One, who presided chiefly over the Campo San Stefano, professed to be also a facchino, but I never saw him employed, except in addressing select circles ofidlers whom a brawling noise always draws together in Venice.
All day long the people sit and drink coffee and eat ices and gossip together before the caffè, and the soft midnight sees the same diligent idlers in their places.
We used to fancy, with a certain luxurious sense of our own safety, that one broadside from those fortressed eyes could blow from the water the slight pleasure-boats in which the young Venetian idlers were innocently disporting.
As for the carnival, which once lasted six months of the year, charming hither all the idlers of the world by its peculiar splendor and variety of pleasure, it does not, as I said, any longer exist.
Towards noon the idlers and ladies bent on shopping expeditions cross over, and for a few hours the ferries are comparatively dull.
Its members are all men of great wealth, and its windows are always lined with idlerswho seem to have nothing to do but to stare ladies passing by out of countenance.
While, however, we must recognise that the number ofidlers was very large, we must be careful not to exaggerate.
No town-bred idlers here are found: No cellarer grows pale with sloth, No trainer wastes his oil, but both Go forth afield and subtly plan To snare the greedy ortolan.
There were idlers and vagabonds on a level with the mendicant friars and pardon-sellers of the time of Chaucer.
Here, waiting groups of idlers shouted with delight as the bootblacks, King Pedro in the lead, rounded the corner of San Carlos.
Reaching the margin of the churchyard he looked over the wall, his presence being masked by bushes and a group of idlers from Markton who stood in front.
Mr. Power and Mrs. Goodman decided that they would wait with the rest of the idlers and see the puppets perform at the striking.
At a quarter to twelve children and idlers began to gather against the railings of Havill's house.
This was the case with her aunt, who was looking out of the window at some idlers from Markton walking round the castle with their eyes bent upon its windows, and she made no haste to reply.
Among those whose ears had been reached by the hurrahs of these idlers was a man in silence and solitude, far out of the town.
The idlers of the club perceived this, and commented on the fact.
He observed that no one heeded their conversation, and that the soldier made his way through the various groups of idlers unnoticed, as if invisible.
The picturesque groups of idlers and traffickers were more interesting to us than the palaces with sculptured fronts and old Roman busts, or tombs of the Scaligers, and old gates.
Here at noon, with parade of infantry, comes a military band to play for half an hour; and there are always plenty of idlers to listen to them.
Here and there is a gayly-painted wooden canopy by the shore, with chairs where idlers can sit and watch the frolicking in the water, or a space railed off, where the select of the hotels lie or lounge in the sand under red umbrellas.
Odeon, a band plays in an open Loggia, and there is always a crowd of idlers in the square to hear it.
The sparrows twittered in Madison Square, the idlerssat in the sun, the children chased their hoops about the fountain.
There seemed to be no idlers about, to reprove; the occasional lounger on the skeleton wharves was in his Sunday clothes, and therefore within the statute.
Did he loaf in the coffee-houses, and spin the fine thread of his adventures to the idlers and gallants who resorted to them?
In this immense assembly the crowd does not trouble itself much to watch the crowd; each one's interest is impassioned, and even idlers are preoccupied.
At this moment journalists, dandies, and idlers were all examining the charming subject of their bet as horse-dealers examine a horse for sale.
And the funniest part of it is that many of the clever people, and all the would-be clever people, allow the idlers so to impose upon them.
To listen to conversation about such things would mean to be bored, wherefore the idlers decree that such things are shop and must not be talked about.
And then the Corniche Railway was put through, placing Monaco on the road between Paris and Italy; and all the gamblers and idlersof the world came flocking here within a few years.
But the lulling music that rang in the ears of the idlers took all significance away from the fearful disguise of the boats, and from the cautious slowness with which they were gliding along off the Shores of Pleasure.
The idlers who promenaded around the "Camembert" frequently saw him enter the Casino with an absent-minded air, like a gambler who has just thought of a new combination.
Idlers from the entire globe were attracted to this room.
He went down the drive; outside the gate he saw some idlers who had been there when he drove in a little while back; he asked them if any one answering to the girl's description had come out.
In the meantime Julia had set out for the market-place as the idlers had said.
A busy man has to protect himself against the cranks and idlers who try to gain access to him, and most men have to have devices by which they can rid themselves of objectionable or tiresome callers.
He is a target for cranks and idlers and freaks as well as for earnest business men who want to help him or to get help from him.
It was now late; traffic on the river had almost ceased; there was no attraction for idlers on the landing-stage in the cold and the darkness.
A few idlers and five or six fishermen had gathered on the shore, attracted by the strange spectacle of two men fighting with the water up to their knees.
A crowd of curious idlers followed the richly dressed attendants, amongst whom they mistook the steward and the secretary for the master and his friend.
Probably in all civilized and luxurious capitals that philosophy is very much the same among the same class ofidlers at the same age; probably it flourishes in Pekin not less than at Paris.
Grimm and Ferrier headed other detachments that startled the well-dressed idlers on the Boulevards.
Frederic, as the three men went slowly down through the darkening streets--the roar of the Prussian guns heard afar, while distinct and near rang the laugh of the idlersround the Punch without a dog.
But with the tone of manners Alain de Rochebriant imbibed still more insensibly the lore of that philosophy which young idlers in pursuit of pleasure teach to each other.
The other $54 which the farmer must pay goes to the idlers in the form of rent, interest and profit.
Tell him that you know, regardless of figures, that there are many idlers who are enormously rich and many honest, industrious workers who are miserably poor.
Would there not be gluts as before, with panics, misery, unemployed armies sullenly parading the streets; idlers in mansions and toilers in hovels?
The fortunes of the rich idlers come from the unpaid-for labor of the working class.
And each day a friendly intercourse was established between the working-women of the pavement and the idlers of the boarding school.
Once on the gun-deck again we two lads were forced to tell the idlers all that had occurred; and we were no sooner done with our yarn than Master Hackett appeared, looking much as if he had just been made master of a prize.
It was good practice for Lieutenant Downes's fleet of boats, and he did all the work, us idlers overhanging the rail as we watched the sport.
Ay," muttered the burgher, "your idlers have nothing better to do, than to make words answer for deeds.
Beckoning to one of theseidlers to follow him, the hero of the India-shawl stepped into an empty boat, and casting loose its fast, he sculled the light yawl towards the craft which was awaiting his arrival.
We forced our way through crowds of merchants, each crying his wares; through buyers and sellers and idlers of every description, chattering and chaffering in all the languages of the world.
Lack of energy, lack of initiative, lack of opportunity, lack also of guides have made your subjects suffering idlers whose very existence is a curse to themselves and an unsolved problem for others.
Past bridges, where there were idlers too; loitering and looking over.
He misses in the "provincial solitude" the sympathetic public which was eager for his latest epigram, the fine critical judgment to appreciate, the concourse of elegant idlers to supply the matter for his verses.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "idlers" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
