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Значения термина mere idleness на английском

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Использование термина mere idleness на английском
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I do not walk abroad like a king-errant in mere idleness of mind.
If I Were King
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I cannot believe you have spent all your life in mere idleness and pleasure.
The Mystery of Cloomber
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From mere idleness the tramp soon finds that petty thieving is an easy way to get along.
The High School Boys' Training Hike
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He watched him in mere idleness while waiting for the girl to bring the supper Donald had ordered.
The Northern Iron
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She well knew the mischievous, gossiping propensities of country people, who, from mere idleness, indulge in limitless scandal.
File No. 113
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After a lapse of some months, spent at home in mere idleness, I found myself a student at Eton.
Complete Stories and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe
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But it is mere idleness to say that I had not lived before-thatthe soul has no previous existence.
Complete Stories and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe
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Holiday philosophy is mere idleness.
Coningsby; Or, The New Generation
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Moreover, in general, it will perhaps be found that persons devoted to mere literature commonly become devoted to mere idleness.
Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Vol...
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Possibly he was still "reading hugely," but the greater likelihood was that he had fallen into mere idleness.
The Emancipated
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But what I do, and ever shall regret, is the time which, while young, I lost in mere idleness, and in doing nothing.
Letters to His Son, 1748 / On the Fine Art of Becoming a Man of ...
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It is dangerous, sir, believe me, to tamper thus with earnest human passions, out of your own mere idleness, and for your sport.
The Blithedale Romance
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At least, if I could-butI shall come to all that by and by, and it is mere idleness to go on about it now.
Bleak House
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Mere idleness is not recreation; and many people use their leisure in DISSIPATION instead of in recreation.
Community Civics and Rural Life
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"But they may rob from love of mischief, of excitement, of excess, from mere idleness, or old habits," said L'Isle.
The Actress in High Life / An Episode in Winter Quarters
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'Next to mere idleness (said he,) I think knotting is to be reckoned in the scale of insignificance; though I once attempted to learn knotting.
Boswell's Life of Johnson / Abridged and edited, with an introdu...
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Mere idleness через время
Mere idleness в диалектах
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