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  • When, short-handed as he was, two of his cowboys went a-spreeing and a-leisuring in town, with their faces turned from honest toil and their hands manipulating pairs and flushes and face-cards, rather than good

    The Lonesome Trail and Other Stories B. M. Bower 1905

  • The two gentlemen upon the housetop were leisuring away the time in the indulgence of a cigar, watching the water-fowl that swam and plunged on the bosom of the broad shallow stream, listening to the hoarse croakings of pelicans and the shriller screams of the _guaya_ cranes.

    The Lone Ranche Mayne Reid 1850

  • Obama calls this fixing the economy and leisuring at basketball games while people are out of work, can't pay their morgages, loans and no health care?!

    Yahoo! Buzz US: Top Stories 2010

  • Obama calls this fixing the economy and leisuring at basketball games while people are out of work, can't pay their morgages, loans and no health care?!

    Yahoo! Buzz US: Top Stories 2010

  • Instead of just leisuring along the beach or at the mall, they searched for temporary work that could make them save money for their coming school year.

    websaytko.com - raredog's chronicle 2009

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