It is principally a manual for those that enjoy this rural idyll and have the luck to live in the country. From LearnThat.org. [www.yourdictionary.com]
This idyll is short-lived as the elephantine squall of S.O.S. rears its panicky, hard-riffing head. From Wordnik.com. [The Line Of Best Fit] Reference
The idyll is his coming of age-he's learning that actions have consequences. From Wordnik.com. [www.philadelphiaweekly.com Philadelphia Weekly] Reference
What ultimately unsettles the idyll is the kind of reality bleed or ontological haemorrhage which Priest's later novels all turn around. From Wordnik.com. [k-punk] Reference
It was an "idyll" of Frog Farm, near London, and Frog Farm seemed to be a trifle less amusing than Hunter's Point, near New York. From Wordnik.com. [Ainslee's, Vol. 15, No. 6, July 1905] Reference
If only more of them led to nail salons and maternity shops then perhaps we'd be living in the cycling idyll which is, apparently, Holland. From Wordnik.com. [Cheap and Easy: The Fundamental Problem of Cycling] Reference
Bhima's idyll is short-lived. From Wordnik.com. [Excerpt: The Space Between Us by Thrity Umrigar] Reference
Why was the word idyll so important for Tereza?. From Wordnik.com. [The Unbearable Lightness of Being]
The charming Book of Ruth is no mere "idyll" or "poetical fiction". From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 13: Revelation-Stock] Reference
This is not the Hollywood idyll of Ozzie and Harriet. From Wordnik.com. [Drugs, Sex, Whatever] Reference
It would throw a very different complexion over the idyll. From Wordnik.com. [The Pool in the Desert] Reference
The very name, Ann Arbor, recalls an idyll of pioneer life. From Wordnik.com. [The University of Michigan] Reference
Life in the village was never again the idyll it had once been. From Wordnik.com. [Casualties of War] Reference
They risked an abrupt end to an Oxford idyll that hadn't even begun. From Wordnik.com. [Sixties: Coming Of Age] Reference
But after what they had suffered, no idle idyll was possible for them. From Wordnik.com. [Two in Time]
Citiots say they're just protecting the unspoiled idyll that they paid for. From Wordnik.com. [The Anger Is Blowing In The Wind] Reference
Emile's letter, and remaining where he was in enjoyment of the present idyll. From Wordnik.com. [The Hippodrome] Reference
Eventually, their art-and-life idyll with their beloved child, Ivan, collapsed. From Wordnik.com. [Beyond The Obvious] Reference
But he had the distinct feeling that there was something wrong with this idyll. From Wordnik.com. [The Marooner] Reference
I returned to the house with this grim and tender little idyll crooning through my brains. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 33, December, 1873] Reference
This afternoon idyll might have led to romance for Helena and me, but Nux put a stop to it. From Wordnik.com. [See Delphi and Die]
Something clicked behind his head; the idyll slid past him, taking its warm breeze with it. From Wordnik.com. [A Fire Upon the Deep]
John Kendal would have married Elfrida Bell -- what an idyll they would make of life together!. From Wordnik.com. [A Daughter of To-Day] Reference
The real romance of Haddon Hall is a sweet, old-world idyll of singular attractiveness and interest. From Wordnik.com. [Heiress of Haddon] Reference
But perhaps the highest of them all is that very peaceful idyll named "All the air a solemn stillness holds.". From Wordnik.com. [Watts (1817-1904)] Reference
Do you know '-- she smiled as if at the fresh colours of an idyll --' we have not even come to the admission?. From Wordnik.com. [The Pool in the Desert] Reference
Another important, though comparatively late, passage in Greek poetry is the twenty-first idyll of Theocritus. From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Part 1, Slice 1] Reference
The true idyll results when a man is represented as happy and complete in himself within his own appointed sphere. From Wordnik.com. [The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 09 Friedrich Hebbel and Otto Ludwig] Reference
"His Lordship's ardent admirer in the Far East"; and certainly they move in the atmosphere of the Tennysonian idyll. From Wordnik.com. [Tales of Ind And Other Poems] Reference
It was a charming, charming thing to wait, there at the portal of the silvered, scented garden, for an idyll to come forth. From Wordnik.com. [The Pool in the Desert] Reference
There had come the exile in Greece - an idyll with Sulla in Ephesus, Smyrna and Pergamum-the twins-and Sulla's awful illness. From Wordnik.com. [Fortune's Favorites]
Did Neverman imagine an arty idyll on a tropic beach, bought and paid for with the proceeds of ripped-off gloves and shoelaces?. From Wordnik.com. [Ask the Cards a Question]
Gracious clouds came and trailed across the frontier barrier; blue as an idyll it rose about us; the city smiled in her gardens. From Wordnik.com. [The Pool in the Desert] Reference
Those days -- before Darcy's arrival -- were a long idyll of good food and play in the hot sun or the white snow and brotherhood. From Wordnik.com. [Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town] Reference
Valkyrie Brunhild, but the love idyll of Siegfried, the son of the king of the Netherlands, and the dainty Burgundian princess Kriemhild. From Wordnik.com. [The Nibelungenlied] Reference
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