"Malingering" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... groaned, stirred, but fell back. Peter had seen the wound—not a desperate one, but enough to lay a man up for a fortnight at home, and this could not have been more than three days old. There wasn't much chance of malingering. ...
— Red Fleece • Will Levington Comfort
... in his brain as a bone may stick in a throat, causing a sense of congestion. Then the words of one of the "pulpit thunderers" of New York rolled back on his ears—"This world will be destroyed, not by the hand of God, but by the wilful and devilish malingering of Man!" Another pleasant thought! And he felt himself to be a poor weak fool to even try to put up a girl's beauty, a girl's love as a barrier to the output of a destroying force engineered by a terrific human intention,—it ...
— The Secret Power • Marie Corelli
... railway,' I says, tipping him a wink. 'Get away from me, you bloodsucker!' he says. But I pinched 'im. The old lags were laughing at one of the grave-digger's oyster-openers, when up comes Rennell. 'Who's laughing?' he says. 'It's 2001,' I says; 'he's always idling and malingering.'" ...
— A Son of Hagar - A Romance of Our Time • Sir Hall Caine
... to take the advice of my friend and not get well too soon, but in reality there was no malingering in the case, for I remained too low and weak to get out ...
— Dick Cheveley - His Adventures and Misadventures • W. H. G. Kingston |
