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Could any thranx authority move at more than a sluggard's pace, no matter the incidental circumstances?

Diuturnity's Dawn Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 2002

Could any thranx authority move at more than a sluggard's pace, no matter the incidental circumstances?

Diuturnity's Dawn Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 2002

And so, wearily and little by little, but surely and steadily on the whole, was brought home to the young boy, for the first time, the meaning of his life — that it was no fool's or sluggard's paradise into which he had wandered by chance, but a battlefield ordained from of old, where there are no spectators, but the youngest must take his side, and the stakes are life and death.

Tom Brown's Schooldays Hughes, Thomas, 1822-1896 1971

The heart is like the sluggard's field, -- so overgrown with weeds that you can scarce see the good corn.

Of the Mortification of Sin in Believers 1616-1683 1967

Feel disordered. 8 o'Clock, 3 1/2 Hours after Sun rise, is a sluggard's rising Time.

John Adams diary 5, 26 May - 25 November 1760 1961

Unless all this is well done the soil fails to produce much; the sluggard's garden has always been a by-word and a reproach.

Lessons on Soil E. J. Russell

Weeds will be troublesome to the overworked and the idle gardener, while the best-kept land will be full of seeds blown upon it from the sluggard's garden, and the first shower will bring them up in terrific force.

The Culture of Vegetables and Flowers From Seeds and Roots 16th Edition Sutton and Sons

Unfortunately, they use their wings freely, and so travel from the sluggard's garden to find 'fresh woods and pastures new.'

The Culture of Vegetables and Flowers From Seeds and Roots 16th Edition Sutton and Sons

But no sluggard's peace; his arms are folded, not for idleness, only to repress certain vain tremors and vainer sighs.

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 54, No. 333, July 1843 Various

And so, wearily and little by little, but surely and steadily on the whole, was brought home to the young boy, for the first time, the meaning of his life: that it was no fool's or sluggard's paradise into which he had wandered by chance, but a battle-field ordained from of old, where there are no spectators, but the youngest must take his side, and the stakes are life and death.

MacMillan's Reading Books Book V Anonymous