Its incessant discords could not drown the music of my thoughts if I would let them fly high enough. Even the long hours, the early rising and the regularity enforced by the cladgor of the bell were good discipline for one who was naturally inclined to dally and to dream, and who loved her own personal liberty with a willful rebellion against control. Perhaps I could have brought myself into the limitations of order and method in no other way.英文原著 · 《A New England Girlhood》
It was obviously only a recognition of the futility of further dallying that was driving the old man on- ward. He knew, of course, that if he was resolved to take this step, a longer delay would simply make it harder for him. The correspondent, leaning forward, was watching him almost breathlessly.英文原著 · 《Active Service》
'I traversed the fold, and upward among the trees-- Each place, far and near, wherein I was wont to salute my love. When I looked down from the crag, and beheld the fair-haired stranger dallying with his bride, I wished I had never revisited the glen of my dreams. SUCH THINGS CAME INTO MY HEART AS THAT SUN WAS GOING DOWN, A PAIN OF WHICH I SHALL NEVER BE RID, WHAT AVAILETH ME TO TELL IT?英文原著 · 《Chronicles of the Canongate》
I reached Suez at last. The British agent, though roused from his midnight sleep, received me in his home with the utmost kindness and hospitality. by Jove, how delightful it was to lie on fair sheets, and to dally with sleep, and to wake, and to sleep, and to wake once more, for the sake of sleeping again!英文原著 · 《Eothen》
It was a matter of expediency to her; a thing to debate with herself, to dally over, with paltry pros and cons. Miss Vance came hurriedly up the street, an open letter in her hand. Lucy ran to meet her. "What is it? You have heard bad news?"
"I suppose we ought not to call it that. It is from George Waldeaux. They have a son, two months old. He tells it as a matter for rejoicing."
"Oh, yes," said Lucy feebly.英文原著 · 《Frances Waldeaux》
From a race of the true kings of men he was descended, who conquered out of the jaws of the wilderness the priceless inheritance of American privilege and freedom. And while kings at home were trying to crush out the liberties of their subjects, or were dallying with wantons in the palaces built out of the unrequited toil of the long-suffering and downtrodden people, these men of iron were the pioneers of American civilization, at a time, which Holmes so graphically describes:英文原著 · 《James Otis The Pre-Revolutionist》
It seems only logical that To restore balance to the relationship, You should find another man and dally with him.美剧 · 《The Big Bang Theory》