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I do not walk abroad like a king-errant in mere idleness of mind.
2
I cannot believe you have spent all your life in mere idleness and pleasure.
3
From mere idleness the tramp soon finds that petty thieving is an easy way to get along.
4
He watched him in mere idleness while waiting for the girl to bring the supper Donald had ordered.
5
She well knew the mischievous, gossiping propensities of country people, who, from mere idleness, indulge in limitless scandal.
6
After a lapse of some months, spent at home in mere idleness, I found myself a student at Eton.
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But it is mere idleness to say that I had not lived before-thatthe soul has no previous existence.
8
Holiday philosophy is mere idleness.
9
Moreover, in general, it will perhaps be found that persons devoted to mere literature commonly become devoted to mere idleness.
10
Possibly he was still "reading hugely," but the greater likelihood was that he had fallen into mere idleness.
11
But what I do, and ever shall regret, is the time which, while young, I lost in mere idleness, and in doing nothing.
12
It is dangerous, sir, believe me, to tamper thus with earnest human passions, out of your own mere idleness, and for your sport.
13
At least, if I could-butI shall come to all that by and by, and it is mere idleness to go on about it now.
14
Mere idleness is not recreation; and many people use their leisure in DISSIPATION instead of in recreation.
15
"But they may rob from love of mischief, of excitement, of excess, from mere idleness, or old habits," said L'Isle.
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'Next to mere idleness (said he,) I think knotting is to be reckoned in the scale of insignificance; though I once attempted to learn knotting.
