lazy-pated

Updated: May 12, 2025

Is this the sort of stuff ye trust in?" He set one foot against our Major's wall an action scarcely honest while it was so green and, coming from a hale and very thickset man, the contemptuous push sent a fathom of it outward. Rattle, rattle went the new patent concrete, starting up the lazy-pated fellows down below. "You'll try the walls of a jail," cried one.

R. D. (Richard Doddridge) Blackmore - Erema — My Father's Sin