All eyes were intent on the sluggish waters that earnestly pretended they had never harboured a single minnow when a loud rough shout made them start.
His father was a carpenter, and they dwelt in a little old red-brick house, neat and clean, by the side of a sluggish canal.
Leaving the water-side, where rushes stood thick and tall in a stream that was becoming sluggish and low, he wandered country-wards, crossed a field or two of pasturage already looking dusty and parched, and thrust into the great sea of wheat, yellow, wavy, and murmurous, full of quiet motion and small whisperings.
Wilkins, much pleased with her, though it was still quite early in the day, a time when caresses are sluggish, pinched her ear.
I feel sluggish.
Despite a sluggish rollout so far, the EU aims to vaccinate three-quarters of its adult population by the end of summer and officials remain hopeful that if national delivery speeds up, many restrictions could be lifted in time for the holidays.
Some of it was about him, as the league's reigning most valuable player was almost instantly ruled out of competing for a chance to repeat as the award's winner this season after a sluggish start of his own.
You're not consuming enough iron An iron deficiency can leave you feeling sluggish, irritable, weak, and unable to focus.
"A pie piled with processed red meat and cheese with a thick crust may leave you feeling sluggish, sleepy, and bloated all day," says Sass, "but a pizza loaded with veggies, lean protein, and light cheese (or no cheese!
" The problem now seen is that users over the last year could have blamed an aging computer processor for app crashes and sluggish performance - and chose to buy a new phone - when the true cause may have been a weak battery that could have been replaced for a fraction of the cost, some of the lawsuits state.
If I do not do any physical exercise, I will feel tired and my body becomes quite sluggish.
The most astonishing finding was that 19-year-olds were so sluggish, they could be compared to an elder in their 60s.
Despite a sluggish world economy, the expanding group of wealthy Chinese, especially millennials, is showing a bigger appetite for luxury travel, adding a bit to the members' spirit of adventure.
Naps aren't just for the very young, old, and sluggish.
At last month's annual Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, executives from European mobile operators expressed worries that the combination of regulatory constraints and sluggish economic growth would curtail construction of 4G networks in the continent.
Trump's tumble Forbes attributed the US president's slide down the list to the sluggish Manhattan property market, which is responsible for a disproportionate amount of his wealth.
But the subsequent recession and sluggish recovery produced a glut of workers for these relatively low-skill, personal-service jobs; wages have been depressed as a consequence, Mr.
US banks have increasingly sought to cut costs and jobs at home to combat tougher regulation and sluggish revenue growth.
France's sluggish economy and recent terror attacks may also be contributing to the exodus.
The impact of sluggish growth on year-end payouts may have peaked in 2015, however, when 66 per cent of white-collar workers received no year-end bonus.
