"Desultorily" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... wished for the day. We slept through troubled dreams, and woke to a gathering calm on the sea. As our eager eyes swept the view by daylight, we found that we were in a semicircular and unsheltered bay, whose choppy water harboured two warships that were desultorily firing. Near us a derelict trawler lay ...
— Tell England - A Study in a Generation • Ernest Raymond |
