The Connoisseur 82 (1755) [ Practices ]
… always to " keep a watch over the doors of " our lips." A LOWNGER is a creature, that you will often fee lolling in a coffee-house, or sauntering about the streets, with great calmness, and a most inflexible stupidity in his countenance. He takes …
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