Wallower

I was surprised, as a longtime wallower in suicidal thoughts, and now what you might call a lapsed suicide, to find myself quite affected by Malachi's political statement through that medium. ❋ Unknown (2008)

She wasn't a wallower, and it was time to stop acting like one. ❋ Mayberry, Sarah (2007)

Why is an erotica/romantica reviewer andfan and self-described wallower in "bitchiness" so eager to get a copy of a family-friendly, religious romance. ❋ Mirtika (2006)

I'm a wallower - Tuesday, Oct. 25, 2005 perceptions scarletrose2 ❋ Meggie816 (2005)

Among the idlers of Aix, whom in his loftiness he despised, he was but the fiddling mountebank to whom any greasy wallower in riches could cast a disdainful franc. ❋ William John Locke (1896)

"Perhaps you'll dare insult me again in the presence of visitors, you old mud-wallower!" ❋ Unknown (1887)

Who hath slain the great Gold-wallower, and gotten the ancient Gold; ❋ William Morris (1865)

He saw the earth-old dwelling, the dread Gold-wallower's home: ❋ William Morris (1865)

But the tale of the great Gold-wallower is never the more outworn. ❋ William Morris (1865)

Of the great Gold-wallower's slaying, and the tale of the Glittering ❋ William Morris (1865)

_Wallow_, to roll about upon the ground, e.g. "Fafnir, the wallower on the gold." ❋ William Morris (1865)

Then I slew the great Gold-wallower, and won the ancient Hoard, ❋ William Morris (1865)

Norie, is one where round eastern pots are tied by their collars between two endless ropes suspended on a revolving lantern or wallower. ❋ Unknown (1760)

In one of them the buckets are square, attached to two chains, passing over a cylinder or wallower at top, and under another at bottom, by which they are made to revolve. ❋ Unknown (1760)

I think if I really cleaned up my office it might be easier for me to finish the introduction, and if I finish the introduction I think I could call Roz with genuine confidence in my voice and tell her that yes, I’d been too much of a wallower in self-doubt but that things were on the mend and I wanted her to come back. ❋ Nicholson Baker (2009)

I wasn’t a runner—I was a dedicated wallower—and my own teenage years had been generally spotless. ❋ Andy Greenwald (2006)

If it be desired to raise a continued stream of water, the simplest means which offers itself to the mind is to attach to an endless chain or cord a number of pots or buckets, so disposed that, the chain being suspended on a lanthorn or wallower above, and plunged in water below, the buckets may descend and ascend alternately, filling themselves at bottom and emptying at a certain height above, so as to give a constant stream. ❋ Unknown (1760)