loiter

The group loitered away, still re- calling memories of the lost heroes, in awed voices.

As I once more got under way, my thoughts slowly loitered back to the theme which had been occupying them before I dropped asleep.

She loitered near the doors of saloons and watched men emerge from them.

The harvest of the first year of our possession had long been passed, and the fading foliage of a few scattered trees was already beginning to exhibit the hues and tints of autumn, when a train of wagons issued from the bed of a dry rivulet, to pursue its course across the undulating surface, of what, in the language of the country of which we write, is called a "rolling prairie." The vehicles, loaded with household goods and implements of husbandry, the few straggling sheep and cattle that were herded in the rear, and the rugged appearance and careless mien of the sturdy men who loitered at the sides of the lingering teams, united to announce a band of emigrants seeking for the Elderado of the West.

If I loitered on the playground after school, or went to the post-office for the mail and lingered to hear the gossip about the cigar-stand, it would be growing dark by the time I came home.

Finally it was all over, and it seemed to Rebecca as if she should never be cool and calm again, as she loitered on the homeward path.

Vagrant Indians, of various tribes, loitered about the streets.

I loitered about awhile, and then, for want of something better to do, fell to carving a railing with my knife.

It was a weak fancy perhaps, the childish fancy of a young and lonely creature; but night after night, and still the sisters loitered in the same place, and still the child followed with a mild and softened heart.

One of the beggars at the ATM station, who gave her name as Zainab Abass, told Saturday Tribune that she usually comes there to beg for money in the evening, 'Because beggars are usually not allowed to loiter around the ATM point and near the bank in the morning and afternoon.