stragglingly

She mutters something about her great fear of lightning and thunder; signs her name even more stragglingly than usual, and is at last led by

Gladys, the Reaper Anne Beale

Finally, about noon, they kicked their two prisoners into the river, and took their way stragglingly back along the right-of-way.

The Blazed Trail Stewart Edward White 1909

Finally, about noon, they kicked their two prisoners into the river, and took their way stragglingly back along the right-of-way.

The Blazed Trail 1902

Primitive conditions everywhere prevailed, and communities brooded in silence, growing stragglingly in sluggish indifference, content with coarse food and coarser living.

Three Acres and Liberty Bolton Hall 1896

As steel filings respond to a magnet, they came, and as inevitably; stragglingly, suspiciously by day, in flocks that grew to be a perfect cloud by night.

Where the Trail Divides 1893

Upon these at last broke falteringly, stragglingly, a familiar voice, the voice of Abel Reverdy, kindly and uncouth as himself, and expressive, like his presence, of an impartial interest in the feelings of both the faithful and the unfaithful.

The Leatherwood God William Dean Howells 1878

He added, to the company generally, "Do you know what I think are the two lines of mine that go as deep as any others, in a certain direction?" and he began to repeat stragglingly certain verses from one of his earlier poems, until he came to the closing couplet.

Literary Friends and Acquaintance; a Personal Retrospect of American Authorship William Dean Howells 1878

The water in the river is low, and spreads stragglingly over a wide surface.

Memoirs of 30 Years with the Indian Tribes on the American Frontiers Schoolcraft, H R 1851

I repressed, I got thro 'them as hardly, as stragglingly there,

Browning's Shorter Poems Robert Browning 1850

The water in the river is low, and spreads stragglingly over a wide surface.

Personal Memoirs of a Residence of Thirty Years with the Indian Tribes on the American Frontiers Henry Rowe Schoolcraft 1828