Most of 'em dawdle so at the few things they try to do.

No good boy would dawdle so about his business.

I should not have dawdled so long over my dressing.'

Why are you women dawdling so with the samovar?'

"Why have you dawdled so long before paying us a visit?"

"What in heck keeps them dawdling so long over it?"

"Don't dawdle so, we shall be late for church."

After lunch the men had to start quickly, as we had dawdled so, and so we turned to go back to the house.

"Ma won't be down for ever so long," she said, "and then it's a chance if breakfast's ready for an hour afterwards, they dawdle so.