idler

• His prodigious capacity for work made Dr. Samuel Johnson seem an idler, and his varied attainments and activities were fairly a match for Gladstone. —  Recollections of a Long Life
• Better be the poorest drudge, with powers fitted to your station, than to be as I am, an idler--a mere looker-on at the world Why, Lucy! —  Evenings at Donaldson Manor Or, The Christmas Guest
• Never had words seemed idler, they had so much to say. —  Lost 1898
• But their day is fast passing away; and in place of the simple, happy creatures of a few years gone, we find the discontented and besotted idler--squalid and dirty The cant of to-day--that the race problem, if left alone, will settle itself--may have some possible proof in the distant future; but the few who are ignorant enough to-day to believe the "negro question" already settled may find that they are yet but on the threshold of the "irrepressible conflict" between nature and necessity To the natural impressibility of the southron, the Louisianian adds the enthusiasm of the Frenchman. —  Four Years in Rebel Capitals An Inside View of Life in the Southern Confederacy from Birth to Death
• Then the idler is a leech on himself--his own despoiler. —  Aims and Aids for Girls and Young Women On the Various Duties of Life, Physical, Intellectual, And Moral Development; Self-Culture, Improvement, Dress, Beauty, Fashion, Employment, Education, The Home Relations, Their Duties To Young Men, Marriage, Womanhood And Happiness.

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