idleness
idlesse literary

But after five months he lost interest in idleness, too.

She would have had me support the old man in idleness, but I am not one of that kind.

No, probably, six months of idleness and he'd have had it.

He saw his former life as a long dream of idleness.

Then each member of the family would go about his or her work, for idleness had no place with them.

Having set herself upon a course of action, she could not bear idleness.

He even knew how it might be done, but forced himself to idleness.

Why should us hard working taxpayers pay for their idleness.

Leave your idleness at home and bring a sense of adventure instead.

Idleness accomplished nothing and only left more to be done down the road.

Idleness is the worst thing in the world to a prison.

There is very little to do here; idleness quickly makes one tired.

But one day of idleness was enough to satisfy that need.

I want action; these three weeks of idleness have tried my nerves.

Even as it is, we should be able to get through a considerable time of idleness.

It is not as if he will be retiring to a life of idleness.

Idleness, in this nation of no work, will not be encouraged.

He thought his own idleness and the other's industry equally becoming.

If he returned to the country, idleness would ruin him.

After our return to the dead city I passed several days in comparative idleness.

To see your friends in idleness, you will hear of some trouble affecting them.

Eight days of enforced idleness and little food had made a great difference to him.

He put this down to them growing up in period of idleness and misery.

Seen from a local level, the Church was an extraordinary mixture of idleness and industry.

There was no money for school, and he ached from idleness.

I will repeat it anon and anon in mine idlesse, whereby I may peradventure learn it.