sluggard
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Besides "Joy and Pleasure", "Money", "Truly Great", "The Sluggard", "The Best Friend" and of course "Leisure", was a poem I'd never read before: "School's Out".
From The Guardian • Mar. 29, 2010
‘All others are up and doing. Come, Master Sluggard, and look at this place while you may!’
From "The Return of the King" by J.R.R. Tolkien
See! said he, the fatal Consequence of being a Sluggard!
From Zadig Or, The Book of Fate by Voltaire
“If the scheme,” he says, “which I set forth in these pages is not applicable to the Thief, the Harlot, the Drunkard, and the Sluggard, it may as well be dismissed without ceremony.”
From Salvation Syrup; Or, Light On Darkest England by Foote, G. W. (George William)
In the 1715 edition, for the reasons explained by Watts in his Preface, there are only two moral songs, namely "The Sluggard" and "Innocent Play."
From Divine Songs by Watts, Isaac
Vocabulary lists containing sluggard
Oedipus the King
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Tolkien Reading Day, List 3
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Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
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