Adjective : the leisured classes. ,the leisured manner of his walk. From Dictionary.com.
Oh, and the poet has to belong to the "leisured" class and have been dead for 80 years, at least. From Wordnik.com. [New Hillary Ad In North Carolina Stars Maya Angelou] Reference
Even in his pomp Takeover Target would not have won Group One prizes back home with this kind of leisured acceleration. From Wordnik.com. [The Independent - Frontpage RSS Feed] Reference
And I'm a leisured dilettante compared to most of the others. From Wordnik.com. [In The Time Of Light] Reference
I had assumed he was spoiled. a leisured son of rich parents. From Wordnik.com. [See Delphi and Die]
"I know nothing that isn't public, sir," he said at a leisured rate. From Wordnik.com. [The Rebel Worlds]
He stood ready, having overtaken Adolph's sketchy but leisured dressing. From Wordnik.com. [The Nest Builder] Reference
Sprague named his train after a leisured moment's study of an illustration. From Wordnik.com. [The Henchman] Reference
Nevertheless, compared to earlier years, this was for him a leisured period. From Wordnik.com. [The Earth Book of Stormgate]
It was a pleasing thought, that I was not recognisably of the leisured class. From Wordnik.com. [A Monstrous Regiment of Women]
Gardening is patience, peace and tranquillity-to be enjoyed at a leisured pace. From Wordnik.com. [What Would Virgil Say?] Reference
This work is 'a satire dealing with the whims and pleasures of the leisured class. '. From Wordnik.com. [Gilbert Keith Chesterton] Reference
With the world at peace, the Consulate had leisured to reconstruct the constitution. From Wordnik.com. [Heroes of Modern Europe] Reference
What with additional introductions, and leisured preliminaries of acquaintanceship with F. From Wordnik.com. [The Game Of Empire]
The temptation of a spell of leisured ease was too much for them: they settled down in Rabegh. From Wordnik.com. [Seven Pillars of Wisdom] Reference
The iron and coal valleys of the Vermissa district were no resorts for the leisured or the cultured. From Wordnik.com. [Chennai] Reference
His first day in that leisured, peaceful, fragrant town, nestling amongst the hills against the keen. From Wordnik.com. [Swirling Waters] Reference
Count Lützov's contention, and this subject might well be taken up by some leisured student of history. From Wordnik.com. [From a Terrace in Prague] Reference
With this idea in my head, and having a little leisured ease, I have set out to minister a long-felt want. From Wordnik.com. [A Yeoman's Letters Third Edition] Reference
Thank goodness we keep 'the product of a leisured society' alive at Hotel Endsleigh in the twenty-first century. From Wordnik.com. [Bookhound finds...] Reference
The after-luncheon roll is of course the busy City man's substitute for the leisured club-man's after-luncheon nap. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 152, February 21, 1917] Reference
In earlier, more leisured days, the rejection took place gradually over a generation or two, or maybe even a century. From Wordnik.com. [Law Reform and the Transitional Man] Reference
It was all a bit smart: classy refreshment kiosks, chaps practising rugger moves, a general air of leisured prosperity. From Wordnik.com. [Holiday snap: Green Park] Reference
Class carried books with them, the present year being one of much struggling and heartburning, and few leisured moments. From Wordnik.com. [The Getting of Wisdom] Reference
Up to the present this has been a pastime for leisured travellers like Lord Southesk, Sir Charles Dilke, and Rider Haggard. From Wordnik.com. [The Masques of Ottawa] Reference
Our professional and leisured classes still think themselves a cut above our business classes, except of course the very rich. From Wordnik.com. [In Chancery] Reference
I lost my super pension paid through the nose for property and ¸ I am, certainly not one of the leisured class of grey wasters. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2007-03-01] Reference
Hither and thither men and women hurried about their business; there seemed few indeed nowadays of the leisured loiterers through life. From Wordnik.com. [The Moon out of Reach] Reference
After her schooling, Pappenheim was supposed to train to become a leisured lady, waiting for the perfect marriage candidate to come by. From Wordnik.com. [Bertha Pappenheim.] Reference
There was an indefinite atmosphere of peace and repose about it, of leisured days haunted by no grey thoughts, very typical of the owner. From Wordnik.com. [Christopher Hibbault, Roadmaker] Reference
We have not, of course, had the historical experience of a leisured class which looked upon public service in some capacity as a duty and a distinction. From Wordnik.com. [Some Aspects of the Public Service] Reference
Cadfael passed the time of day with him pleasantly, and sat down with him under an apple tree to exchange the leisured civilities proper to such a meeting. From Wordnik.com. [The Devil's Novice]
Traditionally this weekend marked the beginning of a six-week holiday period when the leisured classes would move their entire household up to a lodge in the hills. From Wordnik.com. [Bagging Wine for Grouse] Reference
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