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His boot is always spurred, and his hand ensigned with the riding-whip. Aside from this he is known by his bearing his frankness and firmness." Furthermore he is a man of eminent leisureliness, which Van Buren accounts for as follows: "Nature is unloosed of her stays there; she is not crowded for time; the word haste is not in her vocabulary.
A man's figure, thick-set and lounging, was sauntering towards her along the sand. He seemed to move with extreme leisureliness, yet his approach was but a matter of seconds. His hands were in his pockets, his hat rammed down over his eyes. There seemed to her to be something vaguely familiar about him, though wherein it lay she could not have told.
And I rather envy them, you know. I'm afraid I don't." "Don't what?" "Don't do anything. Unless you can call this sort of thing doing something." He waved his hand vaguely round his perfectly arranged room. Jack said nothing. He was inclined to be a little strenuous himself in some ways, and he had always been conscious of a faint annoyance with Dick's extreme leisureliness.
He who has God for his Deliverer has no occasion to 'go out with haste. So, with strange and majestic leisureliness, the escaping prisoner is bid to put on his shoes and gird himself. No doubt, he cast many a scrutinising glance at the four sleeping legionaries whom a heedless movement might have wakened.
Last of all he shook hands with Barebone. "Sleep on it," he said. "Nothing like sleeping on a question. I am staying at 'The Black Sailor. See you to-morrow." He had come, had transacted his business and gone, all in less than an hour, with an extraordinary leisureliness almost amounting to indolence. He had lounged into the house, and now he departed without haste or explanation.
But we already have a considerable and increasing number of people who can command their own time if we have not a leisure class, and the sociologist might begin to study the effect of this leisureliness upon society.
The Infante's voice was so cold, his mien so resolute that the legate despaired of conquering his purpose. Abruptly he capitulated, even as the halters went about the necks of his two cherished lads. "Stop!" he screamed. "Bid them stop! The curse shall be lifted." Affonso Henriques opened the window with a leisureliness which to the legate seemed to belong to the realm of nightmare.
"I wish to say, right here," he began, with a rasping leisureliness, "that I hope no member of this honoured body will take my remarks as personal or unparliamentary but" he raised a big forefinger and shook it with menace at the presiding officer, at the same time suddenly lifting his voice to an unprintable shriek "I say to you, sir, that the song of the siren has been heard in the land, and the call of Delilah has been answered!
There is a leisureliness about the seeming habit of existence on the Continent that does not pertain in America, and one felt the flavor of it quite as much in the presence of this great worker as among those people who from our stand-point seem never really to work at all.
Let men and women immersed in the throng of daily toil, young men, busy men, understand that Christ's peace is for those who hear the bugle note of duty summoning them to arise, and go hence. That the chief evidence of this peace is in the leisureliness of the heart. Christ's possession of peace was very evident through all the stormy scenes that followed.
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