7 Verbs to Use for the Word sluggard

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.

Strange, unwonted sounds saluted the ears of the early risers and awakened the sluggards in Lexington that Monday morning.

On the opposite bank of the arroyo was a line of heads, like those of infantry above a parapet, and she comprehended that, in the same way that news of a cock-fight travels, the gallery gods of Little Rivers had received a tip of a sporting event so phenomenal that it changed the sluggards among them into early risers.

John Bull, however, has not yet awakened sufficiently to listen to his overtures, but sits up in bed, dolefully rubbing his eyes, and bemoaning the evanishment of his protectionist dream altogether realising tolerably, he and his land, Dr. Watts' well- known moral song concerning the sluggard and his garden.

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

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.

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

7 Verbs to Use for the Word  sluggard