The magnificent idler, the story of Walt Whitman.

A quarter of a mile nearer to the flats might have brought them within the range of stragglers; but, following the summit of the ridge, there was a certain security in the indolence which would be apt to prevent mere idlers from sauntering up an ascent.

Quite a crowd of curious idlers had collected to look at them, and Joe found himself growing interested.

And he, son of a parvenu, led the life of a rich, elegant idler.

I think we women have all we can do now.' "'To be respectable,' said Mrs. Bill; 'but let's try to do something else.' "'Why don't you form a Ladies' Protective Union,' Bill suggested, 'an' choose the tiara for a symbol, an' strike for no hours a day an' all your husbands can earn?' "'And the employment of skilled idlers only,' Mrs. Bill put in.

The celebrity of Brighton, we may observe, extends throughout the empire, and is almost as well known to the plodding and stay-at-home townsman of the north as to the luxurious idler ever and anon in quest of new pleasures.

Everyone, if he is not a coward or a dangerous idler, should be quietly doing his duty, for the times are already serious enough.

A good many people were already assembled on the squareall the idlers of the district, bands of children, and peasants of the surrounding country, eager to see the sights; and into the midst of this crowd fell the Fromentsfirst the bicyclists, next the wagon, and then the others who had been met at the entry of the village.

He suffered from constitutional depression, preferred solitude to crowds, and could not brook the interference of fashionable idlers with his studious leisure.

Laughing Bill was a hopeless idler; he had been born to leisure and was wedded to indigence, therefore he saw a good deal of the girl on her visits.

[person who is inactive] idler, drone, droil^, dawdle, mopus^; do- little faineant [Fr.], dummy, sleeping partner; afternoon farmer; truant &c (runaway) 623; bummer^, loafer, goldbrick, goldbicker, lounger, lazzarone

Consequently, not only the commissioners of the treaty, with their clerks and officials, but traders, claimants, travellers, and idlers innumerable were upon the ground.

After this, I was not much interrupted by the tribe of inquisitive idlers, but was visited principally by a few men of science, who wished to learn what I could add to their knowledge of nature.

It was an age of intellectual idlers, when men and women, having nothing to do, spent their time in salons, and learned the art of conversation, which was followed by the art of letter-writing.

ON THE PROMENADE O joyous idler in the sun, In pity slacken here thy pace!

" "Well, if you think it right to run the party for a few lordly idlers too proud to mix with the peoplemen who think they are better born and better bred than the rest of usI don't want to have anything more to do with it.

They left it to a rout of melodious idlers to imagine unto themselves a state in which serious importance should attach to the gracious things of sentiment and the loves of youth and maiden.

Why would not an equipage like that be just the thing for a naturalistic idler?

He is a noisy idler.

The rake, the cynic and the loosely-moraled women were still abroad in the land (have we quite done with them even yet?), and many a hard struggle would take place before the artificial restraint and decorum of the Georgian era would triumph over the mocking spirit of Charles Stuart and his professional idlers.

"Soft winds and bright blue skies," she writes, "make me, or dispose me to be, a sad idler."

What plagues, what tortures, are in store for thee, Thou sluggish idler, dilatory slave!

Well I fear me I have been but an idler in the sun All unfinished are the tasks long and long ago begun

Nor would the veriest idler, who passes a whole day in whittling a stick, if he could be brought to look into himself, deny it.

" The next day J.W. watched his old friend amid the press of duties which crowded the hours, and he marveled as much as the wretchedness of the patients as he did at the steady resourcefulness of the man whom he had known when he was Delafield's adventurous and spendthrift idler.