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Sentences starting with idle

Idle and keen perceptions guided them equally. [13]
Idle and shiftless and evil ye are, while the earth cries out to give you of its plenty, a great harvest from a little seed, if ye will but dig and plant, and plough and sow and reap, and lend your backs to toil. [11]

Sentences ending with idle

In my opinion, your good swords have been rather long idle. [10]
So the shops will be idle. [9]
A number of wharfboat clerks were needed, and part of the time, every day, they were very busy, and part of the time tediously idle. [5]
Meantime their tongues were not idle. [10]
At Great Malvern we were deliciously idle. [6]
While I was visiting Mr. Gosse at Cambridge, A---- was not idle. [6]
Foolish things come to the idle. [11]
He wrote afterwards to his brother-in-law, Servianus, his fullest recognition of both the wealth and the industry of Alexandrians, saying, with terms of praise, that among them not one was idle. [10]
An inner voice tells us we are in the wrong if we are idle. [2]
Why do ye stand here idle? [11]

Short sentences using idle

They are idle now. [9]
These were no idle words. [10]
You're living an idle life. [11]

Sentences containing idle two or more times

In Mark Twain's Bermuda chapters entitled Idle Notes of an Idle Excursion he tells of an old sea captain, one Hurricane Jones, who explained biblical miracles in a practical, even if somewhat startling, fashion. [5]

