| 1. | Come, don't lag behind already, Lazy-legs. - from Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens |
| 2. | Leads thee, I shall not lag behinde, nor err. - from Paradise Lost by John Milton |
| 3. | Come, let us lag here no longer, let us be up and awa. - from Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman |
| 4. | Bumble, who was ashamed or afraid to lag behind, followe. - from Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens |
| 5. | What is there more, that I lag and pause and crouch extended wit. - from Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman |
| 6. | In diesem Nachsatz lag eine Drohung. - from Josefine Mutzenbacher by Felix Salten |
| 7. | That came too lag to see him buried. - from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare |
| 8. | My child, believe me none of us shall lag behind or pause from any fear. - from Dracula by Bram Stoker |
| 9. | Er stand da, und ich lag und wartete. - from Josefine Mutzenbacher by Felix Salten |
| 10. | The earth neither lags nor hastens. - from Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman |
| 11. | If trembling in the ships he lags behind. - from The Iliad of Homer by Homer |
| 12. | The first three books are by far the best and judging by the way the interest lags and the allegory grows incomprehensible, it is perhaps as well for Spenser's reputation that the other eighteen books remained a dream. - from English Literature by William J. Long |