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To one speaker who held that every one in a free public library had the right to go to the shelves, and choose his books for himself, it was answered that this was equivalent to saying that it is the idler's right to stroll about in every place devoted to a special business, and interrupt that business at his pleasure.
A Book for All Readers An Aid to the Collection, Use, and Preservation of Books and the Formation of Public and Private Libraries Ainsworth Rand Spofford
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Suddenly into the idler's lotus-eating Paradise came a rushing sound.
Flint His Faults, His Friendships and His Fortunes Maud Wilder Goodwin
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It was an anger that shore away heads as recklessly as wayside flowers are flicked from their stems by the idler's cane.
The Trampling of the Lilies Rafael Sabatini 1912
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He was a Frenchman of the old school, and music was to him an idler's job.
Jean Christophe: in Paris The Market-Place, Antoinette, the House Romain Rolland 1905
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He lost his case because it was proved that he had deliberately contrived the occurrence himself for the sake of getting an idler's pension at the expense of the railway company, being too dull to realize how much more he had to lose than to gain by the bargain even if he had won his case and received damages above his utmost hopes.
The Doctor's Dilemma: Preface on Doctors George Bernard Shaw 1903
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Young Westlake stood diffidently for two or three minutes beside Mr. Turner's chair, and then he put his hand on that summer idler's shoulder.
The Early Bird A Business Man's Love Story George Randolph Chester 1896
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The tunic should be fastened to the body by a girdle, the belt not going above the flank, like a woman's, nor left slack, so that the tunic flows loose, like an idler's.
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The idler's fate is the result of indolence and want of principle
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A woman's reputation -- a thing so lightly thrown away with an idler's word, a
Under Two Flags 1839-1908 Ouida 1873
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Might not the student afford some Hebrew roots, and the business man some of his half-crowns, for a share of the idler's knowledge of life at large, and Art of
The Pocket R.L.S., being favourite passages from the works of Stevenson Robert Louis Stevenson 1872
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