| 单词 | leisured |
| 例句 | Many were students both ambitious for academic success and accustomed to leisured life in the sun. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z As the excellent Sweet Life and Super Rich Kids attest, Ocean is a great observer of the sunny uplands of leisured youth. Frank Ocean – review 2013-07-13T23:05:30Z For, while the leisured reading of a travel memoir by a noted navelgazer might offer an opportunity to identify with the author, there's something about actually watching it that rather alters the dynamic. Eat Pray Love trailer: Julia Roberts overindulges in navelgazing 2010-03-30T10:37:00Z That vision may chime with a growing readership in Asia's burgeoning leisured classes, with the new-found time to look back. Tash Aw: a life in writing 2013-03-15T08:00:27Z It's impossible not to be moved and impressed by the mettle these leisured intellectuals prove, when they're put to the stiff test. The Love-Charm of Bombs: Restless Lives in the Second World War – review 2013-01-18T09:00:02Z “We did this pause and were waking at nine in the morning to take leisured walks.” The Three A.M. Club 2020-10-30T04:00:00Z Instead Jaeger lays bear the spiritual ennui of a leisured civilization without real purpose. Review | Muriel Jaeger, a trailblazing science fiction author, deserves a new look 2021-03-24T04:00:00Z An idyllic, leisured summer is in prospect, with a little cataloguing and venturing out with Perlman to view those classical statues that have been recovered from the lake. The 50 top films of 2017: No 1 Call Me By Your Name 2017-12-22T05:00:00Z The airbrushed T-shirt, long consigned to the twin bastions of leisured Americana — malls and West Coast boardwalks — was “back.” Memorial T-Shirts Create a Little Justice, a Tiny Peace 2017-11-14T05:00:00Z Perhaps most striking of all is the leisured, unhurried pace of The French Connection. The French Connection: shock of the old 2011-07-14T11:24:26Z Even its visitors, sipping their espresso at the cafe Insensé on the front lawn, look more like leisured houseguests than the sort of wearied tourists you see at the Louvre. In France, a Visit With the In-Laws (Finally) Becomes a Vacation 2015-02-26T05:00:00Z It was open at weekends, unusual at a time when it was assumed that most people who visited galleries were from leisured, rather than working, classes. Beautiful south 2010-06-19T23:05:00Z The Fadimans led the sort of leisured, cushioned existence one reads about in novels by Louis Auchincloss and Evelyn Waugh. A daughter’s loving homage to her famed, flawed father 2017-11-01T04:00:00Z And the centerpiece, “A Month in the Country,” is a suspenseful tragicomic story about love and jealousy among vividly characterized individuals of the 19th-century leisured middle class. Dance Review: ‘Birthday Offering’ and ‘Les Noces’ at Royal Ballet, London 2012-07-08T21:27:34Z For their part, the leisured gents asserted their superiority by making a public show of their leisure or, as Veblen put it, their “conspicuous abstention from labour.” The man who saw Trump coming a century ago 2019-04-19T04:00:00Z I found it quite interesting: you’ve got the leisured classes who have become ineffectual and the downtrodden working classes. On my radar: Paul Simonon’s cultural highlights 2019-04-07T04:00:00Z When not idling in drawing rooms, members of the leisured class took long walks and stared at trees. Opinion | Let Children Get Bored Again 2019-02-02T05:00:00Z As in Austen’s novels, a busy underground stream of anxiety threatens to break the surface of leisured lives. Elizabeth Jane Howard: Hilary Mantel on the novelist she tells everyone to read 2016-01-30T05:00:00Z For most women involved in scientific and industrial work, the war offered a temporary reprieve from domestic servitude or leisured boredom. Women in science: A temporary liberation 2014-07-01T04:00:00Z Accepting and adjusting to social or economic change, unfortunately, requires prolonged “mental effort,” from which the leisured conservative mind quite automatically recoils. The man who saw Trump coming a century ago 2019-04-19T04:00:00Z Chekhov, in his short story Lady with the Lapdog, set in the resort of Yalta, captures the atmosphere of boredom and frustration of the leisured provincial classes on holiday in Yalta. The Crimea of Russia's imagination 2014-03-18T00:11:05Z Chekhov, in his short story, Lady with the Lapdog set in the resort of Yalta, captures the atmosphere of boredom and frustration of the leisured provincial classes on holiday in Yalta. The Crimea of Russia's imagination 2014-03-18T00:11:05Z Machiavelli wanted ruthlessness to be used for political ends - achieving a self-governing republic - whereas Ripley is ruthless in order to achieve purely personal ends - an affluent, leisured life in beautiful surroundings. Ten