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Shall I sit with a novel over the fire? Shall I take life at second-hand and work up an interest in imaginary loves and the exigencies of shadows? What are all the firesides and fictions of the world to me that I should loiter here and doze, doze, as good as die? They tell me it is a fine thing to take a little walk before bed-time. I go out into the suburban street.
"Will you not tell me why you are alone here, Lois?" "Tell you what? Tell you why I loiter by our soldiers' camps like any painted drab? I will tell you this much; I need no longer play that shameless role." "You need not use those words in the same breath when speaking of yourself," I answered hotly.
He knew, as much as one could know from the few tiny apertures leading to the cramped little cell of the brain, that it was in his best interest to leave his toilet theatre of one and loiter in the aisle of bunks.
When I reached the ancient capital of the world, I possessed only seven paoli, and consequently I did not loiter about.
There is no great risk in establishing this observation as an axiom in literature; for should a prefacer loiter, it is never difficult to get rid of lame persons, by escaping from them; and the reader may make a preface as concise as he chooses. It is possible for an author to paint himself in amiable colours, in this useful page, without incurring the contempt of egotism.
The worst of the critics is useful to us; he is a trainer: he does not let us loiter by the way. Whenever we think we have reached the goal, the pack hound us on. Get on! Onward! Upward! They are more likely to weary of running after me than I am of marching ahead of them. Remember the Arabian proverb: 'It is no use flogging sterile trees.
The execution was sure to be slower than the intention, and, in fact, Grandcourt did loiter through the next day without giving any distinct orders about departure perhaps because he discerned that Lush was expecting them: he lingered over his toilet, and certainly came down with a faded aspect of perfect distinction which made fresh complexions and hands with the blood in them, seem signs of raw vulgarity; he lingered on the terrace, in the gambling-rooms, in the reading-room, occupying himself in being indifferent to everybody and everything around him.
Don't loiter on the way." "Yes, sir." Philip took the key and left the warehouse. When he reached the street he said to himself: "I wonder where the post-office is?" He did not like to confess to Mr. Sanderson that he did not know, for it would probably have been considered a disqualification for the post which he was filling. "I had better walk to Broadway," he said to himself.
Since the winter, life has made me lonely and small; I idle and loiter here, remembering that once things were different. Now that I have reached daylight and men again, I begin to understand all this. I was a different person once. The wave has its feathered crest, and so had I; wine has its fire, and so had I. Neurasthenia, the ape of all the diseases, pursues me. What then?
'Whose else's do you think? replied the woman. 'He isn't likely to take cold without 'em, I dare say. 'I hope he didn't die of anything catching? Eh? said old Joe, stopping in his work, and looking up. 'Don't you be afraid of that, returned the woman. 'I an't so fond of his company that I'd loiter about him for such things, if he did.
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