| 1. | O I have been dilatory and dumb. - from Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman |
| 2. | And wit depends on dilatory time. - from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare |
| 3. | This dilatory sloth and tricks of Rome. - from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare |
| 4. | Oh, these bleak winds and bitter northern skies, and impassable roads, and dilatory country surgeon. - from Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte |
| 5. | His letter was soon dispatched for, though dilatory in undertaking business, he was quick in its execution. - from Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen |
| 6. | His family knew him to be, on all common occasions, a most negligent and dilatory correspondent but at such a time they had hoped for exertion. - from Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen |
| 7. | The dilatory manner of our journey, the agreeable breaks we had made at different interesting towns had quite restored my beloved wife to all her accustomed health, energy, and lubricity. - from The Romance of Lust by Anonymous |