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,

No more loitering in my lady's bower; Jack, my boy, the carpet will be clear for your knightly pranks after to-night.

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.

Refilling a Sarsaparilla bottle, for instance, or getting up a masquerade ball or going fishing or playing on Sunday or loitering about a building to overhear what people are talking about inside" "That's no crime," protested the captain scornfully.

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.

The river steamers had stopped running, and there were crowds of flaneurs loitering on the quais and bridges wondering if the cold would last long enough for the river to be quite frozen over.

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.

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.

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

After wandering and loitering by rivers too well fed by the mountains to dry completely up like the perfidious little Alzou, I have returned to Roc-Amadour, my headquarters, the summer being far advanced.

That from myriad spicy cups distils, Loitering along o'er the locust-trees.

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.

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

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.

Mrs. Hamilton's sons had been trained to obedience, and James never thought of lingering and loitering for half an hour, as I have seen some boys do, after being told to go.

It is to three of these chance loiterings of this Kipling of Rome in its decadence that we owe the famous stories alluded to above.

When you have finished the discussion, repeat it immediatelyand with no more loitering than before.

There are many on the continent who might far better have been treading their turnip-fields, or superintending their warehouses at home, than traversing the Alps, criticising the Pantheon, or loitering through the galleries of the Vatican.

Treading the expanse of daisy-starred emerald lawns, loitering under the elms in the Band Concourse, or wandering through the dwarf trees patterned against humpback bridges in the Japanese Tea Garden, you find new lures in Golden Gate Park with each successive visit.