Lexicographical Neighbors of Idlenesses
Literary usage of Idlenesses
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Art of Pluck: Being a Treatise After the Fashion of Aristotle Writ for by Edward Caswall (1864)
"THERE be many other idlenesses of the like so: those mentioned: such are boxing,
the kick of rows in Quad, the sleeping all day in a: chair, ..."
2. Paradise Lost by John Milton, Egerton Brydges (1851)
"... at some happy moment they may bo benefited ' the genial beams. Here are none
of the frivolous idlenesses ; the wanton sport s of imagination ; the false ..."
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