They keep such a dingdong about "supporting the Constitution." One might imagine it was some miserable, decrepit old creature that... was no longer able to totter on crutches but must be held on every side, and dragged along like a drunken loafer, on his road to the lock-up.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The man who does not betake himself at once and desperately to sawing is called a loafer, though he may be knocking at the doors o...f heaven all the while.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
If a man walk in the woods for love of them half of each day, he is in danger of being regarded as a loafer; but if he spends his ...whole day as a speculator, shearing off those woods and making earth bald before her time, he is esteemed an industrious and enterprising citizen. As if the town had no interest in its forests but to cut them down!LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »