Sometimes, during the summer, I feel like an idler because I do not have any schoolwork to do. From LearnThat.org.
They should be taught that to labor is honorable, and that the idler is a menace to the commonwealth. From Wordnik.com. [The Journal of Negro History, Volume 2, 1917] Reference
That puts him perilously closed to being, by Edward's lights, a dreaded "idler" living off his wife's income. From Wordnik.com. [New Haven Independent] Reference
"idler," give to the whole little society the aspect of nothing so much as the court of Prinz Irenaeus in Kater Murr's inestimable autobiography. From Wordnik.com. [The Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley]
Shun the idler, though his coffers overflow with pelf. From Wordnik.com. [Searchlights on Health: Light on Dark Corners A Complete Sexual Science and a Guide to Purity and Physical Manhood, Advice To Maiden, Wife, And Mother, Love, Courtship, And Marriage] Reference
There was no room for the idler, no time for laziness. From Wordnik.com. [Society Its Origin and Development] Reference
Are we irresistibly led to confide in every near-by idler?. From Wordnik.com. [Stanford Achievement Test, Ed. 1922 Advanced Examination, Form A, for Grades 4-8] Reference
Where free lunches are abundant there the idler may be found. From Wordnik.com. [How to Get on in the World A Ladder to Practical Success] Reference
He was called a worthless fool, a regular drunkard and idler. From Wordnik.com. [Welsh Folk-Lore a Collection of the Folk-Tales and Legends of North Wales] Reference
"He's a great idler, but I love him very much," she said, laughing. From Wordnik.com. [The Youth of Jefferson A Chronicle of College Scrapes at Williamsburg, in Virginia, A.D. 1764] Reference
"Not for myself, thou sunny-souled idler!" announced Butch, generously. From Wordnik.com. [T. Haviland Hicks Senior] Reference
"To me it is an omen that the idler who keeps the gate is not vigilant.". From Wordnik.com. [The Yoke A Romance of the Days when the Lord Redeemed the Children of Israel from the Bondage of Egypt] Reference
She will never be an idler, never sink into the ranks of the commonplace. From Wordnik.com. [Madeline Payne, the Detective's Daughter] Reference
"And school tax, too, I s'pose?" demanded another idler in the drug store. From Wordnik.com. [Janice Day at Poketown] Reference
If you call on a friend and he is busy, do not become an idler or make him one. From Wordnik.com. [The Choctaw Freedmen and The Story of Oak Hill Industrial Academy] Reference
But Chess, Ruth felt, had earned his vacation, while Tom remained a mere idler. From Wordnik.com. [Ruth Fielding on the St. Lawrence The Queer Old Man of the Thousand Islands] Reference
He goes without a beard and wears a coat of a western cut; he is an idler, a debauchee. From Wordnik.com. [International Weekly Miscellany - Volume 1, No. 5, July 29, 1850] Reference
Courtland felt an idler and drone among them that he did not yet know what he was to do. From Wordnik.com. [The Witness] Reference
No one may be an idler or parasite, and society has a just claim upon the activity of every man. From Wordnik.com. [Christianity and Ethics A Handbook of Christian Ethics] Reference
Coming and going, often with no definite task in hand, Densuké to all appearance was an out-and-out idler. From Wordnik.com. [The Yotsuya Kwaidan or O'Iwa Inari Tales of the Tokugawa, Volume 1 (of 2)] Reference
You've known real men in your life, men who have fought and accomplished things and I've been just an idler. From Wordnik.com. [The Fifth Ace] Reference
But every idler had his firelock close at hand, and all the time the sentinels on the bastions kept a sharp lookout. From Wordnik.com. [Four American Indians King Philip, Pontiac, Tecumseh, Osceola] Reference
"The Watson lady is an idler too," put in Madeline, with quick tact, remembering that Eleanor had mentioned no engagements. From Wordnik.com. [Betty Wales Senior] Reference
Not for a single instant did Mr. Comyn suspect a hoax, or imagine the affair to be only the mischievous trick of some idler. From Wordnik.com. [The International Monthly Magazine, Volume 1, No. 1, August 1850 of Literature, Science and Art.] Reference
Juan, for that was the boy's name, was known throughout the village as an idler, and for this reason he was called Juan Sadut. From Wordnik.com. [Filipino Popular Tales] Reference
But reflection did justice to his gallant spirit, and I mentally thanked him for having relieved me from the life of an idler. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 54, No. 337, November, 1843] Reference
He expected that the snake, when it came out of its hole, would sting the sleeping idler, who would thus be disposed of quietly. From Wordnik.com. [Filipino Popular Tales] Reference
"He's had plenty of opportunity to filch stationery or almost anything he wants, hanging around my offices, as he does -- an idler --". From Wordnik.com. [Murder at Bridge] Reference
"" About a Boy '' is still music-fixated, but stars a rich idler living off his father's hit novelty record, "" Santa's Super Sleigh. ''. From Wordnik.com. [The Immediate Family] Reference
It is the merry, thoughtless idler who, to relieve the nothingness of his days, seeks the excitement of the wine-cup and the gaming-table. From Wordnik.com. [The Elements of Character] Reference
I didn't know enough to understand the wrong of one lazy idler having this splendid place while the people he lived on kennelled in hovels. From Wordnik.com. [The Workingman's Paradise An Australian Labour Novel] Reference
The man whom the overseer regarded as an idler was let down into the tank, the covering replaced, and water allowed to enter from the river. From Wordnik.com. [In Clive's Command A Story of the Fight for India] Reference
It was a good beginning, and of course the young man was very much pleased to show Sheila that he was no mere lily-fingered idler about town. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 25, April, 1873] Reference
Now having our idler safe down as far as the fall of Constantinople in 1453, he is in very good courses; for here are trusty hands waiting for him. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 01, No. 03, January, 1858] Reference
Not all the blame, for surely some must rest on a society which tolerates the idler, and has no reproach for the man who says "I live only for hunting and golf.". From Wordnik.com. [Cambridge Essays on Education] Reference
Suckling, -- only the next generation after the great men; but his portrait is that of an idler, his head that of a man without great thoughts or great interests. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 01, No. 01, November, 1857 A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics] Reference
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