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There's a face in the world and you go after it, heels in air, tongue frozen, breathing always an emptiness that chokes. Easy for sleepers to dawdle with words and say carelessly life is this, life is that. What the hell's the difference what life is? It means nothing to me. People and their posturings mean nothing. But what about now?
"Not I, sir, what d'ye mean? what right have I to your notes?" "Nay, but Dawdle, come." "By no means; it looks like the abuse of good-nature; all the world knows you're good-natured to a fault." "Come, dear Davy, you shall you must oblige me." Thus urged, Dawdle accepted the bank-note with great reluctance, and restored the idea to the right owner.
The fact is, my whole business in life for the last year has been to find her out." "You haven't dawdled so much, then, as people suppose?" "No; that's all very well to throw people off a fellow's scent; but you know me well enough, Dacres; and we didn't dawdle much in South America, did we?" "That's true, my boy; but as to this lady, what is it that makes it so hard for you to find her?
We recognize his credentials." "You're a fool, Matthews," the judge told him. "Jake was smarter than half the rest of Legal Lobby before he went native. Still can tie your tail to a can. Okay, let's start things. I'm too old to dawdle." Doc lost track of most of what happened.
"That you may easily do with your knowledge of the city and your wide circle of friends." "But we need you. We want you to be with us, and I think it most unnatural in you to leave us alone." "I have taken no oath to dawdle around Europe indefinitely. I propose to return to New York and go into business." "You have enough and more than enough already." "I certainly have had enough of idleness."
As to weather, again, I should say the worse the weather the better the exercise of a brisk walk; and my wise mother shall see that her girls do not dawdle about in-doors, but get a good tramp under all skies as a part of the habits of life.
Picturesqueness and quaintness are not at all lacking, but there are no noble cathedrals, no vast museums of art and antiquity, no snow-clad mountains. There is a charm of light and shade and color that is to be absorbed slowly rather than swallowed at a single gulp. It is emphatically a place in which to dawdle.
We did not have to wait long for Ali Baba, Mujrim, and the camels, for they had not been fools enough to dawdle, with a hundred and fifty balked freebooters within rifle-shot, whose resilient pride was likely to breed anger.
If you go to college, young man, you have got to be in earnest, too. You have got to say to yourself, "I am going to make more out of what is in me than any man with like ability ever did before." You cannot dawdle remember that.
Dr. John Hinchliffe. A kind of nick-name given to Mrs. Thrale's eldest daughter, whose name being Esther, she might be assimilated to a Queen. Mr. Thrale. In Johnson's Dictionary is neither dawling nor dawdling. He uses dawdle, post, June 3, 1781. Miss Burney shews how luxurious a table Mr. Thrale kept. Mme. D'Arblay's Diary, i. 211. Yet when Mr.
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