Citations:lagging

English citations of lagging

• 1595, William Shakespeare, King Richard II

  How long a time lies in one little word! / Four lagging winters and four wanton springs / End in a word: such is the breath of kings.

• 1859, Walt Whitman, "Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking", from Leaves of Grass

  Carols under that lagging, yellow, waning moon!

• 1861-1865, Emily Dickinson, Delayed till she had ceased to know —

  Oh, lagging yesterday

• 1878, W. S. Gilbert, H.M.S. Pinafore

  We'll chase the lagging hours along