lazy

The “lazies” of the party seized the opportunity of remaining behind—wandering, as they said, though all the cross paths were marked.

To strenuous minds there is an inquietude in overquietness, and no laboriousness in labour; and to tread a mile after the slow pace of a snail, or the heavy measures of the lazy of Brazilia, were a most tiring pennance, and worse than a race of some furlongs at the Olympicks.