loafe

• “Lie in a field and take Walt Whitman's lead: "I lean and loafe at my ease observing a spear of summer grass.”

  The Huffington Post: Daniel Cook: What Brazilians Can Teach Us About Relaxation

• “At length, the Abbot not comming, and Primasso having eaten up his second loafe, hunger compeld him to begin with the third.”

  The Decameron

• “Also they weare vpon their heads certain sharpe, and high crowned hats made of felt much like vnto a sugar loafe.”

  The iournal of frier William de Rubruquis a French man of the order of the minorite friers, vnto the East parts of the worlde. An. Dom. 1253.

• ““I loafe and invite my soul,” said the American poet, Walt Whitman.”

  Simon & Schuster: Experiencing the Next World Now

• “Westerly withall, so that by a Northwest sunne we were at an anker among the Islands of Vaigats, where we saw two small lodias, the one of them came aboard of vs, and presented me with a great loafe of bread: and they told me that they were all of Colmogro, except one man that dwelt at Pechora, who seemed to be the chiefest among them in killing of the Morse.”

  The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation

• “Lord, in the 7082. yeere of the worlds creation, thy Maiesties treasurer, named Gregorie Mekitowich Borozden, tooke of vs for thy vse 12. poods of loafe sugar, prised at 8. robles the pood, which sugar was sent to the Sloboda [Marginal note: The Emperours house of recreation.].”

  The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation

• “[The English ship cut in pieces with yce] There they remained that night, hauing nothing to eat but one loafe of bread, which they happened to finde with the two”

  The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation

• “The master of the boate presented me with a great loafe of bread, and sixe ringes of bread, which they call Colaches, and foure dryed pikes, and a pecke of fine otemeale, and I gaue vnto the Master of the boate, a combe, and a small glasse: and he declared vnto me, that he was bound to”

  The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation

• “At my being there I could haue bought many goodly Tartars children, if I would haue had a thousand, of their owne fathers and mothers, to say a boy or a wench for a loafe of bread woorth sixe pence in England, but we had more need of victuals at that time then of any such merchandise.”

  The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation

• “They be made round like a sugar loafe, some are as high as a Church, very broad beneath, some a quarter of a mile in compasse: within they be all earth done about with stone.”

  The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation

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