When the bacon was ready, she served it up on a plate with fried bread and a tomato and poured his tea, then went to find out why their daughter was dawdling in the bedroom.
Fish (fly-replete, in depth of June, Dawdling away their wat'ry noon).
One or two, perhaps still sleepy – or irked at being yanked from their warm wood shavings, dropped into cages and put in the back of the "ratbus" for another day's drills – look less enthusiastic, dawdling in their harnesses along the rope line held between two trainers.
Describes screening and party for "The Fifth Element," which "in their blend of frenzy and dawdling...set the tone for the whole festival".
I love the lights and rush and exhilaration of speeding round the supermarket; let those saddoes who want to dawdle their day away over errands, but some of us love the buzz of getting things done quickly so one can then move on and do something one loves, be it sex, conversation or lazing away the day on the sofa or the beach with a good book.
The Democrats dawdle their time away passing bullshit laws while the state burns.
Senator Levin, explaining why his amendment insisted on a timetable, said, "As long as the Iraqi leaders believe that their future is in our hands instead of theirs, they will continue to dawdle while their country is torn by bloodshed".
New rules enacted in the off-season limit players' dawdling and yapping before face-offs and their loafing onto line changes after plays stop.
The Greeks may talk about improving their infrastucture, but even if there had not been massive dawdling at the start, Athens tried to do too much.
Both quit their jobs for their first stint of full-time mothering and they imagined a few years of dawdling together through parks, hanging out in coffee shops, trips to the zoo.
Paleontologists have long thought of the coelacanth as a stodgy old slowpoke: Two modern-day species of the fish considered living fossils because of their remarkable similarity to ancient coelacanths typically swim in a slow, almost dawdling manner.
