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dally
1. May I be a pleasant one of her friends for you to dally with now and then
2. Since the news he brought was distressing, and he wasn’t strongly attracted to her, he decided not to dally
3. They laugh and dally
4. I cannot dally, for who knows
5. “Let us not dally here,” said Drumtone
6. While Peter Dally and Joan Gomez (1979) have found that issues of
7. In either case, don't dally; make that
8. Will ye play, then? Will ye dally
9. Buddy informed Brad that he should not dally because there was a squall line headed for the beach, and they needed to land before it hit
10. “Dilly Dally Shilly Shally, Cloud
11. But I’ve recovered, and I can’t dally anymore
12. Still, the air conditioning lessened the burden, and it gave him all the excuse he needed not to dally on specifics
13. 'Let's go back to the station and call Dally
14. 'We don't always get what we expect in this life, Rafferty,' Sam Dally replied laconically
15. But he wasn't really in the mood for their usual banter and Dally was, anyway, impervious to insults
16. Talk about Dally by name and dally by blooming nature
17. At least Dally had finally admitted it
18. Struck by it and then promptly forgotten about it, until Dally had remarked on it
19. But there'd been no trace of optical glass under or around the body and, according to Sam Dally, no struggle either
20. By a curious irony, Whittaker might be a dedicated and respected psychiatrist, but, according to Sam Dally, as a researcher, he was singularly inept
21. In his experience, anything was possible and Sam Dally had said a woman could have murdered the girl
22. 'If you doubt my word' – by the tone of voice, it was apparent that he thought the idea absurd – 'you can ask your own police surgeon, Dally
23. As though to drive the fact of the impenetrable alibi more forcefully home, Sam Dally, their own police surgeon, was a prominent witness—one amongst many unfortunately, all eminently respectable professionals who were prepared to swear on their Hippocratic Oaths that the good doctor hadn't left The George all night
24. He was tempted to dally in a carriage full of secretary-clones with generous chests and frugal skirts, but he remembered the Office line-up with an uncomfortable shudder, and hurried on through soldiers on furlough, holidaymakers in lurid beach clothes, and exhibitionists who leered at him as he passed, disappointed by his gender but displaying their wares anyway
25. "Which isn't to say we should dally," she then cautioned, just in case the idea had sprung into their heads
26. Come, for the third, Laertes: you but dally;
27. And moving masses as wild demons surging, and lives as nothing risk'd, For thy mere remnant grimed with dirt and smoke and sopp'd in blood, For sake of that, my beauty, and that thou might'st dally as now
28. But with the mystery of God we dare not dally
29. With the wanton damsels dally,
30. May I suppose that the judgment is given in the hearing of us all by one who is able to judge, and has dwelt in the same place with him, and been present at his dally life and known him in his family relations, where he may be seen stripped of his tragedy attire, and again in the hour of public danger--he shall tell us about the happiness and misery of the tyrant when compared with other men?
31. But he feared that Ralph wanted to dally with her
32. not the kind of woman you dally with