Perhaps I had better say something too, about the word idyl, for the use of the word by. From Wordnik.com. [Books and Habits from the Lectures of Lafcadio Hearn] Reference
The idyl passed, bearing with it its extortion of youth. From Wordnik.com. [The Beautiful and Damned] Reference
'Twas an idyl in the midst of the stern realities of war!. From Wordnik.com. [Destruction and Reconstruction: Personal Experiences of the Late War] Reference
Nannie, Randolph Chance had loaned him a beautiful idyl, termed. From Wordnik.com. [The Gentle Art of Cooking Wives] Reference
"It has been the prettiest idyl to us onlookers," she wrote to Lady. From Wordnik.com. [The Heavenly Twins] Reference
The idyl made good Mr. Fuchs blossom into a genial smile: family life!. From Wordnik.com. [The Bill-Toppers] Reference
No sadder idyl can be found in all the short and simple annals of the poor. From Wordnik.com. [America First Patriotic Readings] Reference
We have only space for a few passages from the earlier portion of the idyl. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 101, March, 1866] Reference
It would not be possible to write satire, epic, idyl, not even elegy, upon that. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 85, November, 1864] Reference
After the stormy days we had just gone through, this morning passed like an idyl. From Wordnik.com. [French and Oriental Love in a Harem] Reference
The lovely idyl of Ruth, Naomi, and Boaz, shows this widely spreading brother-duty. From Wordnik.com. [The Family and it's Members] Reference
Of the events which made Paul's love-idyl possible, but a mere hint has been given. From Wordnik.com. [High Noon A New Sequel to 'Three Weeks' by Elinor Glyn] Reference
Jeanne, "replied the Prince;" it is a charming and poetic idyl which you present to me. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
It is neither an epic, nor an idyl, nor a tale in verse: it combines features of them all. From Wordnik.com. [English Literature, Considered as an Interpreter of English History Designed as a Manual of Instruction] Reference
Its first inception is a wonderful idyl of the extension of progress into the unknown West. From Wordnik.com. [The Life Radiant] Reference
The Prince is to be read as an idyl in the best neoclassical, neo-pastoral, Renaissance style. From Wordnik.com. [A Special Supplement: The Question of Machiavelli] Reference
And the smile that she added made of this dialogue an idyl worthy of a grove situated in heaven. From Wordnik.com. [Les Miserables] Reference
Who can help repeating the familiar words of the idyl amid such scenery, and in such a presence?. From Wordnik.com. [Acadia or, A Month with the Blue Noses] Reference
That was inevitable, for he had fled from an idyl and the memory of its charm must lessen slowly. From Wordnik.com. [Kenny] Reference
This concealed idyl of the hills was mine, as I supposed, but I acknowledge your equal right to it. From Wordnik.com. [Stories by American Authors, Volume 1] Reference
The progress of his idyl suffered a check when the great senatorial fight came on in the Legislature. From Wordnik.com. [Jennie Gerhardt] Reference
"I dew vum," a mild New England oath, "I do vow." idyl (i-dil), a short poem describing country life. From Wordnik.com. [Elson Grammar School Literature v4] Reference
I have made incarnate and have bound fast to me for ever that beautiful old-time idyl of the Vaucluse. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 22. July, 1878.] Reference
Little Raby's illness seemed to put them all back where they were during the days of the sea-side idyl. From Wordnik.com. [Hetty's Strange History] Reference
There was nothing in this idyl, to which, even on a first reading, I could give the name of "new truth.". From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 57, July, 1862] Reference
But meanwhile, notwithstanding this criticism, the little idyl in our midst was developing itself apace. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 4, April, 1862 Devoted To Literature And National Policy] Reference
For the weeks in between, it's a sort of idyl -- the captives have time -- something many of them have never had. From Wordnik.com. [readersguide Diary Entry] Reference
She would nurse the shadows of her summer's idyl long after the idyl was gone, and would mistake them for reality. From Wordnik.com. [Kenny] Reference
Each word and act of the three weeks of his parents 'love-idyl must reflect in the character and life of the child. From Wordnik.com. [One Day A sequel to 'Three Weeks'] Reference
The breathless idyl of their engagement gave way, first, to the intense romance of the more passionate relationship. From Wordnik.com. [The Beautiful and Damned] Reference
Doctor Luke is a magnetic character, and the love story in which he plays his part is a sweet and pleasant idyl. From Wordnik.com. [St. Cuthbert's] Reference
The breathless idyl left them, fled on to other lovers; they looked around one day and it was gone, how they scarcely knew. From Wordnik.com. [The Beautiful and Damned] Reference
Yesterday, I read in a prose translation of the "Odyssey" the exquisite idyl of Nausicaa and her Maids, and the discovery of himself by. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 57, July, 1862] Reference
No wonder, then, that, in the present dearth of poetry in France, this epic or idyl, call it as you will, was received with acclamations. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 41, March, 1861] Reference
Longfellow, a Whittier or a Tennyson to make an idyl of; it has sent artists wild; the eye rests lovingly on the hill-crests of the Sabine. From Wordnik.com. [A Heart-Song of To-day] Reference
What a simple idyl in itself is Goethe's "Hermann and Dorothea"!. From Wordnik.com. [Complete Essays] Reference
That such a country idyl should be born amid law-books was sufficiently remarkable. From Wordnik.com. [The Complete Project Gutenberg Writings of Charles Dudley Warner] Reference
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