One day, three or four weeks after the August Bank Holiday, she saw him dawdling along the pavement, and it suddenly struck her that she had not seen him for a long time; but she had been so full of her happiness that she had been unable to think of anyone but Jim.
"Liza of Lambeth"
W. Somerset Maugham
No, it had not been a dawdling day for him at all; on the contrary, he had not had time to glance at a single newspaper, and now, as he got some hot drink for himself and lit his pipe and hauled in an easy-chair to the fire, he thought he would look over the evening journals.
"Prince Fortunatus"
William Black
Now Maurice Mangan had spoken of his dawdling about this house; but the fact was that he had his hands full from morning till night.
"Prince Fortunatus"
William Black