of popular culture's best Machiavellian characters 2013-05-23T05:13:07Z "Brit expat" isn't a phrase that easily fits the leisured world of the parasol, the day-old London newspaper and the creased linen suit. Is spending your last years in the sun avoiding British taxation really worth it? 2013-03-22T17:42:14Z A new kind of leisured prosperity is in evidence with an estimated 30 million Brazilians considering themselves to have entered the middle classes in the past decade. Enduring bravura of Brazil ready to decorate the Wembley stage 2013-02-02T22:00:05Z Now that there is a leisured and a wealthy class in Australia, this wealth of scenery is becoming a real fortune to Tasmania. Australian Pictures Drawn with Pen and Pencil 2012-04-02T02:00:28.873Z A leisured quiet, an ordered ease, reigned there too, as they had done for every day of Dorothea's thirty-five years. The Literary Sense 2012-04-02T02:00:28.147Z We who read the records of their times are apt to lament their passing, and to wish the leisured life and not a few of the usages of our grandfathers back again. The Portsmouth Road and Its Tributaries To-Day and in Days of Old 2012-03-25T02:00:04.800Z Then the objects exhibited were the property no longer of the leisured, or a patrician class. Social Transformations of the Victorian Age A Survey of Court and Country 2012-02-29T03:00:22.540Z A national debt, he maintains, enriches the capital at the expense of the provinces; further, it creates a leisured class of stockholders, and possesses all the disadvantages of paper credit. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 8 "Hudson River" to "Hurstmonceaux" 2012-02-24T03:00:27.173Z Before the introduction of steamers dahabeahs were generally used by travellers ascending the Nile, and they are still the favourite means of travelling for the leisured and wealthy classes. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 9 "Dagupan" to "David" 2012-02-11T03:03:39.807Z The existence of a very numerous leisured class is partly responsible, no doubt. England 2012-02-09T03:00:12.957Z All this concourse of apparently well-to-do and completely leisured people going seriously about a business so remote from any of the interests in life that she had known struck her as entirely strange and inexplicable. The Eldest Son 2012-01-24T03:00:28.780Z But these things can only be studied in leisured intimacy from a slow-going boat passing in the spring-time, when the blackthorn frosts the hedges and starry-eyed primroses grow to monstrous size. Cornwall 2012-01-20T03:00:16.790Z They have come from the office and the shop, from domestic service and the dressmaker’s room, from the High Schools and the Colleges, and from the quietude of the stately homes of the leisured rich. The Woman's Part A Record of Munitions Work 2011-12-31T03:00:15.627Z It was the intention of their parents to make homes for them under the ancestral roof, where they would lead the life of the leisured Hindu landowner. The Outcaste 2011-12-12T03:00:25.380Z To some of the wealthy and leisured, political activity in some direction or another is the chief interest of life. England 2012-02-09T03:00:12.957Z Back to her old haunt she went, to live again, till spring returned, her life of leisured ease. The Sun's Babies 2011-11-21T03:00:12.963Z Here are the best shops, the banks, and those elegant and ostentatious casinos, where the aristocracy and leisured class lounge and smoke, and survey at their ease the unceasing procession of passers by. Southern Spain 2011-11-11T03:00:28.423Z They too were men working for their living—we have no leisured class here—and few of them but had suffered from droughts and bad times, and depended on their clip to ease financial embarrassments. Thirty Years in Australia 2011-10-25T02:00:27.397Z "Here in one compact volume, is all that it is necessary to know about Chopin and his works except by the leisured enthusiast." The Influence of the Organ in History Inaugural Lecture of the Department of the Organ in the College of Music of Boston University 2011-10-20T02:00:26.947Z In India only in such places as this does one find the Englishman unoccupied by work; for in the East there is no leisured class of Europeans. Life in an Indian Outpost 2011-10-19T02:00:19.943Z It was slow and leisured, if not deliberately cautious. Ann Boyd 2011-09-29T02:00:14.220Z I think I shall become one of the intelligent leisured class. The Sea and the Jungle 2011-08-30T02:00:30.350Z In spite of his leisured attitude, deep emotion lit the eyes of the late Commandant of Borga, and an undercurrent of excitement kept his cigar glowing in a reckless manner. The Men Who Wrought 2011-07-26T02:00:16.320Z They are indeed the only leisured class in the country, the only large body of persons who are not called upon to win their daily bread in