Noun : She looked forward to retirement and a life of leisure. ,Most evenings he had the leisure in which to follow his interests. ,a work written with leisure and grace. From Dictionary.com.
Adjective : leisure hours. ,the leisure class. ,a leisure jacket. ,leisure products like bowling balls and video games. From Dictionary.com.
Old Nicky Vro, the ferryman, had pulled the same leisurable stroke for forty years now, and was not to be hurried. From Wordnik.com. [Shining Ferry] Reference
Our trade, steady and leisurable until the last week of March, then went up with a rush and continued at high pressure through April and. From Wordnik.com. [The Adventures of Harry Revel] Reference
The more leisurable process of desiccation, by which, under modern storage, the components of a modern novel are released to fresh unions and activities admits, as Sir Thomas Browne would say, a wide solution, and was just the question to tease that good man. From Wordnik.com. [On The Art of Reading] Reference
This I confess, about seven years past, with some others of affinity thereto, for my private exercise and satisfaction I had at leisurable hours composed; which being communicated unto one, it became common unto many, and was by transcription successively corrupted, until it arrived in a most depraved copy at the press. From Wordnik.com. [Sir Thomas Browne and his 'Religio Medici' an Appreciation] Reference
This I confess, about seven years past, with some others of affinity thereto, for my private exercise and satisfaction, I had at leisurable hours composed; which being communicated unto one, it became common unto many, and was by transcription successively corrupted, until it arrived in a most depraved copy at the press. From Wordnik.com. [Religio Medici, Hydriotaphia, and the Letter to a Friend] Reference
This, I confess, about seven years past, with some others of affinity thereto, for my private exercise and satisfaction, I had at leisurable hours composed; which being communicated unto one, it became common unto many, and was by Transcription successively corrupted, untill it arrived in a most depraved Copy at the Press. From Wordnik.com. [Religio Medici] Reference
This I confess, about seven years past, with some others of affinity thereto, for my private exercise and satisfaction, I had at leisurable hours composed; which being communicated unto one, it became common unto many, and was by transcription successively corrupted, untill it arrived in a most depraved copy at the press . From Wordnik.com. [XI. Of Selection] Reference
This I confess, about seven years past, with some others of affinity thereto, for my private exercise and satisfaction, I had at leisurable hours composed; which being communicated unto one, it became common unto many, and was by transcription successively corrupted, untill it arrived in a most depraved copy at the press. From Wordnik.com. [On The Art of Reading] Reference
"After all," pursued Cai cheerfully, "these little interests are the salt of a leisurable man's life. From Wordnik.com. [Hocken and Hunken] Reference
Such a doctrine, at more leisurable moments, would of course have its precepts to deliver on the embellishment, generally, of what is near at hand, on the adornment of life, till, in a not impracticable rule of conduct, one's existence, from day to day, came to be like a well-executed piece of music; that "perpetual motion" in things (so Marius figured the matter to himself, under the old Greek imageries) according itself to. From Wordnik.com. [Marius the Epicurean — Volume 1] Reference
And when Philip of Macedon, at a drinking party, began to speak in banter about the verses and tragedies which his father, Dionysius the elder, had left behind him, and pretended to wonder how he could get any time from his other business to compose such elaborate and ingenious pieces, he replied, very much to the purpose, “It was at those leisurable hours, which such as you and I, and those we call happy men, bestow upon our cups.”. From Wordnik.com. [The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans] Reference
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