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Tardiness

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Tardiness
Dagwood
comic strip character; chronically late at the office. [Comics: “Blondie” in Horn, 118]
ten o’clock scholar
schoolboy who habitually arrives late. [Nurs. Rhyme: Opie, 378]
White Rabbit
pocket watch-carrying rabbit. [Br. Lit.: Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland]


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"Under such a government," says the Abbe Mably, "the Union could never have subsisted, if the provinces had not a spring within themselves, capable of quickening their tardiness, and compelling them to the same way of thinking.
The agonizing condition of suspense she had passed in Moscow, the tardiness and indecision of Alexey Alexandrovitch, her solitude--she put it all down to him.
"And do you," said Valentine, "depend on me to stimulate the tardiness and arouse the memory of grandpapa?
 
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