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Definition of Idlesse
1. idleness [n -S] - See also: idleness
Lexicographical Neighbors of Idlesse
Literary usage of Idlesse
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Letters from Abroad to Kindred at Home by Catharine Maria Sedgwick (1841)
"idlesse" and gayety of the streets. It was St. Catharine's festa, too, being her
natal day, and we were passing by a little chapel, built on the site of the ..."
2. German Universities: A Narrative of Personal Experience, Together with by James Morgan Hart (1874)
"idlesse. I^HE spring and summer of 1862 were spent as I •*• have described,
pleasantly and profitably. Not so the following winter. ..."
3. Cambridge Sketches by Cambridge Authors by Estelle Minerva Hatch Merrill, Alexander McKenzie (1896)
"idlesse. BV MRS. CAROLINE F. ORNE. OUT upon the swelling wave Sweeping onward
toward the shore. Lies and swings a tiny boat But with neither sail nor oar. ..."
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