They have all the true Suett stamp, a loose and shambling gait, a slippery tongue, this last the ready midwife to a without-pain-delivered jest; in words, light as air, venting truths deep as the centre; with idlest rhymes tagging conceit when busiest, singing with Lear in the tempest, or Sir Toby at the buttery-hatch.

They have all the true Suett stamp, a loose gait, a slippery tongue, this last the ready midwife to a without-pain-delivered jest; in words light as air, venting truths deep as the centre; with idlest rhymes tagging conceit when busiest, singing with Lear in the tempest, or Sir Toby at the buttery hatch.

An unfavorable opinion had heretofore not been within realms of the idlest speculation.

"We know, on the contrary, that he has so much of both that he is glad to get rid of them at the idlest haunts in the kingdom."

The idlest reverie, as well as the most profound study, taxes the brain.

Her mistress and she help to make away time to the idlest purpose that can be, either for love or money.

The Roman was the idlest of men.

And we were, I think, the happiest, idlest set of vagabonds in existence.

Sydney Carton, idlest and most unpromising of men, was his great ally.

I assure you again we are acting in earnest, with zeal and entire good faith; and any suggestion that any member of the Government, either in this office or the Government of India, has any prejudice whatever against Mahomedans, for the purposes of political administration in India, is one of the idlest and most wicked misapprehensions that could possibly enter into the political mind.

The Ecclesiastical Titles Bill, which the Government brought forward in response to popular feeling, seems to have been one of the idlest measures that ever wasted the time of Parliament.

Our weekly life was simple, monotonous, and laborious; and the chance of seeing the whole neighborhood together in their best clothes on Sunday, was a thing which, in the dearth of all other sources of amusement, appealed to the idlest and most unspiritual of loafers.

I plucked some of them, and in idlest of fancies looked closely to see if deeds or thoughts of a summer gone had been left upon them.

A good answer to account for the delay was always ready on the painter's lips, as that the man of genius works most when his hands are idlest; Judas, sought in vain through all the thieves' resorts in Milan, is not found; I cannot hope to see the face of Christ except in Paradise.

After much hesitation, and in an evil hour, perhaps, he wrote: "I am induced to submit to the indulgence of the public the idlest work, probably, that ever was composed; but, I could wish to hope, not absolutely the most unentertaining or unprofitable."

Vain are the thousand creeds That move men's hearts: unutterably vain; Worthless as withered weeds, Or idlest froth amid the boundless main.

She hated silencethat terrible, empty space waiting to be filled up with your thoughtswhy, the idlest chatter spared you that.

I do not esteem myself, Signor Vice-governatore, as the idlest or as the most ignorant man in the Grand Duke's territories.

It makes every idlest step of worth.

Gradually, however, a kind of formal acquaintance sprang up between us; an acquaintance fostered by trifles and dependent on the idlest, or what seemed the idlest, casualties.

Gradually, however, a kind of formal acquaintance sprang up between us; an acquaintance fostered by trifles and dependent on the idlest, or what seemed the idlest, casualties.

And the 'moral virtues,' which attempt to discriminate between right and wrong, are the idlest of delusions; they are merely 'allegories and dissimulations,' they 'do not exist.'

Ravenel Morris found life more active for him during this idlest season of his native town.

CHARLES II There are a great many bonds which still connect us with Charles II., one of the idlest men of one of the idlest epochs.

CHARLES II There are a great many bonds which still connect us with Charles II., one of the idlest men of one of the idlest epochs.