1 An hour later when the conversation began to lag, Gerald, with a guile that belied the wide innocence of his bright blue eyes, proposed a game.
2 Mr. Bumble, who was ashamed or afraid to lag behind, followed: obviously very ill at ease and with scarcely any of that remarkable dignity which was usually his chief characteristic.
3 My child, believe me none of us shall lag behind or pause from any fear.
4 She hurriedly ascended the narrow dimly lit stone staircase, calling to Pierre, who was lagging behind, to follow.
5 Next day, with the sole idea of not sparing himself and not lagging in any way behind them, Pierre went to the Three Hills gate.
6 Tikhon did not like riding, and always went on foot, never lagging behind the cavalry.
7 The woman's resentment of the rebuff seemed to spur her lagging ideas.
8 When the enemy seemed falling back before him and his fellows, he went instantly forward, like a dog who, seeing his foes lagging, turns and insists upon being pursued.
9 There was a lagging, anxious silence, and then all of a sudden there was an explosion of firearms and a cry.
10 If they don't get any fresh evidence, it'll only be a summary conviction, and we shall have him back again after six weeks or so; but, if they do, it's a case of lagging.
11 His horse lagged behind the adjutant's and jolted him at every step.
12 To the noncommissioned officer's excuse that the prisoner was ill and could not walk, the officer replied that the order was to shoot those who lagged behind.
13 He did not see and did not hear how they shot the prisoners who lagged behind, though more than a hundred perished in that way.
14 "And that son of a bitch Petrov has lagged behind after all, it seems," said one sergeant major.
15 But to his surprise Willarski soon noticed that Pierre had lagged much behind the times, and had sunk, as he expressed it to himself, into apathy and egotism.