lie-abed

With all this she was a little of a slattern, something more of a lie-abed, and, above all, a gossip of the first water; neglecting house, household, and every thing else, to loiter slipshod in the houses of her gossip neighbors.

The Alhambra 2002

With all this she was a little of a slattern, something more of a lie-abed, and, above all, a gossip of the first water; neglecting house, household, and every thing else, to loiter slipshod in the houses of her gossip neighbors.

The Alhambra 2002

Mrs. Hazleton scolded her jestingly for late rising, and asked if she was always such a lie-abed.

The International Monthly, Volume 3, No. 1, April, 1851 Various

She was no "lie-abed" in any case, and in her present nervous state she had to be up and doing.

Ruth Fielding Down East Or, The Hermit of Beach Plum Point Alice B. Emerson

She wondered sleepily at his sprightliness, for as she remembered him at home he had been a confirmed lie-abed.

Big Timber A Story of the Northwest Bertrand W. Sinclair 1926

"You are no lie-abed at least," said the green gentleman.

The House of Arden Edith 1923

That early training of hers from Aunt Fanny Warham had made it forever impossible for her in any circumstances to become the typical luxuriously sheltered woman, whether legally or illegally kept -- the lie-abed woman, the woman who dresses only to go out and show off, the woman who wastes her life in petty, piffling trifles -- without purpose, without order or system, without morals or personal self-respect.

Susan Lenox: Her Fall and Rise, Volume II 1915

Warham had made it forever impossible for her in any circumstances to become the typical luxuriously sheltered woman, whether legally or illegally kept -- the lie-abed woman, the woman who dresses only to go out and show off, the woman who wastes her life in petty, piffling trifles -- without purpose, without order or system, without morals or personal self-respect.

Susan Lenox: Her Fall and Rise David Graham Phillips 1889

Holland, unlike France, is a lie-abed country, and at an hour when a French town would be astir and its streets already thronged with people hurrying to buy or sell at the greatest possible advantage, a Dutch city is still asleep.

Roden's Corner Henry Seton Merriman 1882

'She was not wont to be a lie-abed; but she was well then.

The Old Curiosity Shop Charles Dickens 1841