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Meanings of idyl in English
Synonyms
Examples for "bucolic"
Examples for "bucolic"
1
That at least is the bucolic image advanced by the energy industry.
2
The enmity between the urban and the bucolic has deep historical roots.
3
And with the look his affectation of bucolic calm dropped from him.
4
Jeff settled in bucolic Putney, married a photographer, and had two children.
5
The countryside changes but retains a comforting familiarity, a snowy bucolic theme.
1
The spell by knotting the girdle is noticed by Virgil, 8th eclogue:
2
It was a delicious eclogue-pure ,sincere ,andtender; but it is past-Adieu
3
It is in the eclogue for February, where he tells us of the
4
This is the Gallus in honour of whom Virgil composed his tenth eclogue.
5
The eighth eclogue of Virgil, entitled Pharmaceutria, is particularly to our purpose in this point.
Usage of idyl in English
1
As I gaze, these young people make for me a perfect idyl.
2
I am glad, for how could my bite and her idyl agree?
3
You may read about this tragic idyl in Bret Harte and Gertrude Atherton.
4
She was quite ready to be really interested in this idyl.
5
How does the English laureate put it in his idyl on the subject?
6
To Eric, the days were all pages in an inspired idyl.
7
It was only a little summer idyl, and we have both outlived it.
8
To Auteuil Armand Duval and his Camille hied away for their short-lived idyl.
9
That other girl, the joyous companion of his summer idyl, was no more.
10
That such a country idyl should be born amid law-books was sufficiently remarkable.
11
The lovely idyl of Ruth, Naomi, and Boaz, shows this widely spreading brother-duty.
12
On the sixth day a band of visitors suddenly blundered into Nana's idyl.
13
Was his idyl, the one dream of his life, to end in waking?
14
The one idyl in his noisy life, the one uplifting influence!
15
That maternal idyl still troubles your poor, shallow brain, does it?
16
For instance, the end of the idyl in book vii.
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Idyl through the time
Idyl across language varieties
United Kingdom
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