tardy-gaited
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And chide the cripple, tardy-gaited night
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- Slow-moving; sluggish. The cripple tardy-gaited night, Who, like a foul and ugly witch, doth limp So tediously away. Shak., Hen. V., iv., Prol., l. 20.
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And chide the cripple tardy-gaited night,
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And chide the cripple, tardy-gaited night
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