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If somebody comes on and is a bonehead and is loafing through an interview, I resent that, and maybe I will then go after them.

From Time Magazine Archive

"A promoted constable in plain clothes is loafing about the neighbouring public-houses, and standing drinks, generally without the exercise of much discrimination, to unlikely people."

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 98, March 22, 1890 by Various

“I don’t obsarve that any one is loafing about here, getting in the way of honest folks.”

From The Cave in the Mountain A Sequel to In the Pecos Country / by Lieut. R. H. Jayne by Ellis, Edward Sylvester

But I did hear him say that Latisan is loafing in New York and is prob’ly in jail by this time.”

From Joan of Arc of the North Woods by Day, Holman

Can't do it," replied Leopold; "my stomach is loafing, too.

From Quincy Adams Sawyer and Mason's Corner Folks A Picture of New England Home Life by Pidgin, Charles Felton