direct, wage-earning ways. The Teacher Essays and Addresses on Education 2011-07-19T02:00:17.220Z Their own standard of culture was higher than that of the leisured class to-day; but they took little interest in the lives of the poor, until they were forced to do so. The Victorian Age The Rede Lecture for 1922 2011-05-11T02:00:18.513Z They had not met for months for leisured talk. Domesday Book 2011-04-30T02:00:13.397Z Great Shelford is rather intelligent, and means well; many of its inhabitants are leisured, and will readily, if advised, form study circles and read recommended literature. Non-combatants and Others 2011-04-11T02:00:11.563Z Though it would only run for twenty-four hours, its leisured movement seemed to have the certainty of a natural law, especially to Agnes, for Mr. Tellwright never forgot to wind it before going to bed. Anna of the Five Towns 2011-03-08T03:00:38.117Z In opportunities for acquiring a mastery of language the poorest and busiest are at no large disadvantage as compared with the leisured rich. The Teacher Essays and Addresses on Education 2011-07-19T02:00:17.220Z Demurely down the road she came to where I lay sprawled on the river bank contemplating the leisured precision of the water-wheel beyond. Neighbours 2011-03-05T03:00:27.277Z For the most part, today's plutocrats are not a leisured, landed gentry of inherited wealth. How super rich left rest behind 2011-02-02T10:31:25Z Environed by so much persistent femininity, the rugged elderly toiler was at last nagged into accepting a leisured life in London. Ghetto Tragedies 2011-01-27T03:00:46.507Z Economics, therefore, under modern conditions, is not only a subject which may usefully occupy the attention of a leisured class of scientific men. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 10 "Echinoderma" to "Edward" 2011-01-19T03:00:19.027Z There thus arises a learned and leisured accumulation which capitally serves the country in case of a new educational need. The Teacher Essays and Addresses on Education 2011-07-19T02:00:17.220Z Cool thou liest, leisured, slow, On the plains of long ago, All unvexed of fretful trades Through thy rich and dim arcades, Overlooking lands below Terraced to thy green plateau. The Two Twilights 2010-12-25T03:00:12.393Z Mr. Price Collier's England and the English is the Toryism of an American who has enjoyed the hospitality of the leisured class, and has read the Times with some diligence. A Short History of English Liberalism 2010-12-22T15:03:38.007Z The number of the leisured class, enjoying large incomes without participating in any local industry, is relatively small, but is said to be on the increase. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Slice 7 "Bible" to "Bisectrix" 2010-12-20T17:12:05.780Z In the free political atmosphere of the Italian communes, with their wealthy and leisured merchant class, that spirit could flourish much more readily than in the feudalized Europe across the Alps. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 10 "Echinoderma" to "Edward" 2011-01-19T03:00:19.027Z I'm a little busy to offer myself at the moment but you may be in a more leisured situation. Claims Five: What we should know about horse racing stewards but don't 2010-06-04T09:00:00Z If we regard it as an idle accomplishment for the leisured few, its methods will be amateurish and superficial. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 6 "Armour Plates" to "Arundel, Earls of" The Dutchman whistled as he jogged along In leisured haste. Provocations For, whether it be hot or cold, work has to be done by all save the leisured classes. The Gay Adventure A Romance There was an atmosphere of rest about the History Sixth, a leisured dignity that contrasted very delightfully with the spectacled industry of the Upper Fifth. Sinister Street, vol. 1 You have the stamp of belonging to leisured people; it is plain from your walk and bearing, from your voice and manner of speech. An Engagement of Convenience A Novel The secretary of the Malthusian League made it clear in his evidence that he had a grievance against the educated and leisured classes in this country. Stand Up, Ye Dead Her mouth wore a gratified masculine smirk, visible even in the starlight; her gait was a leisured and lordly strut; her hand waved airy pity. Bransford of Rainbow Range Originally Published under the title of Bransford in Arcadia, or, The Little Eohippus Thus there would grow up a large body of men and women living segregated in institutions, and forming a leisured class able to superintend institutional charities. