And he looked round, blushing not a little, to the knot of gentlemen, his gaming associates, who were lounging at the tables or gathered round the fire.
There, however, is my cousin Castlewood, lounging over the Public Advertiser, having just come off from his duty at Court hard by.
Harry saw the profound truth conveyed in George's statement, and admired his brother's immense sagacity.
It is uncommonly queer," admitted de Cartienne, who was loungingagainst the wall beside us.
Several ladies and one or two men were lounging on divans and in easy chairs around a brightly-blazing fire.
I suppose not," de Cartienne answered, lounging across the room towards the door.
Here were lounging and siesta, rest for body and mind, sweet "do well a very little!
Further on, his horse fell badly lame and he stayed day after day in a miserable village, lounging under a cork-tree, learning patois.
Vengeance Begins Some two years later Caspar Caderousse, the keeper of an inn near Beaucaire, was lounging listlessly at his door, when a traveller on horseback dismounted at his door and entered.
At odd times I speculated on the possibility of not being taught any more or cared for any more, and growing up to be a shabby, moody man, lounging an idle life away about the village.
During his sickness he had grown into a habit of indolence, and he spent a great deal of his time lounging inertly thus upon the bench in the kitchen.
It was well toward the middle of the day, and Jack was lounging in his berth, when Dred suddenly appeared in the steerage.
A sort of indolent life stirred in the place, and further down the street a lot of men were lounging in front of a building that looked as if it might be a store of some sort.
A number of men stood lounging on the landing, watching the approach of the boat.
For things did not look pleasant in Dumford; men were always standing about in knots or lounging at the doors of their houses, looking loweringly at people who passed.
Sauntering or lounging is as little possible as it is in London.
The diggers were playing with their glistening knives as diggers only can; the soldiers--their huge sombreros worn loosely on one side--were lounging idly in the sun.
He is capable of something far better than lounging through life with his hands in his pockets, and loafing around the world.
Whatever keeps a man in the front garden, whatever checks wandering fancy and all inordinate ambition, whatever makes for lounging and contentment, makes just so surely for domestic happiness.
He carried me up to a throng of foppish young men who were lounging on the steps of the hotel.
I saw two young men lounging up the aisle from the rear door.
As the stable keeper was a stranger to him, he did not think it necessary to disguise his voice; but spoke in his natural tone, and a youth who was lounging about the office started and gave him a keen, curious glance.
They were alone in Cissy's dainty room, lounging at ease in their pretty dressing-gowns.
Margaret looked, and a figure lounging against one of the doorposts of the house took her look for himself and bowed.
At any rate, the fact of the accident brings me back from lounging up and down Mantua to my grave duty of chronicler.
It was a pretty slick way that you caught us," began the mate, lounging near Hal as he stood on deck.
There are reading and writing rooms at the "club," and other features that make it a somewhat pleasant loungingplace for young officers in their few leisure hours.
As she was putting the last touches to her hair she heard a murmur of voices on the terrace, and peering out cautiously, beheld her uncle and Sybert lounging on the parapet engaged with cigarettes.
Sybert was lounging in the doorway leading on to the loggia.
The light was dim; just one small night light burning, and Mrs. Horton sat down in her favorite lounging chair and gave herself up to her unhappy thoughts.
Came a day when the nurse smilingly helped her into a big lounging chair and stood by looking on while a hairdresser straightened and trimmed the haggled locks into a perfectly docked hair cut.
He did not see Robert lounging on a divan in a dim corner of the big room as he said, "Mrs. Horton, this check that you have given me to date is made out to John Carver and of course I could not cash it.
She dressed swiftly, he lounging on the sofa and watching her.
He was standing before it, looking taller and stronger than ever, in a gray lounging suit.
A policeman, a big German, with stupid honest face, brutal yet kindly, came lounging along.
When she returned there was always a crowd lounging about the landing waiting to gape at her and whisper.
And Jack Kinnison, lounging idly and elegantly in the concourse of Danopolis Spaceport, seethed imperceptibly.
Ostentatiously turning his back upon the lounging Kinnison, Northrop stepped carefully over three or four breadboard hookups and stared into the plate over the watch officer's shoulder.
In an instant the train from Albany broke into sight from the woods above, and came thundering down, barely giving the passengers who had been lounging on the track, time to drag themselves and their baggage out of the way.
Sheffield followed him in, and found Charles in his cap and gown, lounging on the arm of his easy-chair, and eating his bread and cheese.
He had drawn up a softly-cushioned lounging chair to the fire, and was peacefully smoking a remarkably good cigar.
The men were lounging and smoking about the courtyard.
Groups of youths were lounging around the lanes, smoking cigarettes and passing rustic jokes.
As I walked through the village I came upon a number of miners lounging around, with, apparently, nothing to do.
As he had expected Daniel Culser was present, and rose to greet him negligently, from a lounging attitude on the sofa.
He wondered again, loungingback against the wall, about the French forts, outposts in a vast wilderness.
There's no good asking you," he told Howat, lounging in the door of the counting room.
As for the men, on whose arms they leaned, their careless and loungingairs were intended to give the idea of a surfeit of pleasure, and to make one think that the disordered appearance of their companions was a sure triumph they had enjoyed.
But if the Parisians are lounging about from morning till night, enjoying everything around them, a foreigner like myself ought to have been a greater 'badaud' than they!
