Their warmth stirred her up to be so busy and laudably benevolent; perhaps if he had been away she might have been idle and slack-handed; but I do not know.
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Slack-handed
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It was the fate of the Creoles—possibly a climatic result—to be slack-handed and dilatory.
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His autocracy had been transformed into a system of feudal baronies, with president Fitzsimmons as the slack-handed overseer.
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Solomon had a thorough contempt for slothful, slack-handed farming, and lost no opportunity of giving drowsy ignorance a view of its own deformity, and its own certain fate.
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