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 8 "Chariot" to "Chatelaine" Pig——” Through the week, painting at the school and black and white work in the evenings filled Nina’s mind to the exclusion even of strangers who might, in more leisured moments, seem worthy of observation. Man and Maid The leisured progress of the scene gave Jenny her first opportunity to scan the audience. Carnival It is that of many of the dwellers in the spacious squares and terraces where the rich and the leisured are segregated. Stand Up, Ye Dead It was therefore with real relief that one Saturday morning he received a telegraphic invitation from a leisured friend who diversified a roving existence by flying visits to his country home. What a Man Wills For all his leisured occupation he was quick enough when the call of "Signals" brought him to business. Merchantmen-at-arms : the British merchants' service in the war Through the open window from not far away came a hellish serenade, the noise of frogs—the high nervous voices of peepers punctuating the deep leisured booming of bullfrogs. The Record of Currupira Fine weather, if hot as the breath of Hades, and the last dying airs of the nor'-east trades drifting us to the south'ard at a leisured three knots. The Brassbounder A Tale of the Sea Because he wasn't, the leisured and the cultured sat in serried ranks at his feet. Stand Up, Ye Dead He is seldom fashionable and never leisured; he has a passion for learning all that there is to be known, and holds vigorous views upon most things. My Impressions of America The leisured class thus became the starving class, and the King's annual subsidies alone kept these families from destitution. Old Quebec The Fortress of New France The unio mystica can only be experienced by the leisured few. Monophysitism Past and Present A Study in Christology They lived before the hurry of our cheap periodical press, when men wrote leisurely for leisured readers. Flowers of Freethought (First Series) He knew that she had risen, not in frightened haste, but with a leisured and dainty dignity. The Princess Virginia The bonus over here, even if it passes, can never be an excuse for the rich and leisured not to go among the wounded either at their homes or in the hospitals. My Impressions of America To be clean, warm, well nourished, healthy, decently leisured, and free to move quickly about the world, are certainly pure benefits. Another Sheaf It must be remembered that there was one difficulty in the way—the absence of any noble or leisured class to be entrusted with the greater offices. The Soul of a People Not being an American, the author may use novel words without the fear of being called provincial; so that understandable, evidentiary, desiderate, leisured, and inamoveability stalk at large within his pages. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 86, December, 1864 For in a new and sparsely settled country there is no wealthy leisured class who have much time to devote to fishing. Fishing in British Columbia With a Chapter on Tuna Fishing at Santa Catalina There was an indefinite atmosphere of peace and repose about it, of leisured days haunted by no grey thoughts, very typical of the owner. Christopher Hibbault, Roadmaker Democracies must not be content to leave the ideals of health and beauty to artists and a leisured class; that is the way into a treeless, waterless desert. Another Sheaf The existence of a leisured class affords possibilities for the free development of originality, and a supply of disinterested men and women for the service of the State. Liberalism Compared with them, in his eyes she was probably a mere cumberer of the earth; an ornament, intended only to be admired by the leisured classes. The Rhodesian This we find in these great theocracies, where sufficient wealth enabled a class of leisured and honoured men to devote themselves to joint labour in observing nature and recording their observations. Progress and History With this idea in my head, and having a little leisured ease, I have set out to minister a long-felt want. A Yeoman's Letters Third Edition This work is 'a satire dealing with the whims and pleasures of the leisured class.' Gilbert Keith Chesterton The Emperor’s mood was leisured and cordial, and Cavour took the opportunity of bringing the Court of Turin into intimate but secret relations with that of the Tuileries. Lord John Russell And though he said nothing, he thought about it in his leisured moments; for dearer than all his wealth and his power and his success was his only child. The Rhodesian The smaller erotic collection in the locked bureau in the study presumably had companioned Sir Jacques' more leisured hours. The Orchard of Tears But the real link was that they both instinctively threw overboard all but the essential; they cared comparatively little for most of the preoccupations and smaller solicitudes of the women in their own leisured class. Bird of Paradise One of them had retired to a leisured affluence on the proceeds that a big cargo of almonds had yielded