Nearing Chinnavaikal, we see two cows on the shore, one lying torpid in the sun, one nosing around desultorily. |
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She swallowed the last of her tea in a single gulp and looked desultorily at the empty cup. |
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As the first battalion of the Irish Guards go through the motions of their normal Tuesday morning practice, the crowds begin to gather desultorily round the Palace forecourt. |
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The monarchy favoured modern manufacturing and, more desultorily, modern finance. |
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It shifts desultorily from style to style, with songs barely hanging around long enough to state their case. |
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Walton, the son of a choirmaster father and a vocalist mother, studied violin and piano desultorily as a boy and also sang, with somewhat better results, in his father's choir. |
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In the meagre shade of rocky outcroppings, jellaba-clad boys and old men desultorily watch over skinny goats scrounging the arid countryside for scarce fodder. |
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Those methods are commonly used in other countries and were desultorily considered by the previous, Labour, government. A brave prime minister would revive them. |
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I read a page here and there, and made acquaintance with a great many authors whom I was content to know thus desultorily. |
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He took back the book and began to flip desultorily through its pages. |
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She had been working desultorily on her book for several years. |
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