[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.]

The lounger, propped on elbows, finished his smoke, spat upon the tiles, and remained, a pensive silhouette.

I've asked myself to tiffin," drawled the lounger, from a little tempest of blue smoke, tossed by the punkah.

[person who is inactive] idler, drone, droil^, dawdle, mopus^; do- little faineant [Fr.], dummy, sleeping partner; afternoon farmer; truant &c (runaway) 623; bummer^, loafer, goldbrick, goldbicker, lounger, lazzarone

It would be a hard name to give it if he had not been a club-lounger of his day.

'It's as settled a business as the entries and bets for next year's Derby,' said one lounger to another in the smoking-room of the Haute Gomme.

[Illustration: When she emerged a very business-like Peggy had taken the place of the lounger in the hammock.]

When she emerged a very business-like Peggy had taken the place of the lounger in the hammock.

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

On the inhabitants, as might be apprehended, such pageants have long since lost all their influence; and I have seen a line extending down a whole street, without deranging a single lounger from his seat, or interrupting for an instant the pleasures of ice-eating and punch-drinking, which generally takes place in the open air.

Henry Mackenzie, in The Lounger.

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.

"Wherefore giving all diligence"in no other way can the pearl of great price be secured; it does not lie by the roadside for any lounger to pick up.

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.

Lovely woman is urged not to allow her beauty, her gentleness, her tender submissiveness to become the butt of the lounger at the street corner; and in most instances lovely woman, like the celebrated Maître Corbeau, is cajoled effectively.

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.

Once, he even heard her speak the writer's name; whereupon, every lounger upon the veranda, within hearing, turned to observe the party with curious interest.

The groves of the great western court were probably used by the lounger, the contemplative, and the studious, if we may judge by numerous seats and benches, at convenient intervals.

See Lounger, No. 30.

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

The lounger accosted Stanley.

The lounger gazed at the path of lamplight which framed the bare hitching-rail.

The lounger, leaning on his elbow, suddenly straightened.

"I guess it's up to us to do somethin'," suggested the 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.