"Laggard" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... errand, and the chidings of those London traders that we sent them not a cargo by the Mayflower? We who had much ado to dig the graves of half our company and to find food for the rest, to be rated like laggard servants because we laded not that old hulk with merchandise for ...
— Standish of Standish - A story of the Pilgrims • Jane G. Austin
... all her ears sought for two sounds with agonizing acuteness—the firm, rapid step of Jonah mounting the stairs winding from the shop, or the nonchalant, laggard footfall of Ray ascending from the stairs at the rear. Would Cassidy send the bottle and trust her for the other eighteen pence? Would Jonah hurry back to meet Miss Grimes? Presently her ear distinguished the light, uncertain ...
— Jonah • Louis Stone
... as in that elder time, Warm, energetic, chaste, sublime! Thy wonders, in that god-like age, Fill thy recording Sister's page;— 'Tis said and I believe the tale, Thy humblest reed could more prevail Had more of strength, diviner rage, Than all which charms this laggard age, E'en all at once together found Cecilia's mingled world of sound:— O bid our vain endeavours cease: Revive the just designs of Greece: Return in all thy simple state! Confirm the ...
— The Golden Treasury - Of the Best Songs and Lyrical Poems in the English Language • Various
... I didn't sleep a wink, waiting for eleven o'clock to come round; and I thought it never would come round, as I lay counting from time to time the slow strokes of the ponderous bell in the steeple of the Old North Church. At length the laggard hour arrived. While the clock was striking I jumped out of bed ...
— The Story of a Bad Boy • Thomas Bailey Aldrich
... With laggard grace the tinker stretched his hands over the now empty basket and gripped Patsy's. "Lass, lass—what are you thinking of me? Faith! my manners are more ragged than my clothes—and I'm not fit to be ...
— Seven Miles to Arden • Ruth Sawyer
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