It creates a horde of SOTS and idlers, makes gapers and gazers and newsmongers of the common people, and knowing jockeys of the country bumpkins.
"Bracebridge Hall, or The Humorists"
Washington Irving
Well, you know me, when Abe Pike SOTS out to do a thing he does it, an' arter I had smoked two pipes, I resoomed my way, jest as unconcarned as you are, for all the plain meanin' o' the baboon that I should go away home.
"Tales from the Veld"
Ernest Glanville
I looked around me on every side; I groped beneath the table; I turned the sleeping SOTS who lay about in no very gentle fashion; but, alas, it was gone.
"The Confessions of Harry Lorrequer, Complete"
Charles James Lever (1806-1872)