But they had to wait too long, much too long, for the infernal elevator, which liked to clamor below with buckling metal and other echoes of motion the minute the call button was pressed, but tended to dally there before zooming right past, up and up, to some grander view of Bequia Tower.
But for Dally there's no doubt the orang pendek are out there.
Analogous to a walk in the woods during which you notice various aspects of the environment, some large, some small, and take delight in them, the Exploratorium provided a "woods" of natural phenomena, through which visitors could walk, dallying here or there to try out one or another of the exhibits.
He took a pipe out of his pocket and said he had dallied in a few things here and there but nothing too special.
For the rest of you out there, if you're going to dally on your stylist, do it at another salon.
Since appearing, aged 13, in Spielberg's Empire of The Sun, he's dallied with wider recognition, but not quite got there.
There, manager Pete Gaimari blames the city's dallying in redeveloping the Triangle for a major decline in his business.
"It's incredibly important that... scientific advice and evidence is out there and... accessible to government," says Joanna Dally, the head of briefings, guidance, and secretariat in the U.K. Government Office for Science.
For us, that theme started at the top of the night when our dallying before the show paid of unexpectedly in a rare Anna Wintour sighting (yep, she was there).
Dr. ElBaradei defended the plan at the time, saying there were "clear deadlines" that proved it was "not an open-ended invitation to dallying with the agency or a ruse to prolong negotiations and avoid sanctions".
