1128 examples of idleness in sentences

In the mere idleness of affectionate remembrance I went up to the garden door of the tower and mechanically turned the handle.

It is depicted by Hogarth, Industry and Idleness, No. 6.

A man who has not been taught to swim may rationally be excused for preferring to sit upon the bank; and should he elect to ornament his idleness with protestations that he is self-evidently an excellent swimmer, because once upon a time his progenitors were the only people in the world who had the slightest conception of how to perform a natatorial masterpiece, the thing is simply human nature.

We had examined the ruins very closely at the time of these occurrences; but afterwards, when all was over, as we went casually about them one Sunday afternoon in the idleness of that unemployed day, Simson with his stick penetrated an old window which had been entirely blocked up with fallen soil.

found himself once more in his loyal city of Lyons, it chanced that a certain Burgundian lord, Messire Claude de Vauldray, a most famous man-at-arms, came to the King and proposed that he should hold a kind of tournament, called a "Pas d'Armes," to keep the young gentlemen of the Court from idleness.

The Mongol soldiers had become effeminate through their life of idleness in the towns.

The number of monks living in idleness was cut down and precisely determined; the possessions of the temples were reduced, land exempted from taxation being thus made taxableall this, incidentally, although Chu had himself been a monk!

I hae a half notion that they are just wee hairy men that canna, or rather that winna speak, in case they be made to work like ither folk, instead of leading a life of idleness.

The next three days were spent in idleness, awaiting the Phram, from which so much was expected.

Habit also counts very largely in the regular return of the man to his job, and the fluctuations of employment, the failure of the employing class to provide any alternative to idleness during slack time, break that habit of industry.

It will be strangely interesting to them at first, but when they have seen it all, there will be nothing for them but idleness.

In fact there is no one idle, and no one who has the least prospect of idleness.

Bowers and Simpson were able to give personal reminiscences of this land of pagodas, and the discussion led to interesting statements on the religion, art, and education of its people, their philosophic idleness, &c.

"Idleness and pleasure fatigue a man as soon as business.

" "My lord," she said, "this good knight whose blood you are about to spill hath fallen from his duty through a snare set for him in idleness and folly.

Partly from curiosity, and partly from idleness, I entered his lecture room, and his panegyric upon modern chemistry I shall never forget:"The ancient teachers of this science," said he, "promised impossibilities, and performed nothing.

The degraded and scorned of our race will learn to think of their sacred land not as a place for saintly beggary to await death in loathsome idleness, but as a republic where the Jewish spirit manifests itself in a new order founded on the old, purified, enriched by the experience our greatest sons have gathered from the life of the ages.

The women of Paris were plunged into dire poverty, and thousands of them into idleness, which makes poverty more awful.

In praise of idleness and other essays.

Its future seems either gloomy or meaningless, and meanwhile, whether under the burden of knowledge or of doubt, it grows old in idleness.

These ministers of religion would rout Drunkenness and Want, Ignorance, Idleness, Lust, Covetousness, Vanity, Hate, and Pride, vices of instinctive passion or reflective ambition.

He had a theory, sir, that they were conducive, as he said, to idleness.

They came at the moment when I most needed themwhen I had almost lost my taste for society, and was sliding day by day into habits of more confirmed idleness and Bohemianism.

Behold us, then, at the time prescribed, lounging in the doorway of a small shop adjoining the private entrance to Madame Marôt's house; our hands in our pockets; our cigars in our mouths; our whole attitude expressive of idleness and unconcern.

&/ "LOVE-IN-IDLENESS" has passed into a proverb, and lovers, somehow, are not generally supposed to be industrious.

1128 examples of  idleness  in sentences