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sluggard

[sluhg-erd] / ˈslʌg ərd /


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With television’s new proximity to the more puritanical uses of our devices, the archetype of the beached sluggard on the couch has been smuggled into a portrait of diligence.

From The New Yorker • Jul. 6, 2016

I've never been a sluggard, and yet I've never felt that I've done one twentieth of what I was capable of doing.

From The Guardian • Jun. 14, 2013

Proverbs: 6: 9-11 How long will you How long wilt thou He, O sluggard? sleep, O sluggard?

From Time Magazine Archive

No sluggard, but a scientific inquirer whose researches have not damped his mystical inquisitiveness, Maurice Maeterlinck has gone to the ant, observed its actions, noted down many a formicine phenomenon in this exciting little book.

From Time Magazine Archive

That celebrated bird is quite a sluggard, as it does not rise till long after chaffinches, linnets, and a number of hedgerow birds have been up and about for some time.

From St. Nicholas Vol. XIII, September, 1886, No. 11 An Illustrated Magazine for Young Folks by Various




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