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  • Here's a recipe I recently adapted from The Indolent Gourmet:

    Avocado Pie, Thesis Defense, Oh, My! Sarah Lenz 2008

  • However, because I'm the brave gastronant that I am, I've fallen in love with Clara's The Indolent Gourmet.

    Avocado Pie, Thesis Defense, Oh, My! Sarah Lenz 2008

  • However, because I'm the brave gastronant that I am, I've fallen in love with Clara's The Indolent Gourmet.

    Archive 2008-04-01 Sarah Lenz 2008

  • Here's a recipe I recently adapted from The Indolent Gourmet:

    Archive 2008-04-01 Sarah Lenz 2008

  • However, we were having some minor problems with our Payment System, which have demoralized us and caused a lot of predicament to us that are Inexplicable, which have also held us stranded and Indolent, not having the Perseverance and Aspiration to devote our 100% Assiduity in Accrediting Foreign Contract Payments.

    4 mochas - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008

  • Indolent tumors might make up half of all breast tumors.

    The Verdict's Still Out 2007

  • Indolent, wilful, picturesque, and singularly pretty was her aspect - prettier than usual, as if some soft inward emotion - stirred who knows how?

    Shirley, by Charlotte Bronte 2004

  • Indolent by disposition and indulgence, he makes very short stages in his ordinary travels, rarely moving more than from eight to twelve miles in the day, and this he does so leisurely and quietly, that he neither becomes excited nor heated, and consequently does not experience that excessive thirst, which is produced by the active exertions or violent exercise of the

    An account of the manners and customs of the Aborigines and the state of their relations with Europeans, by Edward John Eyre 2004

  • Indolent as a sleek jungle cat sunning himself in the sweltering heat that she was finding unbearable, Tariq surveyed her.

    The Arabian Mistress Graham, Lynne 2001

  • Indolent satisfaction darkened the gleam in his eyes as he traced her cheekbone and jaw with a caressing finger.

    Silver Wings, Santiago Blue Janet Dailey 1984

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