Loitering

Examples

• I had heard them, alone at the bedside, striking their boots with their riding-whips, and loitering up and down. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
• Much relieved when the two hours were at last accomplished, he went away at a quick pace, as a recompense for so much loitering. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
• Why have you been loitering so, Sam? Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• Did you ask her whether in leaving she met any one or saw any one loitering about Charles Street? Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
• They were loitering somewhere, talking about him. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• We loitered down to the Temple stairs, and stood loitering there, as if we were not quite decided to go upon the water at all. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• This,' said the man: 'I saw three boys: two others and the prisoner here: loitering on the opposite side of the way, when this gentleman was reading. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
• You will own, I think, that I have got you over the ground this time, without much loitering by the way. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• Ginevra was long in coming: tedious seemed her loitering. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• Why, I spend half my life now, pretty well, loitering and dodging about his door. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• No person whatever had been seen loitering about the premises. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• They were annoying Mr. Luker, I answered, by loitering about the house at Lambeth. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• As he seems to be loitering in this direction, it may be as well, perhaps, to walk towards him, and throw ourselves in his way. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
• He says he's worn sham whiskers, and a canary waistcoat, the whole blessed time he's been loitering down there, and it's all of no use. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
• And yet my thoughts were idle; not intent on the calamity that weighed upon my heart, but idly loitering near it. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• She seems after all, observes Mr. Tulkinghorn, loitering a little forward with his hands behind him, as if she were crying at going away. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• But, what with loitering on the way to look at old objects and to think of old times, the day had quite declined when I came to the place. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• Send these loitering knaves up hither, said the Saxon, impatiently. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.

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