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Meanings of idyl in English
Synonyms
Examples for "pastoral"
Examples for "pastoral"
1
Ryan and fellow Republicans, however, said the lawmakers needed better pastoral care.
2
This is rich, pastoral land, where food and wine take centre stage.
3
One cannot but admire the heroic pastoral work done by Fr Good.
4
Weller adds that universities need to provide far more structured pastoral care.
5
And so ended the pastoral of the emperor and the village maid.
1
Their wild idyll was going to change when the children came home.
2
The heart of the idyll comes in a song of the clarinet
3
When I'd come past on my run I'd seen a peaceful idyll.
4
The opening act offers us happy scenes from a rural, scruffy idyll.
5
The John Lewis people can only wish for an idyll this delicious.
1
The Allegretto pastorale is clear from the preface.
2
Women do often, nearly always, I think. The Pastorale-itsounded in her ears.
3
They are asking if they shall play the Pastorale for me.
4
We ought to have had Sebastiano here to play the 'Pastorale' for him.
5
Tell Sebastiano he must play the 'Pastorale' to welcome me.
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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