He had developed quite naturally into a common street loafer in Chicago, preying on the generosity of his old acquaintance and living the besotted life of a degenerate.
Why ain't that loafer in the parade where he belongs?
By the door of my cab a loafer was standing; a tall tatterdemalion with a pale, bearded face.
What was more to my purpose, it was rapid, for we should have been done in five minutes more, but that some devil tempted some loafer in a gallery to cry, "Face!
The outer end of it had been carried upon the lock-side by some chance or blunder, and there some idle loafer had thrown the looped bight of it over a hawser-post.
I to do when a ragged loafer like you came in and showed me a diamond worth a thousand pounds and told me he had dozens, hundreds, more like it?
On the front window there was no blind, only a small, much-worn curtain covering the lower panes, and he did not want any stray loafer to gaze in at him and discover a large quantity of luggage in such a disreputable hovel.
On a bench nearby a frowzy loafer opened his red eyes and perceived that his moral support was due a downtrodden brother.
Loafer and reprobate though he had been, he had been also a warrior.
I'd just fired the fourth loafer in one day for trying to roll barrels by mental suggestion, when the boss came into my office.
It was the brightest young dream that was ever busted by a fatloafer in brass buttons.
Are you the loafer who spent all one night getting a profane parrot into the cold-air pipes of the college chapel?
The old gray check suit, frayed at the edges, close buttoned and shabby, was just such a suit as any loafer out of Union Street might have worn.
A soldier gets paid and fed, and the other loafer doesn't," retorted Bunny, with a broadening grin.
I told him he was a loafer and told him we wouldn't get off the bench for anybody like him.
There were several others present among whom the loafer type was perhaps in the ascendant.
The son saw in this tragic circumstance the outcome and the reward of labour, swore a solemn oath never to do a stroke of work again, threw up his job, and from that day became a confirmed loafer in the Anarchist party.
The London loafer has little wit or imagination, and their comments did not rise above the stale inquiry as to where we kept our bombs, and the equally original advice bestowed upon Kosinksi to get 'is 'air cut.
He seemed to play fairly, but there was not a loafer in Moscow who had not become timid about playing with Dave; the long run of luck was ever on his side.
But I'm no more a gambler and a loafer than you are.
Bob was in the middle of a hunting yarn which he was lazily telling to another loafer on the next barrel as he whittled a bit of hickory stripped from one of the hoops in front of him.
I'd bet on Porter every time," said a burly loafer by the name of Tom Flatt, "if he only had a fair show.
Why, man, have you entirely lost possession of your senses, to let a leech like that loafer drain you dry?
He was the most interesting loafer that I had the pleasure of knowing for a long time; and later on, he became a friend of mine.
Even Futteh Khan, the villainousloafer khit from Mussoorie, shirked risking Tods' displeasure for fear his co-mates should look down on him.
Unluckily, one cannot visit a loafer in the Serai by day.
Boss loafer of Bickerbray, and promoted in the army as Sergeant Trap's fifer.
How did you get me through--big, ignorantloafer that I've been all my life.
I ought to whip every drunken loafer on those streets.
Have you fooled me, tricked me--made a loaferof me?
The societies have their use, but that is no reason why a man's fellows should not be enlisted in his aid; though they have no interest in the general question, they may take an interest in the special case.
The children of crofters do go back in times of depression, returning to their father's holding and working there; but the others swell the ranks of the unemployed and are in peril of degeneration into the loaferor criminal.
He had given up the idea of work and had degenerated from a good citizen to a loafer and, later, to a drunkard.
Because he knows how easily and safely the loafer could avenge himself if sent empty away--and how well the loafer knows that he knows it.
Why does the Australian pastoralist provide free board and lodging for every loafer that comes for them, instead of kicking him out and telling him to go to work?
Cox abandoned tobacco after a drunken loafer asked him for a light.
Whoever heard of a first-class loafer who did not e-a-t the weed or burn it, or both?
The city loafer of Seville is a miserable specimen, and his insolence on the street is a constant outrage, but the country labrador does much to redeem him.
