like this, with half my patients to see.

"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.

"We are dawdling by this fountain," I said.

Here's Helen Heath been dawdling round the table all the morning for the sake of chatting to her while she breakfasts.

They are not encouraged to work more than eight hours a day; but as what they get depends on what they do, they do not dawdle during those hours, and if one man in a group should prove a loafer, his comrades, who have to suffer for his laziness, soon get rid of him.

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

Fortunes and reputations are not made in dawdling beside a mountain stream, or watching the play of sunlight and shadow on a green hill-side; unless, indeed, one were a new Wordsworth, and even then fortune and renown are not quickly made.