More example sentences with the word idle in them

Clemens would naturally write something about Bermuda, and began at once, "Random Notes of an Idle Excursion," and presently completed four papers, which Howells eagerly accepted for the Atlantic. [5]
Come, vagrant, outcast, wretch forlorn In leather jerkin stained and torn, Whose talk has filled my idle hour And made me half forget the shower, I'll do at least as much for you, Your coat I'll patch, your gilt renew, Read you,--perhaps,--some other time. [6]
Into a New World wandered I, A world austere, sublime; And unseen feet came sauntering by; A voice with ardent chime Rang down the idle lanes of sleep; I waked: the night was still; I saw my star its sentry keep Along a southern hill. [11]
Love is not won in a breath, Idle, impassioned and sure; Why should not love then endure, Challenging doubt to the last? [11]
He was taken with a cold about three weeks ago, and I stepped over one evening, proposing to beguile an idle hour for him with a yarn or two, but was received at the door with whispers, and the information that he was dying. [5]
Thousand 'stapes of wit Make thee the father of their idle dream, And rack thee in their fancies! [6]
The steadfast man, who sat so silently with frowning brow among his family, sometimes attacking the viands on his plate, then leaving them untouched, did not look like one who yields to idle whims. [10]
Yet the practitioner who prescribes the nitrate of silver supposes he is guided by the solemn experience of the past, instead of by its idle fancies. [6]
Her fingers, however, which used to be so skilful, either broke the threads they tried to spin, or lay for hours idle in her lap, while she was lost in dreams. [10]
He represents that what food "he carefully provided the rest carelessly spent," and there is probably much truth in his charges that the settlers were idle and improvident. [4]
If these men were not to be idle, it was needful that they should be summoned to the battle-field. [10]
The dull speaker wearies it and sends it far away in idle dreams; the bright speaker throws out stimulating ideas which it goes chasing after and is at once unconscious of him and his talk. [5]
The magician's scorn was stirred, and he said: "Lo, I have seen many wonderful soothsayers and prophets and magicians in my life days, but none before that could sit idle and see to the heart of things with never an incantation to help. [5]
But idle lamenting was of as little use here as at any other time; so she resolutely drew her veil closer round her head and called to her brother, "Wait here till I return! [10]
The first hour was all fun, all idle nonsense and laughter. [5]
At home he wandered around no longer, idle and fasting, but ate his meals regularly, and threw himself into his work with such passionate energy, that even the industrious Schimmel found it too much, and Frau Schimmel grew anxious. [10]
These explorations and visits gave him material for future use, and exercised his pen in agreeable correspondence; but his tendency at this time, and for several years afterwards, was to the idle life of a man of society. [4]
But he was very much absorbed, and apparently more idle than ever. [4]
Clemens had been urged to consult her, and one idle afternoon concluded to make the experiment. [5]
But now, as under the spell of a new encompassment of her own weaving, she seemed to revert to her former self, sinking, relaxed, into a wicker lounge beside the basin, one long and shapely hand in the water, the other idle in her lap. [9]
I have been trying, ever since I have been here, to ascertain the price of oranges; not for purposes of exportation, nor yet for the personal importation that I daily practice, but in order to give an American basis of fact to these idle chapters. [4]
The river-driver chose to spend his idle hours in crude, rough sprightliness; the salmon-fisher loved to lie upon the shore and listen to the village story-teller,--almost official when successful,--who played upon the credulity and imagination of his listeners. [11]
It is idle to speculate on the phenomenon taking place within her, and it may merely be remarked in passing that she possessed a quality which, in a man, leads to a career and fame. [9]
It is idle to say that the thing which can transform a man's entire nature and life is not a reality. [9]
What had seemed to him grand, lofty, and worthy of the exertion of all his strength on that night when he sat before the tent where lay the delirious Ephraim, to-day lay far behind him as idle and worthless. [10]
Science has undertaken to fathom it, and the results which it gains with measures and numbers is of a different value and more lasting than that which the idle sport of the intellects of the older philosophers obtained. [10]
It is needless to explain that a Gothic religious life is not an idle one. [4]
Then she fell to conning the titles again, finding a delight in the inspection of the Hawthornes, the Longfellows, the Tennysons, and other favorites of her idle hours. [5]
Most of the time had been taken up with apparently idle and purposeless inquiries about the Chinon events, the exiled Duke of Orleans, Joan's first proclamation, and so on, but all this seemingly random stuff had really been sown thick with hidden traps. [5]
We bought our tickets, and then went wandering around here and there, in the solid comfort of being free and idle, and of putting distance between ourselves and the mails and telegraphs. [5]
Love does not thrive without hope, and Cyprian was beginning to see that it was idle in him to think of folding these wide wings of Myrtle's so that they would be shut up in any cage he could ever offer her. [6]
It seems idle, therefore, for the moralist to indulge in a homily about annual good intentions, and habits that ought to be dropped or acquired, on the first of January. [4]
Just after sundown there was a great noise, and the ringing of bells and sound of singing came over the water to the idle fleet. [11]
To go with them, not to care, to accept Jack's idle, good-natured, easy philosophy of life and conduct, would not that have insured a peaceful life? [4]
Many, however, joined them in order to live an idle life, supported by the gifts of others. [10]
In fact, at the very time Mr. Fillmore uttered this idle charge, the state of things in the United States disproved it. [7]
Now, where is the use of allowing all those riches to lie idle, while half of that community hardly know, from day to day, how they are going to keep body and soul together? [5]
The "Yarn About the Limburger Cheese and the Box of Guns," like "The Stolen White Elephant," did not find place in the travel-book, but was published in the same volume with the elephant story, added to the rambling notes of "An Idle Excursion. [5]
One has seen the like of this coating upon furniture in unoccupied houses, and has written his idle thought in it with his finger. [5]
Below these are the laborers and men who work at trades, who have no voice in the commonwealth, and crowds of young serving-men who become old beggars, highway-robbers, idle fellows, and spreaders of all vices. [4]
While they keep the King idle and in bondage to his sports and follies, they are great and their importance grows; whereas if ever he assert himself and rise and strike for crown and country like a man, their reign is done. [5]
He had forbidden the idle young singers who wanted to go with him to follow, but one had secretly slipped after, and, in one of the dark corridors of the big house, full of nooks and corners, he suddenly heard a voice call his name. [10]
It was in the height of summer, when there was little to think of in the old fortressed city, and a dart after a brigand appealed to the romantic natures of the idle French folk, common and gentle. [11]
Whether or not the following sentences, taken literally from the work of Mr. Perkins, were the originals of some of the idle propositions we hear bandied about from time to time, let those who listen judge. [3]
