I think we must be the laziest people in town; at any rate, we seem to be the latest risers.
"Lonesome Land"
B. M. Bower
I've seen the laziest old hoss that ever lived kick and run like all possessed as soon as the shafts tetched his heels, and that's jest the condishun we've been in in this country for some time.
"Letters of Major Jack Downing, of the Downingville Militia"
Seba Smith
Old John Dumbutter, the laziest man I ever knew in Maine, sed he once had the fever an ager in Mishegan so that it shook the buttons off his coat; but such medicen as Seward is givin the country now will shake even the tail fethers out of the grate American Eagle."
"Letters of Major Jack Downing, of the Downingville Militia"
Seba Smith