I certainly did not enjoy that month's
idling. I like
idling when I ought not to be
idling; not when it is the only thing I have to do.
I'm not one for
idling, and it gives me the fidgets to be there and do nothing all day long, so I said to 'Erb, I'm just going to get up and cook your dinner for you."
So after
idling away an hour, they drove home again, and having paid his respects to Mrs.
Virginia Maxon,
idling beneath the leafy shade of the tropical foliage, became presently aware that she had wandered farther from the campong than she had intended.
Yes, I replied; and the charming thing is that they deem him their worst enemy who tells them the truth, which is simply that, unless they give up eating and drinking and wenching and
idling, neither drug nor cautery nor spell nor amulet nor any other remedy will avail.
And, take it in the autumn, what can be pleasanter than to spend a whole day on the sunny side of a barn or a wood-pile, chatting with somebody as old as one's self; or, perhaps,
idling away the time with a natural-born simpleton, who knows how to be idle, because even our busy Yankees never have found out how to put him to any use?
"It-can't-be," muttered Sydney Carton, retrospectively, and
idling his glass (which fortunately was a small one) again.
'Frederick Knott presents James Datchett in "The Colonies",' and there seemed every prospect that the production would be an early one; for if there was one section of the public which Mr Knott disliked more than another, it was Young Men Who Ought To Be Out Earning Their Livings Instead Of
Idling At Home.
