busily-disposed

Updated: May 15, 2025

They have made a heap in the drawing-room of the furniture and books, to set first fire to; and are tearing up the floor for its more easily kindled planks, the less busily-disposed meanwhile hacking round in rage, with axes, and smashing what they can with butt-ends of guns.

John Ruskin - The Queen of the Air : Being a Study of the Greek Myths of Cloud and Storm