... A desultory palaver "came up;" the soul of the meeting not being present...
Richard F. Burton 「Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo Volume 2」
..." John Taylor after a little desultory talk, followed his host up-stairs...
W. E. B. Du Bois 「The Quest of the Silver Fleece」
...After some desultory conversation I told him who I was and how I came to be there...
Charles Thompson 「Biography of a Slave」
...Desultoryartillery and somewhat less desultory sniping had prevailed throughoutthe night, and at daybreak; but nothing out of the ordinary...
Albert Payson Terhune 「Bruce」
...A desultory rifle-fire was opened...
John Charles Beecham 「The Argus Pheasant」
...It is said that persons digging in a desultory way have unearthedbones which were assumed to be those of Indians because they were"red...
Gerard Fowke 「Archeological Investigations」
...While a few of them may have been thrown in with the ashes,most of this confusion resulted from the activity of rodents, thoughsome of it was due to desultory former investigations...
Gerard Fowke 「Archeological Investigations」
...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」
...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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