idlesse
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of idlesse
1590–1600; idle + -esse, as in finesse, etc.
Example Sentences
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The piazza with its sights of beauty was lit up by that warm morning sunlight under which the autumn dew still lingers, and which invites to an idlesse undulled by fatigue.
From Romola by Eliot, George
Feeding the clods your idlesse drains, You make more green six feet of soil; His fruitful word, like suns and rains, Partakes the seasons' bounteous pains, And toils to lighten human toil.
From Poems of James Russell Lowell With biographical sketch by Nathan Haskell Dole by Lowell, James Russell
Our butterfly hours were then past: we grew into work-a-day bees—if only we have stored some honey in your hives to pay us for the lost idlesse of our dreamy summers!
From The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No. 6, December 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy by Various
Yet didst thou, in thy young simplicity, Glow with misguided thankfulness to him That slumbers on in idlesse there above!
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 348 by Various
The tables were drawn, it was idlesse all, Knight and page and household squire Loitered through the lofty hall, Or crowded round the ample fire.
From Kenneth McAlpine A Tale of Mountain, Moorland and Sea by Stables, Gordon
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