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Mrs. Galland came down the path from the veranda loiteringly, pausing to look at the flowers and again at the sweep of hills and plain.

From The Last Shot by Palmer, Frederick

He went ever more and more loiteringly, for his father did not appear.

From John March, Southerner by Cable, George W.

How slowly and loiteringly it came, and how microscopic its first siftings!

From A Year in the Fields by Burroughs, John

At length, when the dancers began to return in quest of liquor, they rose and went away loiteringly through the trees.

From Malcolm by MacDonald, George

And a steamer leaves several times a day to take you there, gently and loiteringly, in the Venetian manner, in two hours, with pauses at odd little places en route.

From A Wanderer in Venice by Morley, Harry