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Make no ill conclusions upon any man's lothness to die, for the mercies of God work momentarily in minutes, and many times insensibly to bystanders, or any other than the party departing.

From Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions Together with Death's Duel by Donne, John

The man of fifty-four, become the biographer of his own youth, finds no lothness of self-respect to prevent his 218 detailing the absurd adventures with which he diverted himself on the way.

From French Classics by Wilkinson, William Cleaver

But yet ever there hangeth in a man's heart a lothness to lack a living!

From Dialogue of Comfort Against Tribulation With Modifications To Obsolete Language By Monica Stevens by Stevens, Monica

There is a great defect in many, that through a lothness to be at a little expense, they provide themselves with no more helps of this nature.” 

From Bunyan Characters (2nd Series) by Whyte, Alexander