Perhaps the inherent idleness of the Akasava would keep them back.
There had been good crops, and good crops mean idleness, and idleness means mischief.
Indeed, a number passed without bringing any word of him, and because idleness meant disaster, we perforce relaxed our vigilance and resumed our plowing.
They pictured him, he says, as a radiant personage whose whole time is devoted to idleness and pastime; who keeps a prolific mind in a sort of corn-sieve and lightly shakes a bushel of it out sometimes in an odd half-hour after breakfast.
Nothing is more monstrous than the generally received opinion with respect to a moderate competence; that 'fatal gift,' as it is called, which encourages idleness in youth by doing away with the necessity for exertion.
Look at this immense city; every one is busy; the judges rise at four in the morning to administer justice to you and send you to the galleys when your idleness has caused you to thieve rather awkwardly.
Again he tried, but whether from the enforced idlenesson the steamer or from physical condition, again fell far short of the jump he expected to make.
The strange ground did not seem to bother him in any way, while with Frank either the straight runway, the different conditions of air or the week of partial idleness on shipboard had played havoc with his skill.
She had stood in one of the windows of the western drawing-room, watching the departure of the funeral cortege; and now she abandoned herself for a brief space to thatidleness which was so unusual to her.
I did not come here, because I am a hard-working man, and the idleness of a country house would have been ruin to me.
But, universal as the uproar is, the work never flags; the hands move as fast as the tongues; there may be no silence and no discipline, but there is also no idleness and no delay.
After having spent the best years of his life in idleness and dissipation, Horace is now poor, hopeless, and miserable.
Idleness is worst, Idleness alone is without hope: work earnestly at anything, you will by degrees learn to work at almost all things.
Out of the loud-piping whirlwind, audibly to him that has ears, the Highest God is again announcing in these days: "Idleness shall not be.
Were he never so benighted, forgetful of his high calling, there is always hope in a man that actually and earnestly works: in Idleness alone is there perpetual despair.
To occupy herself in idleness was an effort; she had no desire to.
Her instinct divined in his apparently sullen attitude the slow intelligence and mental perturbation of a wilful, selfish boy made stupid throughidleness and self-indulgence.
The experience of centuries, said he, "teaches us that the giving of alms to the poor only encourage them in their idleness and their crimes.
Is it possible that when it was said, "It is better to give than to receive," the real meaning was, It is better to encourage idleness and crime than to receive assistance?
Is Mr. Van Norden ready to take the ground that when Christ said: "Sell that thou hast and give to the poor," he intended to encourage idleness and crime?
Soon though, several times, after a day of idleness in going from one building job to another, he came home half drunk.
Then the flow subsided, the groups became fewer and farther between, the working classes had gone home; and as the gas blazed now that the day's toil was over, idleness and amusement seemed to wake up.
Now the four had five hours of idleness before them.
Half a dozen servants, several of them negroes, were lounging in listless idleness at the entrance, which our arrival instantly changed into ready and officious bustle.
There is no need for you to be astonished at that, as in this wealthy city gambling, debauchery, and idleness set all the world awry and in continual need of money; so do the wise gather what the fool drops.
Amidst the idleness and weariness of Spessa I happened to meet a very pretty and very agreeable young widow.
This proceeds in part from idleness and in part from Castilian pride.
Thoughts upon money and idleness were in confusion with Diana.
Yes, the power to enjoy and spread enjoyment: and let idleness envy both!
Koku had great strength and wanted to use it, and after a week or so of idleness he persuaded Tom to let him go in the tunnel to work.
The men were taken away secretly, and, doubtless, have been kept in idlenessever since--paid to stay away so the mystery would be all the deeper.
Keeping idleness at distance I always do what is agreeable.
Idleness consists in not discharging one's duties, and ignorance in grief.
And casting aside idleness and all sense of self-importance, the princess addressed herself with right good will to wait upon the Brahmana.
Idleness and ease, it is said, lead to love, and love to matrimony, in civilized life, and the same process takes place in the wilderness.
As long as it is considered disgraceful to labor, or aristocratic not to labor, the world will be filled with idleness and crime, and with every possible moral deformity.
He finds that idleness has the money and that the toilers are compelled to bow to the idlers.
Labor pays everything, and if the convicts are allowed to live in idleness labor must pay their board.
In former years thus did not I In idleness and tranquil joy The happiest days of life employ?
My days of life approach their end, Yet I in idleness expend The remnant destiny concedes, And thus each stubbornly proceeds.
Sea-life is antagonistic to such an idea, and the best resolves in that direction will end in idleness and disappointment.
She must find some sphere in which she could create for herself a new activity, for to sit in idleness was to invite dread assaults.
Isn't it hateful,' he broke forth, 'this enforced idleness of mine?
If she jested with Wilfrid it was with the idleness of one condescending to subjects below the plane of her interests.
I was exceedingly sick of the idleness of camp life, and hailed marching orders with delight, as did all the boys, who, like myself, delighted in a roving life.
The more lives lost in battle, the fewer the victims of camp life; and a sharp and decisive campaign is far less wasting to an army than one of idleness and inactivity.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "idleness" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
