But idle words, in the sense of innocent amusement, are not vicious.

Yours were no idle words; and I can never forget them.

And they took care not to spoil it with idle words.

None know better than the priests how to speak idle words to women.

Of course I took no heed of idle words like these.

It has simply become a silly habit, this jotting down of idle words.

Let go the youth's hand, and into the saddle without more idle words.

Those words, the chief of sinners, were but idle words in Paul's mouth.

What I require of you is, not idle words, but liberty.

Are the idle words of a jealous child to set friends at variance?

But her woman's intuition had gone far below his idle words.

Which of us has not idle words to recall, flippant jokes to regret?

Say: Woe betide you for the idle words that proceed from your mouths!

Joy, sorrow, laughter, tears, love, friendship, longing, despair, are idle words to them.

Mr. Trimm wasn't in the habit of letting men deceive him with idle words.

But Valentine seemed painfully struck by the almost idle words.