Soon supper was as Desultorily talkative as it always was.
"The Story of Louie"
Oliver Onions
As soon as Lord and Lady Eglinton appeared his majestic figure detached itself from the various groups of flunkeys, who stood about Desultorily pending the breaking up of Her Majesty's Court; he had a cloak over his arm, and, at a sign from his master he approached and handed him the cloak which milor then placed round his wife's shoulders.
"Petticoat Rule"
Emmuska Orczy, Baroness Orczy
Presently the coffee and cigars came and the women went across the hall, while the men talked Desultorily until the sound of Bessie's voice singing a French song to Isabella's accompaniment attracted them.
"Together"
Robert Herrick (1868-1938)