sluggard
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Besides "Joy and Pleasure", "Money", "Truly Great", "The Sluggard", "The Best Friend" and of course "Leisure", was a poem I'd never read before: "School's Out".
From The Guardian • Mar. 29, 2010
‘All others are up and doing. Come, Master Sluggard, and look at this place while you may!’
From "The Return of the King" by J.R.R. Tolkien
Indeed, an impudent fellow representing 'Le Soir' says that if I don't bestir myself I shall be christened the Sluggard King.
From A Son of the Immortals by Christy, Howard Chandler
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From Fairy Tales of the Slav Peasants and Herdsmen by Harding, Emily J.
“If the scheme,” he says, “which I set forth in these pages is not applicable to the Thief, the Harlot, the Drunkard, and the Sluggard, it may as well be dismissed without ceremony.”
From Salvation Syrup; Or, Light On Darkest England by Foote, G. W. (George William)
Vocabulary lists containing sluggard
Oedipus the King
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Tolkien Reading Day, List 3
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Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
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