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Meanings of idle man in English

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Usage of idle man in English
1
Hunger is a severe taskmaster; it makes many an idle man work.
Peter Biddulph: The Story of an Australian Settler
2
The fact is, Nature never made any provision for the idle man.
Pushing to the Front
3
The mere title of your work overwhelms an idle man like me.
The Black Robe
4
The really idle man is a poor creature, incapable of strong sins.
Don Orsino
5
But it must not be imagined that Ito was an idle man.
Kimono
6
He said: 'I never knew such an idle man as I am.
Life and Letters of Lord Macaulay. Volume 1
7
Believe me, do not undertake that painful profession of an idle man.
Les Misérables
8
I was an idle boy, an idle youth, and an idle man.
Wife in Name Only
9
For an idle man, he had remarkably little time on his hands.
Roden's Corner
10
Floyd meanwhile marches around the room in an idle man fashion.
Floyd Grandon's Honor
11
He is not at all an idle man;-atleast I am told so.
He Knew He Was Right
12
The idle man does not know what it is to rest.
The Pleasures of Life
13
But for an idle man it becomes the air he breathes.
Vrouw Grobelaar and Her Leading Cases: Seventeen Short Stories
14
You see I have the misfortune to be an idle man.
The Law and the Lady
15
An idle man is sure to go into the hands of a receiver.
The Story of Cole Younger, by Himself
16
Perhaps it was the idle man's playmate that made the trouble.
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume ...
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