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"I thought you had some notion of staying here and taking a course of graduate study." "No, sir! The sooner a man gets into harness, the better. I've wasted enough time in the last four years. The longer a man loafs around in this old place, under pretense of reading and that kind of thing, the harder it is for him to take hold." Armstrong was a rosy little man, with yellow hair and light eyes.
When a farmer who hasn't much money loafs about the poolroom and lies on his back, smoking, it's plain that he's taking advantage of somebody else. Perhaps the thing's shabbiest when he puts his responsibilities on his wife. That's what Bob does." "I'm afraid he does," Helen admitted, and mused, while Festing lighted his pipe.
"Tell 'em to let it stay that way now," continued the engineer. "Tell 'em all to hold fast, those that have the ropes. The others paddle for the shore as fast as they can and damn the man that loafs now!" The patriarch conveyed the essence of these instructions to the oarsmen, and now, convoyed by the outlying boats, the ten canoes moved very slowly toward the village.
The much-vaunted Gibson Girl is a kind of de luxe edition of Shaw's Disagreeable Girl. The Gibson Girl lolls, loafs, pouts, weeps, talks back, lies in wait, dreams, eats, drinks, sleeps and yawns.
He says he hopes Safety don't fall too easy, because he wants more chance to work it up. But Sandy is doomed to disappointment. Safety holds off only two days more. Two days he loafs round at mealtimes, listening to their rich converse and saying he'd like to know who's a better friend of this outfit than he's been for twenty years.
I won't tell you what I had to pay for that poem; but I'll tell you this Riley can make more money writing with a fountain-pen than you or I can with one that lets the ink run. I'll read you the last two stanzas: "'Pa lays around 'n' loafs all day, 'N' reads and makes us leave him be.
What unnatural law governs the world that starves myself and family who work, and over-feeds the pet dog of the aristocrat, who loafs? The Church teaches me that God rules the universe, and that in order to please Him I must be contented with my lot. Can I believe this unreasonable doctrine of the Church? Can I give thanks to such a god?"
And it does seem to me that when a young man gets to be twenty five or six, and never did a lick of work in his life, and loafs around clubs and plays polo just because he's got a rich uncle, why, it's a sort of a reflection on both of 'em. Seem so to you?" Henry glanced up nervously and down again. "To tell the truth, I hadn't thought much about it." "Say," said his uncle, confidentially.
Do you think Nick will persuade him to go?" "He can't stop to lunch if he isn't asked," said Max. "An unwelcome visitor?" asked Sir Kersley. "Yes, a neighbour of ours," explained Olga. "He lives about two miles away at a place called The Warren. He is retired from the Army. He shoots and hunts in the winter and loafs all the summer." "A very horrid man," said Max with a twinkle.
"Careful of that stick, my man," says he. "Oh, sure!" says I. "Puppah'd be wild if anything happened to it, wouldn't he?" And you should have heard the talk they had as they loafs around the cloakroom between the numbers, all about the awful things they did at prep school, how they bunked the masters, and smuggled brandied peaches up to their rooms, and rough-housed durin' mornin' prayers.
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