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• But such was the natural energy of Affiffi, that when he was set to work beside the slow, dilatory, and stupid native workmen, he became greatly irritated. —  James Nasmyth: Engineer, An Autobiography.
• If some commander--perhaps of a regiment only--has been dilatory, the whole movement is delayed. —  The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No 3, September 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy
• I should have liked to have pushed on to some considerable distance at once; but the habits of the country are dilatory, and one must conform to them. —  Narrative of a Mission to Central Africa Performed in the Years 1850-51, Volume 1 Under the Orders and at the Expense of Her Majesty's Government
• The clerk was dilatory, and the Duke remonstrated. —  William of Germany
• Doubtless those who blame him as dilatory, here blame him as precipitate, for they judge according to appearance and consequence All his delay after this is plainly compelled, although I grant he was not sorry to have to await such more presentable evidence as at last he procured, so long as he did not lose the final possibility of vengeance Footnote 4: This is the sole reference in the interview to the murder. —  The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark A Study with the Text of the Folio of 1623

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