Example Sentences

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"I begin to feel guilty of neglect of duty while I am loafing about home."

From A Victorious Union by Optic, Oliver

I gave the raft away yesterday at Arles, and am loafing along back by short stages on the rail to Ouchy-Lausanne where the tribe are staying.

From Mark Twain's Letters — Volume 4 (1886-1900) by Paine, Albert Bigelow

So now I am loafing about; as true as I believe in God, I have had nothing to eat for two days.” 

From What to Do? by Hapgood, Isabel Florence