What is "laggard"

Usage examples of "laggard".

But it was a laggard and ice-thin prosperity, and Sarah was worried about her daughter: her son-in-law was a licensed pipe fitter, laid off indefinitely by a Tampa-area natural gas distributor.

Abner and Gouger and the other bullies kept them at it as long as there was light enough every day, dealing a swift and brutal and very public corporal punishment to any shirker or laggard, trying hard to ensure that the lesser Ganiks would all be too exhausted through the long, dark, windy nights to do more than sip a few drafts of hot broth and then sleep.

He watched gunners flee, then saw the Madrassi sepoys tear into the laggards with their bayonets.

The rush hour for pin buying must have been nearly over, because there were only a few laggards ogling the pins under glass, or thumbing through the racks.

Sure, this beseems a race of laggard wit, Unwarned by those plain letters scrawled on air.

She met the laggard gnats again, and watched her heroic forager giving his tiny life to serve the hive.

It was here that the three guides met and passed each other and here, naturally enough, that the laggards wandered off with the wrong lot.

In three minutes we shall be at home and able to make fine sport of those laggards when they arrive in another quarter of an hour.

Around him, other shapes and contours contorted against a cloudless blue sky while alien scavengers swooped low, checking on their impending two-legged meal as they avidly monitored its increasingly laggard progress.

Gerri studies the chalk marks and eraser smears left behind on the blueboard as the laggard sun wanders home after class.

Clog, Blackeye, and Paddler were inside, having dropped through the acidcut hole in the roof, snarling and snapping at the laggards.

Dyne had not yet stirred, much of his audience, grown quite bored with his wooden impersonation, his rubber member, were already deep in the wholesome embrace of one another, naked duos, trios, quartets even, in all combos, distributed across the sloping lawn, heavily engaged in (insert favorite sexual practice), versatile Freya striding anxiously amid the fun, directing Perry's laggard camera from one novel clinch to the next, herself pursued by the twinge of melancholy (none must ever know) such a feast sometimes raised in her, the spectacle of the multitudes screwing too near to the god's-eye view of the multitudes dying.

To confirm her hideous surmise, the double doors of one of the barns now opened and its inhabitants, comprised of the six-legged grazers and some other smaller and different types, were being herded to the abattoir by a curious mechanical which had long extendable ‘arms' and which spat electrical sparks at laggard beasts.

She had better not be laggard with the tidings to Nesso who would relish disseminating information of such caliber.

Laggards were thumped on the shoulders with billy clubs and told to get moving.