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1. Talk is desultory … Jeremy mentions a couple of times how happy Stephen and Liz appeared to be at the party and how very pleased he is that Stephen has found someone at long last
2. For the most part, our guards seemed wrapped-up in a cloak of desultory boredom
3. thirst, the two men started a desultory conversation comparing the
4. The gal answered the phone with a desultory, “Hello, Hustle Herald front desk, can I hep ya?”
5. Captain Stewart had intimated to Prempeh that he must tender his submission on Monday, January 20th but on Sunday there was a distant desultory drumming, and Ashantis became more scarce in the town
6. Not certain of the strength of the force, the Spaniards fired only a few desultory volleys, but as the vanguard came unseen down the road, the captive war balloon was sent bobbing along in the very advance, just over the tree-tops
7. The battle subsided into a desultory picket fire at sunset
8. After a few more minutes of desultory chit-chat the Adj came in
9. Desultory argument ensued, with the pair of them half-heartedly disputing the laurel crown of good-natured invective
10. There was some desultory conversation then, but I ignored it, half in and half out of the world for some reason
11. After a few minutes of desultory sparring Con stopped
12. From above, Stoat afforded him a desultory clap of applause, while Weasel simply shook his head, as if he saw such wonders of agility everyday
13. Denis Hood made another, rather desultory attempt at potting a ball, which hit several cushions before finally coming to rest on the green baize as far from a pocket as it had started
14. Our only contact was at our desultory rehearsals, which we went through mechanically and as swiftly as we could
15. He picked absently at a slice of fruit for another twenty minutes, making desultory conversation with his sister
16. Possibly they are crowded out by other interests, possibly bits of desultory information satisfy for the moment; and there is always the gradual adoption of reticence which takes place as children grow older
17. Whatever it was, it simmered to some purpose, for he grew more and more discontented with his desultory life, began to long for some real and earnest work to go at, soul and body, and finally came to the wise conclusion that everyone who loved music was not a composer
18. As for the latter, one was sleeping soundly and the other lying awake occupied with his desultory thoughts, when daylight came to them bringing with it the desire to rise; for the lazy down was never a delight to Don Quixote, victor or vanquished
19. She wiped him in a desultory fashion, and went upstairs, returning immediately with his shifting-trousers
20. The trees were the same species as those I’d hiked past often on the trail, but the forest felt different, desultory and somehow darker, in spite of the intermittent expansive views
21. What selfevident enigma pondered with desultory constancy during 30 years did Bloom now, having effected natural obscurity by the extinction of artificial light, silently suddenly comprehend?
22. Maria was reserved when he picked her up from work that evening, and their conversation was desultory
23. At the market on the green, shivering traders did desultory business with a few preoccupied customers
24. It was mid-afternoon, but there were a dozen or so desultory drinkers sitting on benches
25. He seemed to be at ease, talking in a desultory way with the others while they all worked
26. It was after tea on a summer evening, and the conversation, which had roamed in a desultory, spasmodic fashion from golf clubs to the causes of the change in the obliquity of the ecliptic, came round at last to the question of atavism and hereditary aptitudes
27. He spent years and years in desultory studies, undertakings, and meditations; he began to evince considerable indifference to social forms and observances
28. His conduct during these first weeks had been desultory beyond description
29. They make it no farther than the next corner, the desultory bodega whose plywood shelves always seem to contain exactly three of everything
30. I trust I may be excused for desiring an interval of complete freedom from such distractions as have been hitherto inevitable, and especially from guests whose desultory vivacity makes their presence a fatigue
31. Hawley's disgust at the notion of the "Pioneer" being edited by an emissary, and of Brooke becoming actively political—as if a tortoise of desultory pursuits should protrude its small head ambitiously and become rampant—was hardly equal to the annoyance felt by some members of Mr
32. There was a security station to his left, two desultory guards inspecting bags and packages
33. They were allowed to stay there, living under desultory guard in a copra barn, for about ten days; the Japanese commander then decided that they were a nuisance, and put them on the road to Seremban
34. Our client appeared to have taken fresh heart at the little glimpse of hope which had been presented to him, and he even broke into a desultory chat with me over his business affairs
35. Yet, as the whole has been cited, and made the basis of desultory declamation, I thought it not time lost to clear out of the way all irrelevant matter, and to leave for distinct examination the only sentence of this paragraph in which the insult lurks, if it has any existence in this letter
36. A desultory debate took place on these various questions
37. A desultory debate of two or three hours took place on the resolution
38. She was the center of attraction; she had found a mission—not a desultory one, but one far-reaching in scope, so it seemed to her; and like a war-horse, she was after the charge
39. This resolution produced a long desultory debate, which occupied the House the whole of the day, without coming to any decision upon it
40. To the adoption of the first clause of this resolution, there was no objection made by any one; but a desultory debate took place on incidental points and on the merits of the last clause
41. Bibb;) he therefore hoped the House would pardon him for the desultory and confused remarks which he should impose upon the patience of the House
42. Stow rose and said, that the respect he felt for the House, seemed to forbid that he should propose to them any thing not fully matured: but, that at the same time the objections to one section of the bill under consideration, appeared to him so many and so important, that he could not refrain from urging them, though as he feared in somewhat of an irregular and desultory way
43. Considerable desultory debate took place on these propositions; but the committee rose without coming to any decision thereon, and obtained leave to sit again
44. Chairman: I have a very few, very desultory, and I fear very unimportant observations to make on the subject now before the committee
45. When an American vessel is at sea, it is amenable to no laws but those of its own country and the laws of nations; and where, in either of these, will the advocates for impressment find their justification? Sir, had not the practice of impressment been treated as a casual, a trivial circumstance, during this debate, I should not have presumed to trouble the House with my desultory remarks; and my principal object in addressing the House, was to ask their attention to a document which appears to have been overlooked, and which, if necessary, will place the abomination of that practice in colors too strong to be mistaken
46. A desultory debate of two hours took place on it, in the course of which a motion was made by Mr