These words affected the convalescent like a strengthening potion, and when the hammers again moved in the smithy, Ulrich was no longer satisfied with his idle life, and began with Ruth to look forward to and discuss the future. [10]
The controversy between the claims of the practical life and the intellectual is as idle as the so-called conflict between science and religion. [4]
On many of the between-days I did some work, but only of an idle and not necessarily necessary sort, since it will not see print until I am dead. [5]
We had promised that, if we came near Pentecost again on our cruise, we would spend another idle day in the pretty bay. [11]
Some have said that the practice arises from nervousness--the idle desire to be busy without doing anything--and because it fills up the pauses of vacuity in conversation. [4]
My idea is that the employer should be the busy man, and the employee the idle one. [5]
Do you see, that my peace here is not disturbed by idle gossip. [10]
It isn't right that I should idle here, while the South needs me, Your Uncle Daniel is fifty-eight, and Colonel of a Pennsylvania regiment.--Jinny, I have to go. [9]
During the first ten days following the mailing of the letter Tracy's spirits had no idle time; they were always climbing up into the clouds or sliding down into the earth as deep as the law of gravitation reached. [5]
We need not talk any idle talk here to-night about either possible or impossible war between the two countries; there will be no war while we remain sane and the son of Victoria and Albert sits upon the throne. [5]
This roaring avalanche swept out of Melbourne and left it desolate, Sunday-like, paralyzed, everything at a stand-still, the ships lying idle at anchor, all signs of life departed, all sounds stilled save the rasping of the cloud-shadows as they scraped across the vacant streets. [5]
He saw idle sunlight play upon these beads, as he sat down at the table to which Rudyard motioned him. [11]
The cause was sufficient; he had not tasted food for forty-eight hours, and he could not endure the misery of his hunger in idle hiding. [5]
Their bright eyes sparkled with pleasure while describing the work of their own hands, and they were so absorbed in eager delight that they did not notice the approach of a man until startled by his words: "Enough of this idle sport now, your Highnesses. [10]
It was a social club which propagated an interest in idle amusements, disseminated a knowledge of games, et cetera. [5]
This disposition to smoke, and idle and talk, was not well. [5]
Often she would sit idle at the hand-mill, a light in her eyes that I would have given kingdoms for. [9]
I've always been sick of an idle life, but I wouldn't do a hundred things I might have done. [11]
Measuring, estimating, sending short notes and writing figures, names and suggestions on the plan, and on his folding wax-tablets, he was not idle for an instant, though frequently interrupted by the appointed superintendents of the workshops and manufactures in Lochias, whose co-operation he required. [10]
Force of habit sent men to their places of business, to sit idle. [9]
Below, a few Senators lounged upon the sofas set apart for visitors, and talked with idle Congressmen. [5]
He wished to say, "Yes, a vile, idle, vicious life! [2]
Large warehouses stood round the harbor of this Greek colony, and slightly-built dwelling-houses, into which the idle mariners were lured by the sounds of music and laughter, and the glances and voices of painted and rouged damsels. [10]
He had a rich abundance of idle time, but it never hung heavy on his hands, for he interested himself in every new thing that was born into the universe of ideas, and studied it, and experimented upon it at his house. [5]
Judge Driscoll had retired from the bench and from all business activities in 1850, and had now been comfortably idle three years. [5]
It is a record of several years of variegated vagabondizing, and its object is rather to help the resting reader while away an idle hour than afflict him with metaphysics, or goad him with science. [5]
But I was rebuked for trying to feed an idle and frivolous curiosity in so solemn and so mournful a place; and went my way with a humbled crest. [5]
Stith says that Raleigh sent five several times to search for the lost, but the searchers returned with only idle reports and frivolous allegations. [4]
Here was a poor creature whom hard fortune had exiled from his natural home beyond the seas, and whose troubles ought to have touched these idle strangers that thronged about him; but did it? [5]
Was she a person to run about with idle gossip? [4]
He was looking out over the far hills, while the strips of cane were idle in his hands. [11]
Also the ubiquitous Osterhaut had not been idle, and his bulletin had just been handed to Jowett. [11]
The question is often asked, but I consider it an idle one, whether Shakespeare was appreciated in his own day as he is now. [4]
Was each man, of whatever color, entitled to the fruits of his own labor, or could one man live in idle luxury by the sweat of another's brow, whose skin was darker? [7]
The many tongues of the village and its visitors could not remain idle. [6]
The venerable Mother of the Republics is scarce a fit subject for flippant speech or the idle gossipping of tourists. [5]
In the intervals of the dance wine passes, and idle things are said beside the draped and cushioned capstan or in the friendly gloom of a boat, which, in the name of safety, hangs taut between its davits. [11]
They even gossiped of idle things loud enough for the hidden Maroons to hear. [11]
The dried-leaf rustle of her silk dress was suggestive of the ripe autumn of life, bringing with it those golden fruits of wisdom and experience which the grave teachers of mankind so justly prefer to the idle blossoms of adolescence. [6]
A long line of boats lay idle, with noses to the levee. [9]
With the exception of a conversation club here and there, and a literary club, more or less perfunctory, are they not mostly social clubs for comfort and idle lounging, many of them known, as other workmen are, by their "chips"? [4]
His body was oblong and particularly capacious at bottom; which was wisely ordered by Providence, seeing that he was a man of sedentary habits, and very averse to the idle labor of walking. [4]
As it is now, war is the favorite pastime of the idle and frivolous. [2]
What Verus was now projecting he regarded as being a simple act of self-defence; and after all, it consisted merely in detaining Hadrian for an hour, interrupting him in an idle occupation--the observation of the stars. [10]
He begged me not to let him remain idle, but make him of use in the service. [10]
If I were not naturally a lazy, idle, good-for-nothing vagabond, I could make it pay me $20,000 a year. [5]
Therefore he would not let the night pass without at least showing her betrothed husband how he should regard the gossip of idle tongues if it penetrated to his hiding-place. [10]
The presents are not labeled--the hands are forever idle that would have labeled them today. [5]
Perhaps they were not intended to be idle. [4]
For we shall not dream away our time much longer in this idle rest, my friends. [10]
The world had not been made for a single day's play or fancy or idle watching. [13]
These, meanwhile, had not been idle. [10]
He had, apparently, not been idle since Sunday, and was armed cap-a pie with time-worn arguments that need not be set down. [9]
The senate had not been idle and had done all in their power to surround it with magnificence and to enable as many as possible to enjoy the pageant, which had been planned with a lavish hand and liberal munificence. [10]
But man must not be idle and live--if Kaid lets me live. [11]
Their Eletto was no idle man! [10]

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