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The big chunks of the easy-to-find gold that had been lolling around in rivers for millenniums were gone after the first years of the Gold Rush, and Marshall himself died penniless.

From New York Times • Apr. 22, 2023

I had been lolling in the swivel-chair a full ten minutes, perhaps, when the telephone rang.

From Zone Policeman 88; a close range study of the Panama canal and its workers by Franck, Harry Alverson

Anthony, who had been lolling in the hammock on the sun-speckled south porch, strolled around to the front of the house.

From The Beautiful and Damned by Fitzgerald, F. Scott (Francis Scott)

She had been lolling back in a chair.

From The Perfume of Eros: A Fifth Avenue Incident by Saltus, Edgar

Molly pulled her slender length from the depths of the Morris chair where she had been lolling.

From Molly Brown's Junior Days by Speed, Nell