"Lounger" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... most interesting account of the rise of Sixtus V, see the new volume of the Lounger's Common-place Book, ...
— The Works of John Bunyan • John Bunyan
... Antigone he dislikes as having the faults of both ancient and modern drama. He grinds away through Gifford's Pitt, and reads Hallam's Middle Ages. 'My method has usually been, 1, to read over regularly; 2, to glance again over all I have read, and analyse.' He was just as little of the lounger in his lighter reading. Schiller's plays he went through with attention, finding it 'a good plan to read along with history, historical plays of the same events for material illustration, as well as aid to the memory.' He read Scott's ...
— The Life of William Ewart Gladstone, Vol. 1 (of 3) - 1809-1859 • John Morley
... against the wall. The lounger, propped on elbows, finished his smoke, spat upon the tiles, and ...
— Dragon's blood • Henry Milner Rideout
... neither a lounger nor a dormeuse, nor a Cooper, nor a Nelson, nor a Kangaroo: a chair without a name would never do; in all things fashionable a name is more than half. Such a happy name as Kangaroo Lady ...
— A Dictionary of Austral English • Edward Morris
... Lady Woodford? Yes, indeed, ma'am. I asked every where for it; and I might have brought it from Mr. Frederick's, but Lady Slattern Lounger, who had just sent it home, had so soiled and dog's-eared it, it wa'n't fit for ...
— The Rivals - A Comedy • Richard Brinsley Sheridan
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