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They had, after weeks of procrastination, surrendered to the inevitable. It was when they could no longer stand out against the common enemy Tranquillity! Lord Deppingham and Bobby Browne suffered in silence; they even looked longingly toward the bungalow for the relief that it contained and refused to extend. Lady Deppingham and Mrs. Browne should not be misunderstood by the reader.
Procrastination is often but giving heed to her treacherous voice, and ere we are aware, she carries us captive. As we receive our increase from the hand of God, like faithful stewards, we should set apart the portion belonging to others without delay.
The essay upon Murder Considered as One of the Fine Arts is the best example of his humor. This selection is one of the most whimsical: "For, if once a man indulges himself in murder, very soon he come, to think little of robbing; and from robbing he comes next to drinking and Sabbath breaking, and from that to incivility and procrastination.
Meanwhile he piteously bewailed his unhappy lot; sighed and shed tears copiously; and said, with a last impulse of vanity, "What a musician the world will lose!" While he thus in cowardly procrastination delayed the inevitable end, a messenger, whom Phaon had ordered to bring news from Rome, arrived with papers. These Nero eagerly seized and read.
If she can cook his meals decently and keep his buttons sewed on and doesn't nag him he will think that life is a pretty comfortable affair. And that reminds me, I saw holes in your black lace stockings yesterday. Better go and darn them at once. 'Procrastination is the thief of time." Sara cannot understand. Blanche Lawrence was married yesterday to Ted Martin.
"By jiminy, it looks that way to me," said Jiminy Gordon emphatically. "It's procrastination that " "Whoops! Hi! what was that word? Ho, ho, say it again, Bruce," shouted Romper Ryan hilariously. "He's worked for months on that Boys' Life Dictionary Contest," said Ray Martin, "that's what's the matter with Bruce. What does it mean? Maybe it's something to eat!"
"I must rather beware," returned the noble, "how I sacrifice the last hope of my country and the main support of religion by procrastination and criminal hesitation. If I refuse the crown, I disband my party. Men will leave us, and say we tremble, and before long we are at the tender mercies of the tyrant, for my resignation, while striking terror into our ranks, will infuse new courage into his.
He shrugged philosophic shoulders. After all, why should she trouble herself further with so dull a dog? Man-like he did not realize the difficulties that beset even a sagacious-headed daughter of song and dance in the matter of literary composition, and the temptation to postpone from day to day the grappling with them, until the original impulse has spent itself through sheer procrastination.
Here, at all events, the usual symptoms of hesitancy and procrastination were absent. Swift resolve and thoroughness marked the disintegrating action by which they unwittingly prepared the battlefields of the future.
And I was there just now when one of his men came in and told him you were on your way up from the gunshop down there." "So they're watching me, eh? 'Gad, this is fine!" He lost no time in getting to the hotel. A well-remembered, fierce-looking little man in a white linen suit was waiting for him on the great piazza. Baron Jasto Dangloss was a polite man but not to the point of procrastination.
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