... Evidently a performance had just taken place on the elevated platform beyond, for a few yokels seemed to be lingering in a desultory manner as if preparatory to going out... 
Baroness Emmuska Orczy 「The Elusive Pimpernel」
...It is thus that the best pigments havesuffered in reputation under the injudicious processes of the painter;although, owing to a desultory practice, the effects and results havenot been uniform...
George Field 「Field's Chromatography」
...We areall dreamers, more or less—in more or less desultory fashion—and canall appreciate that prismatic turn of what is real and actual into aposition wherein it catches glints of the imagination...
W. C. Brownell 「French Art」
...Rain was still splattering in desultory bursts, but distance muted therumbling salvos' of thunder...
Various 「Astounding Stories, February, 1931」
...And he moved off, to wander aimlessly down to the river shore and stareabout and presently begin a desultory conversation with sleepy boatmen...
Various 「Astounding Stories of Super-Science July 1930」
...The long feathers of thewing are of a blue black, as also the tail, but in the wings there arethree or four desultory red feathers...
Charles Sturt 「Expedition into Central Australia」
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