[Footnote 8: Most remarkable of all would this be, should we adopt the views of Mr. Hunter, because we know, from the incidental testimony of Piers Ploughman, that only forty years after the date fixed upon for the outlaw's submission "rhymes of Robin Hood" were in the mouth of every tavern lounger; and yet no chronicler can spare him a word.]

Being situated near the Parliament Housethe centre of literary and antiquarian loungers, as well as lawyersCreech's place of business was much frequented by the gossipers, and was known as Creech's Levee.

And for me, I confess, even the sins of these three other striving empires take on, in comparison, something that is sorrowful and dignified: and I feel they do not deserve that this little Lutheran lounger should patronise all that is evil in them, while ignoring all that is good.

Some of the most exceptionally idle loungers, however, show evidence of Indian blood in their veins, in the shape of exceptionally high cheek-bones, and abnormally straight and ungovernable hair.

The insolent loungers who bawled in the Forum were often mere stepsons of Italy, who had been dragged thither in chains,the dregs of all nations, which had flowed into Rome as into a common sewer, bringing with them no heritage except the specialty of their national vices.

Mr. Sala objects very much to judging a whole class of people by a few street-corner or cross-road loungers.

In the former case, rather more sunburnt than the average lounger in Piccadilly; in the latter, rather fairer than the average Afghan and Pathan loafer in Abdul Rehman Bazaar.

About the gate there was a cluster of melancholy loungers, looking cold and hungry.

And so all sorts of curious ways are discoverable by the mere wood-lounger.

The wind and rain had cleared the unfrequented suburb of any observant lounger, and the darkness, lit only by far-spaced, gusty lamps, hid her hastening figure.

A belated lounger glanced up in surprise as Waring, booted and spurred, entered the lobby with a man in pajamas.

For the traveller on his first visit a great surprise is in store; with a name such as this one pictures in advance a place of quays on a sluggish river, fairly wide and very muddy, opening to the sea, with the conventional loungers, tarry and fishy scents and a fringe of lodging houses.