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She remembered the doctor's hesitancy, and her own idle phrase-" ahugecoffin."
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The power of the word is not merely an idle phrase or form of expression.
3
Our common expression, "life's blood," is no idle phrase.
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An idle phrase, surely, thought her ladyship, where the young man's chance of getting into Parliament was so remote.
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A truce to idle phrases!
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Nor are those idle phrases any truer, that the good man's goodness is a never-ceasing sunshine; that virtue is its own reward.
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"It is but his deceit and flattery," she said to herself, "an idle phrase to cozen a woman.