1 He had carried his cup to the fireplace, and stood leaning against the chimney-piece and looking down on her with an air of indolent amusement.
2 The waves, too, nodded their indolent crests; and across the wide trance of the sea, east nodded to west, and the sun over all.
Moby Dick By Herman MelvilleContext Highlight In CHAPTER 61. Stubb Kills a Whale. 3 It is very curious to watch this harem and its lord in their indolent ramblings.
Moby Dick By Herman MelvilleContext Highlight In CHAPTER 88. Schools and Schoolmasters. 4 My window was open, and the earthy wind blowing through made me indolent.
5 St. Clare was indolent and careless of money.
6 To which, the butcher's boy: who appeared of a lounging, not to say indolent disposition: replied, that he thought not.
7 In his hand he held a long, legal document which he was reading in an indolent fashion, blowing rings of tobacco smoke from his lips as he did so.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In VII. THE ADVENTURE OF CHARLES AUGUSTUS MILVERTON 8 And very little doses I found they were before long, for I never met people more indolent or more easily fatigued.
9 Never having known mother or sisters, he was quick to feel the influences they brought about him, and their busy, lively ways made him ashamed of the indolent life he led.
10 They were all thoughtless or indolent.
11 Telyanin was sitting in the same indolent pose in which Rostov had left him, rubbing his small white hands.
12 They are as heedless and as indolent as cats.
Les Misérables (V1) By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER V—AT BOMBARDA'S 13 For Ashley, spring was back again, that half- forgotten balmy spring of green rustlings and murmurings, a spring of ease and indolence, careless days when the desires of youth were warm in his body.
14 The lady's habits were marked by an Oriental indolence and disorder peculiarly trying to her companion.
15 We rode slowly, with a pleasant sense of Sunday indolence.