ruralizing

Moreover, she was faithful to the Marquis, so wonderful a circumstance that her friend and admirer wrote an elegy upon that circumstance, in which he draws a picture of the pleasures of the ancients in ruralizing, but reproaches Ninon for indulging in a passion for so long a period to the detriment of her other friends and admirers.

Ninon de L'Enclos the Celebrated Beauty of the 17th Century Robinson, Charles Henry 1903

Then there is his Excellency the "royal Chamberlain" -- a sinecure, for his majesty dresses himself with his own hands, except when he is ruralizing at Waikiki and then he requires no dressing.

Roughing It Mark Twain 1872

Then there is his Excellency the "royal Chamberlain" -- a sinecure, for his majesty dresses himself with his own hands, except when he is ruralizing at Waikiki and then he requires no dressing.

Roughing It, Part 7. Mark Twain 1872

Then there is his Excellency the "royal Chamberlain" -- a sinecure, for his majesty dresses himself with his own hands, except when he is ruralizing at Waikiki and then he requires no dressing.

Roughing It 1871

Doubtless for a long time the exiled monarch, pensively ruralizing in

The Piazza Tales Herman Melville 1855

'In fairy bowers by moonlight hours,' to convince one that instead of ruralizing in the country, you had gone

Rural Architecture Being a Complete Description of Farm Houses, Cottages, and Out Buildings Lewis Falley Allen 1845

The place of refreshment for the ruralizing cockney of 1737 was a substantial-looking tenement of the good old stamp, with great bay windows, and a balcony in front, bearing as its ensign the jovial visage of the lusty knight, Jack

Rookwood William Harrison Ainsworth 1843

In a week Edward Houstoun's friends had grown weary of ruralizing -- they found no longer any music in the crack of a fowling-piece, or any enjoyment in the dying agonies of the feathered tribes, and, having resisted all their persuasions to return with them, he was left alone.

Evenings at Donaldson Manor Or, The Christmas Guest 1840

Wallis's nephew had several times invited me to pay him a visit at his uncle's house, at Crouchend; and so once, during the absence of that gentleman who was ruralizing at Tonbridge, I trudged down to his villa.

Sketches — Volume 05 Robert Seymour 1818

Wallis's nephew had several times invited me to pay him a visit at his uncle's house, at Crouchend; and so once, during the absence of that gentleman who was ruralizing at Tonbridge, I trudged down to his villa.

Sketches — Complete Robert Seymour 1818