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Definition of Dallying
1. dally [v] - See also: dally
Lexicographical Neighbors of Dallying
Literary usage of Dallying
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Reminiscences of the Civil War by John Brown Gordon (1903)
"CHAPTER XXIV CEDAR CREEK—A VICTORY AND A DEFEAT Sheridan's dallying for twenty-six
days—Arrival of General Kershaw— Position of Early's army with reference ..."
2. Poetic and Verse Criticism of the Reign of Elizabeth by Felix Emmanuel Schelling (1891)
"We have here no petty dallying with mere toys of wit, to fill the vacant time of
idle courtiers and gentlewomen ; but the serious assignment to poetry of ..."
3. A critical and expository commentary on the book of Judges by Andrew Robert Fausset (1885)
"(1) dallying with temptation a perilous venture.—Fleshly lusts war against the
soul . Yet men natter themselves they can toy with the temptress, ..."
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