idyll

• It was an Arcadian idyll, a reverie, a dream Almost You've fed my last fairy cake to the swans, Melrose," said the lady who was not Rosalind, poking her face into a white paper bag It was stale," said the gentleman who, although melancholy, was not Jacques. —  dirty duck.htm
• But the Maori chief goes forward with the idyll, and must be followed word for word, as Sir George wrote At the place where she landed there is a hot spring, separated from the lake only by a narrow ledge of rooks. —  The Romance of a Pro-Consul
• Twenty-one years after the Key West idyll, the man had thickened, grown coarser, yet there was the unmistakable sexual swagger, the sulky spoiled-boy mouth. —  EQMM,January2008
• The chief thing that is impressed on my memory was a curious and pathetic little idyll which is thus recorded in my Diary. —  The Adventure of Living
• When they arrive, they find their idyll has been bought by a real-estate company, which proposes to turn the land into a hateful "gated community"; the company has surrounded it with a fence and even given it a vulgar new name: Eden Lake. —  Film | guardian.co.uk

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