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Darwin had begun work on the text that became On the Origin of Species in the early 1840s, but had dallied over it.

From Scientific American • Dec. 12, 2011

They had dallied in the U. S. and crossed the Pacific, which no man has ever spanned by air, in a boat.

From Time Magazine Archive

Certainly in part: they had yielded to the farm bloc on farm prices, had dallied since February on taxes.

From Time Magazine Archive

Since then, for 28 days they had dallied in London and Lausanne under the sympathetic eye of Michael's Mama, Queen Helen, while Michael shyly pursued his quest.

From Time Magazine Archive

The sudden rush of rugged eloquence had been like a flash of lightning, shivering delusions to fragments, and laying bare before him the manner in which he had dallied with the high possibilities offered him.

From The Tree of Knowledge A Novel by Reynolds, Mrs. Baillie