For a little while longer, I loitered about; keeping my eyes and ears open, but still, without seeing or hearing anything suspicious.

It seems that our minds had evidently been running on a different subject than provisions while we were loitering in Sheridan, and we found ourselves, with a two hundred and fifty mile march ahead of us, without anything more inviting than ordinary army rations.

am I, a man full grown, to loiter on the trail with the like of you?

They might have done better if they had not loitered along the way.

"He'll think when I to market went, I loitered by the way; He'll think a willing ear I lent to all the lads might say; He'll think some other lover's hand, among my tresses noosed, From the ears where he had placed them, my rings of pearl unloosed; He'll think, when I was sporting so beside this marble well,

After talking all the morning, he dined at a tavern, staying late and then going to some friend's house for tea, over which he again loitered for a long time.

Do you suppose I can loiter at a safe distance from the painted devils when my father is expectin' to see some sign that I'm doin' all I may to help him?" "I question if Peter Sitz expects that any one from Cherry Valley will follow Thayendanega's snakes.

There was a scattering of people in the distance, apparently loitering with no particular purpose, but undoubtedly because they awaited an explosion of some sort.

She sought wildly to delay, delay to the last fragment of the last second before yielding to the inevitable; she wanted to loiter over her hair, and her fingers raced.

X. I murmur, under moon and stars In brambly wildernesses, I linger by my shingly bars, I loiter round my cresses.

The swarm of natives who were constantly loitering around the camp gathered together and advanced in an armed crowd, threatening the men, who fired two shots in self-defence, one of which accidentally wounded a woman.

At half-past one o'clock people began to loiter into the court-house at Wilkesbarre; at two the court-room was full.

Carl was loitering under a tree hard by, listening to the quick footsteps to which his heart kept time.

Here children of all colors from black to cream fight and play; deep-chested negresses loiter to and fro, some on errands to the white section of the village on the other side of the hill, where they go to scrub or cook or wash or iron.

XLIX "The roads I paced, I loitered through the fields; Contentedly, yet sometimes self-accused, Trusted my life to what chance bounty yields, 435 Now coldly given, now utterly refused.

One company detailed to bring up the rear was still loitering near the station when the newspapers were thrown off the train and eagerly seized by the men, who bestrewed themselves in groups to hear the news read aloud.

I wonder what there was About those dainty lovers or their speech, That changed Euktemon's mood; for all the way From high Cleonæ to the city gates, Till sunset found us loitering without aim, Half lost among the dusky-moving crowds, I could get nothing from him but dark looks, Short answers and the old defiant stride.

Forgotten while Teresita held back with one hand a black lock which the wind was trying to fling across her eyes, and murmured mocking commiseration over the half obliterated callouses on Jack's hand, Dade loitered across the patio, remembering many things whose very sweetness made the present hurt more bitter.

Modern manners preferred the river terrace, as a pleasant place on which to loiter after dinner, to watch the boats flashing by in the evening light, or the sun going down behind a fringe of willows on the opposite bank.

Yesterday I lunched with Lukomski; in the evening I loitered as usual on the Pincio.

It contains several public buildings, such as the Post-office, the Custom-house, the Exchange, the Guard-house, etc.; all of which, however, are so insignificant in appearance, that any one would pass them by unnoticed, if there were not always a number of people loitering before them.

I told Lily-mother she would be ashamed to have me loiter behind the sons of her acquaintance, and that Mr. Seward said it was only an affair of sixty days.

Matilda loitered between his legs ... and then, I regret to say, the C.S.M. applied the same epithet to Matilda that Brown had applied to him.

While we were loitering down the river, later in the afternoon, an eagle made its appearance far overhead, the first one of the day.

To have him amused, loitering from reading-room to parade or billiard-room, had been all that she aspired to, and only lately had she unwillingly awakened to the sense how and why this wasand why the family were aliens in their ancestral home.