The time comes when grass-loafers will stand a lot of ordering off; in extreme cases, such as the one under review, they are about equal in tenacity to the Scythians or the Cimbri of olden times.
There was the usual bar at one end, the usual noise going on inside, and the usual groups of bushloafers outside.
A number of Bushmen and loafers were drinking in the bar, and others were on the edge of the veranda dangling their legs over it into the street.
There were other loafers in flannel shirts, hitched up trousers and greasy felt or cabbage-tree hats, and there were two or three blacks of the demoralised type seen in coast townships.
And I tell you what, if you go harbouring any more conspiring loafers you'll get into trouble.
Loafers all three, and up to no good," was his mental estimation of them, "but devilish awkward customers to tackle.
The landlord's till was full of money, the loafers were full of liquor, and the doctor's heart was full of vanity and trust in himself.
The motley throng of loafers sidled up to the bar with a deprecatory and automatic movement.
At the moment when Stephen was sounding the horn to summon the young mystic to his supper, a promiscuous crowd of loafers with chairs tilted against the wall of the village tavern received a shock.
Behind them the loafers snickered and passed quips of doubtful humor and undoubted obscenity, but careful to present the face of decorum until Morgan was well beyond their voices.
Whether these were guests waiting supper, or merely loafers waiting anything that might happen next, Morgan had not been long enough in town to determine.
Some of the loafers were standing by their chairs in attitude of indecision, others sat leaning forward to see and hear.
The stage loafers shifted quids and looked after him with sneers.
They had reached the theatre; a few loafers sunning themselves by the stage entrance leered at them.
Mr. Brackett, raising his voice and glancing toward Broadway's store platform where loafers were listening.
Now you loafers standin' round gawpin, you grab anything that will scoop dirt and get to work diggin' here.
He put his arm about the indignant Cap'n and drew him in where the loafers couldn't listen, and continued his anxious coaxings until at last Cap'n Sproul kicked and stamped his way into the kitchen, cursing so horribly that the cat fled.
So tempestuous was the rush of the pung that the loafers in Broadway's store hustled out to watch.
You have no occasion for it on the river, and there are loafers hanging about at every landing who would think nothing of knocking a man on the head if they thought he had got fifty dollars in his pocket.
There's no greater place for loafers than New Orleans, and a chap who will really work will soon make his mark.
Yet, withal, evenloafers can be saved from their mockery of an existence, but different means from the stereotyped ones of the present day must be employed.
Corner loafers are despised by all people who lead useful lives, and justly so.
Loafers are forever hovering in the ante-room of crime.
Our optimistic journals his exasperation fire, And the idlers and the loafers stimulate his righteous ire; But it is the flapper chiefly that in his gizzard sticks, And he's down upon her failings like a waggon-load of bricks.
The people of Calcutta put a man in a little lodge close to the gate of their house, in order that loafers may be turned away, and the houses protected from theft.
A small volume might be written of the ways and the tales of Indian loafers of the more brilliant order--such Chevaliers of the Order of Industry as would throw their glasses in your face did you call them loafers.
The loafers stared boldly at Virginia Aydelot as she rode up before the livery stable and slipped from her saddle.
She was nearly forty years old, as the railroad station loafers had declared, but there was nothing about her to indicate the "old maid, set in her ways.
Doctor Carey had not startled the same old loafers who kept watch over the railway station when he suddenly dropped into the town again.
All the money that the working classes had saved up in the Post Office and the Friendly Societies, was to be Robbed from them and divided up amongst a lot of drunken loafers who were too lazy to work.
They are no better mentally or morally than any of the other loafers in that division; neither are they of any more use.
If all the loafers in Mugsborough could suddenly be transformed into decent house painters next week, Nimrod might be able to cut down the wages another penny an hour.
Another thing that added to his embarrassment was the jeering of the other sandwichmen, the loafers outside the public houses, and the boys, who shouted 'old Jack in the box' after him.
Then there is another kind of loafers who go about begging and occasionally starving rather than submit to such abominable conditions as are offered to them.
Crass said that anyone could see that they were a lot of lazy, drunken loafers who had never done a fair day's work in their lives and never intended to.
Loafers and talkers and writers,--Read ye the Verses of Rud.
Loafers from the tavern across the way came over, children gathered in little groups, people who had never entered a place of worship stopped and listened.
There was a cab-stand in the next street, and to avoid the cabmen and the loafers she hastily crossed to the other side.
The German method of dealing with vagrants and loafers may be studied in its practical details with great advantage by visiting the Labour House of Benninghausen, in the Prussian Province of Westphalia.
To these institutions, differentiated according as they were intended for hopeful or for incorrigible cases, all vagrants and loafers should, after due warning, be committed for a period sufficiently long for disciplinary purposes.
Substantially this was the method of treating loafers practised in Holland at that time.
It must be remembered that the Vagrancy Committee were called upon to inquire into the case of wayfarers exclusively; nevertheless, some of their recommendations are equally applicable to loafers of other classes.
So far did the farce go, that police constables were at last told off to assist the loafers to perform their perambulations with due convenience and order.
It would not be unreasonable to apply to alien loafers the summary treatment which their own Governments do not hesitate to enforce.
In the absence of institutions for the detention of loafers such as exist in Continental countries, these loafers are able to abuse the Poor Law at will, and snap their fingers at the police.
He was really surprised, but after some palaver he let me in together with the two loafers carrying my luggage.
The three dismal, sodden loafers (I could see them too; they hadn't budged an inch) seemed to me to be watching her.
And he envied also the miserable sallow, thin-faced loafers blinking their obscene eyes and rubbing their greasy shoulders against the doorjambs of the Black Horse pub, because they were too far gone to feel their degradation.
I do, unless I'm late, an' then I have to give a couple o' them loafers around there a quarter apiece to help.
We've heaps of loafers always round our camps, and a sly fellow might easily pick up information and take it to the enemy.
There were many loafers about, and I shrank from going out and mounting in my old Hawaiian riding dress, though Dr.
Neither he nor any of the loafers who had assembled showed the slightest sign of astonishment, but all were as respectful as possible.
We had pulled up at the door of a rough Western hotel, with a partially open front, being a bar-room crowded with men drinking and smoking, and the space between it and the cars was a moving mass of loafers and passengers.
A sleepy German waiter seemed the only person about the premises, the open drinking saloons were nearly empty, and only a few sleepy-looking loafers hung about in what is called the street.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "loafers" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
