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indolent
1. and indolent snags of wool on skeleton stunts of elm,
2. The creature looks more indolent than violent
3. Such a clergy, when attacked by a set of popular and bold, though perhaps stupid and ignorant enthusiasts, feel themselves as perfectly defenceless as the indolent, effeminate, and full fed nations of the southern parts of Asia, when they were invaded by the active, hardy, and hungry Tartars of the north
4. Three vampires stood behind the table, the female agnate and two others I hadn’t seen before, their indolent expressions at odds with the tension their postures betrayed
5. In Plymouth Colony it soon became apparent that those more lazy or indolent would habitually show up late for work in the fields
6. The industrious who followed the rules and produced the food resented having the product of their work taken away to feed the indolent and indifferent
7. you are indolent or restless, that your inner Self manifests as the
8. The rest of the evening I amused myself with the guards and the Book looking in between the yellowish and undermined pages the indolent passages for the conjuration that so hard was hiding to my attention
9. Being indolent and prejudiced, it sets itself always against any
10. If you are spiritually indolent and morally unprogressive, you may take as your standards of good the religious practices and traditions of your contemporaries
11. The younger lad was cheerful and vivacious, but indolent and unreliable; the older son was steady and industrious, at the same time self-centered, surly, and conceited
12. ' But his lord answered: `You are an indolent and slothful steward
13. Many spiritually indolent souls crave an ancient and authoritative religion of ritual and sacred traditions
14. The thoughtless, the ignorant, and the indolent, seeing only
15. he wasn’t falling prey to the trappings of Washington’s indolent elitism
16. How hard is it to understand? Right now, Commandant Larose, you are tempting me to ask permission to President Dewey to withdraw my task force from Indochina and let your government pay for the mess it created here just to keep a few thousands of indolent colonists, drug-trafficking officials and nostalgic generals and admirals content
17. I know that Bao Dai is little more than a corrupt and indolent playboy, but he has going for him the fact that he never ordered someone’s death, something precious few Vietnamese politicians can claim today
18. An indolent, arrogant and self-centered man, Tang Yizong had let his empire start to fritter away, oblivious to the miseries afflicting much of his people while living a debauched, luxurious life
19. Sheer badness had triumphed over the few pitiful trickles of good like tsunamis passing over an indolent shore
20. The persons that live in an indolent and
21. intellectually indolent to put forth the mental effort necessary to find that way
22. They became lazier more indolent than the apoplectic lords of England, they became more daring and adventurous than the bravest Portuguese explorers, the became greedier and more cunning than the most crafty Spanish Conquistadors
23. The air was warm and indolent in sharp contrast to the
24. It sails me, I dab with bare feet, they are lick'd by the indolent waves, I am cut by bitter and angry hail, I lose my breath,
25. Never having known mother or sisters, he was quick to feel the influences they brought about him, and their busy, lively ways made him ashamed of the indolent life he led
26. The hot weather made him indolent, and he had shirked his studies, tried Mr
27. Laurie spoke excitedly, and looked ready to carry his threat into execution on the slightest provocation, for he was growing up very fast and, in spite of his indolent ways, had a young man's hatred of subjection, a young man's restless longing to try the world for himself
28. He will grow more and more indolent and careless?
29. weaknesses to good nature, and an indolent facility that kept her too
30. There were not lacking, however, evidences of what we may call the intelligent egoism of a youth who is charmed with the indolent, careless life of an only son, and who lives as it were in a gilded cage
31. Volkheimer shifts slightly in his chair; his gaze is both interested and indolent
32. He was indolent and pure of heart
33. One day she flung herself upon the chair in which her indolent sister was lying and impressed the mark of her teeth at the base of the whitest neck in Sulaco
34. Where he had once been lounging and indolent, he was now as alert as a prowling cat, with the tense alertness of one whose nerves are perpetually drawn as tight as the strings of a violin
35. Not for her the cruel, delicate luxury of choice, the indolent, cat-and-mouse pastimes of the hearth-rug
36. Reductive but true: at any given hour, the hawkers of Chinatown will be hawking, the mah-jongg players mah-jongging, indolent fish lazing in the tanks that front the seafood restaurants
37. Telyanin was sitting in the same indolent pose in which Rostov had left him, rubbing his
38. They are as heedless and as indolent as cats
39. Lady Bertram, who was a woman of very tranquil feelings, and a temper remarkably easy and indolent, would have contented herself with merely giving up her sister, and thinking no more of the matter; but Mrs
40. His readiness, however, in agreeing to dine at the Parsonage, when the general invitation was at last hazarded, after many debates and many doubts as to whether it were worth while, "because Sir Thomas seemed so ill inclined, and Lady Bertram was so indolent!" proceeded from good-breeding and goodwill alone, and had nothing to do with Mr
41. Her disposition was naturally easy and indolent, like Lady Bertram's; and a situation of similar affluence and do-nothingness would have been much more suited to her capacity than the exertions and self-denials of the one which her imprudent marriage had placed her in
42. In his hand he held a long, legal document which he was reading in an indolent fashion, blowing rings of tobacco smoke from his lips as he did so
43. For during many successive generations each individual beetle which flew least, either from its wings having been ever so little less perfectly developed or from indolent habit, will have had the best chance of surviving from not being blown out to sea; and, on the other hand, those beetles which most readily took to flight would oftenest have been blown to sea, and thus destroyed
44. Besides he all the time looked so easy and indolent himself, so loungingly managed his steering-oar, and so broadly gaped—open-mouthed at times—that the mere sight of such a yawning commander, by sheer force of contrast, acted like a charm upon the crew
45. The triumphant halloo of thirty buckskin lungs was heard, as—much nearer to the ship than the place of the imaginary jet, less than a mile ahead—Moby Dick bodily burst into view! For not by any calm and indolent spoutings; not by the peaceable gush of that mystic fountain in his head, did the White Whale now reveal his vicinity; but by the far more wondrous phenomenon of breaching
46. About this time, too, towards evening, the convicts who had been scourged came up; they always made a rather strong impression, as I have said; but it was not every day that any of these were brought to us, and everybody was bored to extinction, when nothing happened to give a fillip to the general relaxed and indolent state of feeling
47. It is possible in this way to know the exact life of this brave, indolent, good-tempered, healthful race of half-Russians, half-Circassians, and to feel the charm they possessed for Olenin
48. The sight of these so radically different men,—the one beaming with freshness, alacrity, elegance, the well-fed Frenchman, in a silk hat and long overcoat of the latest fashion, energetically illustrating with his white hands, unused to labour, how to squeeze the Germans, and the sight of the dishevelled Prokófi, with hay-seed in his hair, dried up from work, sunburnt, always tired and always working, in spite of his immense rupture, with fingers swollen from work, with his loosely hanging homespun trousers, battered bast shoes, jogging along with an immense forkful of hay over his shoulder in that indolent pace of a labouring man, which economizes motion,—the sight of these two so radically different men elucidated to me then many things, and has occurred to me now, after the Toulon-Paris celebrations
49. And if I had arrived to-morrow, she would have come to meet me with her coiffure, with her corsage, her indolent and graceful movements (and I see her attractive and ignoble features), and this jealous animal would have remained forever in my heart, tearing it
50. Telyánin was sitting in the same indolent pose in which Rostóv had left him, rubbing his small white hands