If there bee any lasie fellow, any that cannot away with worke, any that would wallow in pleasures, hee is hastie to be priested. And when hee is made one, and has gotten a benefice, he consorts with his neighbour priests, who are altogether given to pleasures; and then both hee, and they, live, not like Christians, but like epicures; drinking, eating, feasting, and revelling, till the cow come home, as the saying is.

"I'm too lazy," he said. "My wife says I'm the laziest man in all Oz, and she is a truthful woman. I hate work of any kind, and making a raft is hard work."

I love staying inside and reading on a lazy Sunday.

There was probably more cattle bearing the Lazy S brand marketed than those of any other ranch in the world.

The Zuliagas branded a Lazy B. In order to distinguish his cows from theirs for the drive back to Arizona, Mr. Day added a britchen brand across their butts, under their tails.

The swilland dropsy enter in
The lazy cuke , and swell his skin

The “lazies” of the party seized the opportunity of remaining behind—wandering, as they said, though all the cross paths were marked.

1898, Jason E. Hammond, “Work and Reward” in Suggestive Programs for Special Day Exercises, Lansing, Michigan: Department of Public Instruction for District Schools, p. ,
The dudes and noodles, cads and snobs, had better move away,
This busy land can’t spare the room for lazies, such as they,
To foreign climate let them go and there forever stay.
Ours is a land for busy workers.

Which myth of the Greek crisis would you like to debunk? — That the Greeks are a nation of lazies on a permanent vacation; that austerity measures, as they were implemented, were proportionally distributed or worth the sacrifice.

To strenuous minds there is an inquietude in overquietness, and no laboriousness in labour; and to tread a mile after the slow pace of a snail, or the heavy measures of the lazy of Brazilia, were a most tiring pennance, and worse than a race of some furlongs at the Olympicks.

“Go to sea,” muttered Mr. Unity Peach. “Work for your living—don’t lazy away your time here!”

That same afternoon we were lazying around in a boat among the water-lilies at the edge of the bay.

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