Uncle Tom’s Cabin vocabulary

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covey
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indolence

help with synonyms  synonyms: lymphatic, torpid, phlegmatic, faineant, otiose, ~lentor, ~lassitude, ~enervated ???
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Definition:
laziness
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“Well, how do you like our Temple of Indolence?” said the prince, taking his arm. “Come along, come along!”

Leo Tolstoy. Anna Karenina (1878)
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George: Little sisters of indolence, three men came in. Which way did they go?
Blackadder: [speaking falsetto] Oh, I think they went that way.

BBC. Blackadder, season 1: The Archbishop
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The tranced ship indolently rolls; the drowsy trade winds blow; everything resolves you into languor.

Herman Melville. Moby Dick
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I saw she was sorry for his persevering sulkiness and indolence

Emily Brontë. Wuthering Heights (1847)
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it relieved the day of its superfluity, and that the steeple, with the indolent, painstaking exactitude of a person who has nothing else to do

Marcel Proust. In Search of Lost Time [volume 1]
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