Miss Leigh was reading; Mrs. Stewart idly watching the breakers roll up to the cliffs.
He let the Omar fall idly into his lap, and gave himself up to listening to Belden's reading.
After a short and broken sleep, he awoke, and lighting a candle, read idly and gloomily to pass the heavy hours.
The years were obliterated in a flash; he put out his hand idly to the arcade, where the pillars stood out from the wall, and his fingers touched a small dusty thing that lay between a pillar and the stones.
The stone dropped idlyinto the wave, sprinkling the short cloaks, and embroidered tunics of the little group.
Her palfrey was discoveredidly cropping the grass, but all trace of its fair rider was lost.
Eugene saw a young girl in his room, sitting up near the screen, idly gazing about.
He browsed idlythrough one book after another, wondering about life.
Many might with joy have sought out her liberal dwelling, but no one had idly waited till the moment it was at her disposal.
I idly speak, some fainting object dies for want of succour!
The wind, too, blows only in fitful gusts and through long intervals of perfect calm the sails flap idly and uselessly against the mast.
Ever since the storm-cloud brought us the too transient shower the sky has been tolerably clear, and although at that time the wind had slightly freshened, it has since dropped, and the sail hangs idly against our mast.
He paused a little, panting in the gallery under the ball, and idly kicked his heels, moving a few yards along it.
The other continued still unruffled, and staring over the edge idly as an angler stares down at a stream.
Other persons of authority hurried about, talking and gesticulating; and a number of workmen waitedidly for orders.
She turned to the veiled window and idly pulled the blind and looked out.
A good angel made her restless, and she went idly to the window and glanced upon the empty, shuttered Square.
Such Drury claimed and claims--nor you refuse One tribute to revive his slumbering muse; With garlands deck your own Menander's head, 40 Nor hoard your honours idly for the dead!
Shall Scythian tribes desert their distant north, And Getae haste to view the fall of Rome, And I look idly on?
Lounging against the panel of the companion hatch, from which Landon and his companion had just emerged, sat the skipper, Signor Luigi, idly whittling a stick, and looking up at his passenger with an amiable indifference.
The motor launch floated idly on the ripples at the landing stage immediately below the citadel.
The great churchyard elms roared and swayed, and I found myself watching idly how the clergyman's hood was blown sideways by the wind.
Without looking at her, he loosed her hands, swung them idly and let them go.
Did Beauchamp at all desire to have those idlylovely adornments of riches, the Yacht and the Lady, swept away?
In an uncounted moment, while she had been turning over the leaves of a book, or idly talking with Madame Bernard, or plucking a withered leaf from one of the plants outside the window, he had been fighting for his life and had lost it.
It was very good, and she chattedidly while she slowly drank it and nibbled a thin, crisp biscuit.
But for all that he talked, and Grace listened, her sewing lying idly in her lap; one hand shading her face, the other held in his.
At this window which was open, sat the seamstress, her work lying idly on her lap, twisting her fingers in a restless, nervous sort of way peculiar to her.
The seamstress sat while the dismal daylight faded drearily out, her hands lying idlyin her lap, her great, melancholy dark eyes fixed on the fast-falling snow.
The needle is thus prevented from idly swinging about at each deflection, and the separate signals are rendered abrupt and 'dead beat,' as it is called.
His eyes grew redder still as he spied a policeman standing idly in a doorway.
And then, when the six of us stood huddled in the rank growth at the water's edge, we saw a boat floating idly in the forest shadow on the far side.
But one cold Sunday afternoon, as I made my way, in answer to her invitation, to see Nancy Willett, I found myself wondering idly whether she might not be by way of making a shrewd guess as to the object of Hambleton's affections.
When she had walked a little way she looked back over her shoulder to see him leaning idlyagainst the post, gazing after her, and waving his hammer in friendly fashion.
One evening when the sails flapped idly and the blocks rattled, when they had been watching in silence the flaming orange of the sunset above the amethystine Camden hills, he spoke the words for which she had been waiting.
With white face he climbed to the roof of the cabin and idly seizing the great limb that lay there tried to move it.
And I know not how long I lay idly thus when I perceived Mrs. Willis moving quietly about, and my grandfather sitting in the armchair by the window, looking into Freshwater Lane.
Austen sat for a long time after reading this letter, idly watching the snow-clouds gathering around Sawanec.
When he returned, he found his daughter sittingidly on the porch.
That they who had saved the city to the Union were more or less in communication with a simple and democratic President; that in all their lives they had never been in the habit of sitting idly for two hours to mop their brows.
The touch of the coming day was on the lake, and I made out the two boats dimly, riding on the dead swell and tuggingidly at their chains.
She lay in a chaise longue, watching it swinging idly at the dock.
He relapsed into thought, his wrinkled hand lyingidly on the table.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "idly" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
