sluggard
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With television’s new proximity to the more puritanical uses of our devices, the archetype of the beached sluggard on the couch has been smuggled into a portrait of diligence.
From The New Yorker • Jul. 6, 2016
I've never been a sluggard, and yet I've never felt that I've done one twentieth of what I was capable of doing.
From The Guardian • Jun. 14, 2013
To Dzerzhinsky�in the opinion of virtually all foreign correspondents at Moscow�belongs almost the sole credit for having inculcated a spirit kindred to "efficiency" into sluggard Soviet industry.
From Time Magazine Archive
Myrmecology sets Mystic Maeterlinck musing; he thinks the ant may be an example, not only to the sluggard, but to the whole race.
From Time Magazine Archive
A longer life the crawling snail hath Than thou—O wanderer bright— Ah, let the sluggard crawl in safety, Thine is the realm of light!
From Memorial Day and Other Verse by Reed, Helen Leah
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Oedipus the King
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Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
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