Word: sprawlingly
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...Eadgar and his thanes (so the play goes) have feasted until dawn in the smoky barn-hall at Winchester. The roast boar's head is hewn to skull and tusks. Mead has been spilled on the oak and the king's strong-thewed companions, none over 30, sprawl, snore or listen intently to the end of a long-drawn saga sung by Maccus, the harper. They thump the board with their cups at the finish. The ladies, gathered apart, lament the saga's true-loving hero...
...these characteristics have their importance, and each of them is worrying in its own way the mind of the University. But the last is by far the most troublesome. For ugliness improves with age--the red sprawl of two weeks is the delightful, gurgling wonder of two months nakedness eventually loses itself in pink ribbons and embroidered flannel--but autocracy grows greater and becomes more formidable with the passing of the months. The tutorial system is doing just that. So the brotherly heart of the lecture system beats the double time of panic. And fear seeps its way into...
Prince Yasuhito Chichibu-no-miya, second son of the Mikado, lay abed at Miirren, Switzerland. Now and then he twitched about and eased the pain-pricks darting through his left instep, recently strained by a sprawl upon the ice (TIME, Feb. 22). Several times he wakened in the night and wondered why he seemed to be growing pain-prickly all over...
Among a number of rather exasperating restrictions in the Harvard Library there is one which seems particularly without reason. I do not mean the rule which forbids you to remove the drawers from the card catalogue, although that frequently forces the reader to sprawl on the floor if he desires to consult the lower drawers, and often causes a considerable waste of time when some one else is using one of the drawers in the same column with the one which you wish to use. Nor do I refer to the law which denies holders of cards the access...