dawdling

But the small boy who was unwillingly dawdling through a series of poses for it, to-day refused all bribes to be good.

I knew that the poor girl from Kansas must get up with the sun, too, for her uncle was not the man to brook any dawdling.

"I always make it a point to be punctual," Lamb dawdling in the background, overheard him say.

This is the method of Vacuity or Dawdling formerly mentioned.

An' ye aims ter trust ther life of ther only real man in these mountings ter ther dawdling of sonny?

The men are doing something noble, not dawdling away these glorious days in selling tape and ribbons.