him at a startling turn in the market. Pan-Islam "Tell them you don't move in scenes of leisured anything." The Creators A Comedy The truth is, that the young American of gentle birth and leisured ease hates to soil his hands with public affairs. American Sketches 1908 But so many of the clergy seem to forget the fact that the leisured classes possess, by their wealth alone, the opportunity to create their own happiness. Over the Fireside with Silent Friends A strenuous life with my Regiment had stifled what little appreciation for such things a more leisured existence might have fostered. War and the Weird In England the Anglicans comprised the bulk of the people, and almost the whole of the cultivated and leisured classes; in Nova Scotia they were in the minority. The Tribune of Nova Scotia A Chronicle of Joseph Howe And judging from your leisured manner when we encountered you," added Thorndyke, "the practise is not a strenuous one. The Eye of Osiris The seasons had their leisured way; the people moved with heavy feet; the moor lay in its wisdom, suffering decay and growth. Moor Fires In the young man of the leisured classes this sense only awakens late in life. Nights in London The douanier was about to inspect, in his leisured way, when a peasant entered with some bags to be weighed. The Car of Destiny Smart clothing would be unnecessary also, and a hundred and one luxuries of a leisured life. The Lady of the Basement Flat There is a good deal in Count Lützov's contention, and this subject might well be taken up by some leisured student of history. From a Terrace in Prague The two thousand and odd novels which are published annually in this country show the existence of a large leisured class in our community, and this class is undoubtedly the feminine one. John Lyly Dickens was too bracing, one may say too bouncing himself to understand the psychology of fatigue in a protected and leisured class. Appreciations and Criticisms of the Works of Charles Dickens The house was soon in order and when my brother arrived later in the week, she greeted him with the composure of a leisured hostess. A Daughter of the Middle Border Social pressure may be exercised to keep men from seeking election, and so to perpetuate the existing severance between the leisured and wealthier classes and the main body of the nation. Irish Books and Irish People And the attitude towards art of the "collector" or the leisured "epicurean," for whom it is merely a pleasant sensation among other sensations, is an attitude which undermines the basis of its life. The Complex Vision With the world at peace, the Consulate had leisured to reconstruct the constitution. Heroes of Modern Europe Ah, you are speaking of your experience as a leisured girl—a girl living at home with her mother behind her. The Independence of Claire Up to the present this has been a pastime for leisured travellers like Lord Southesk, Sir Charles Dilke, and Rider Haggard. The Masques of Ottawa The upper class have always had Indians to wait upon them, and a Quixotic tendency to the despising of manual labour has naturally resulted, as among the leisured class of any other country. Mexico Its Ancient and Modern Civilisation, History, Political Conditions, Topography, Natural Resources, Industries and General Development The deadly enemy of art�the power that has succeeded, in these commercial days, in reducing art to a pastime for the leisured and wealthy�is the original inert malice of the abyss. The Complex Vision The girls were drawn from all classes, and comprised school-teachers, domestic servants, shopgirls, stenographers, and the leisured daughters of the middle classes or of wealthy persons. Lloyd George The Man and His Story Long and narrow wings give a swift and rapid flight, broad round wings a slow and leisured flight. Chatterbox, 1905. That is why even at the present day the vast majority of the Irish landed and leisured classes are Protestants. Home Rule Second Edition Of such mettle normally were the New Babylonians who took their leisured way beneath the fluted columns of the court-house into Shelby's rally; but this audience felt itself more than normally temperate and judicial. The Henchman As the discovery was not made till the train reached Orange, it is, of course, impossible to know where the unfortunate woman, who, by her dress, belonged to the leisured class, entered the train. The Uttermost Farthing In their luxurious and leisured homes they sheltered the arts that made life richer and the philosophy, or religion, that gave them a good conscience in the work they loved. The Age of the Reformation His breeding, his high name, his leisured poverty, his passionate friendship, his looking forward always to a new thing, a creation--all this, was the Renaissance in person. Avril Being Essays on the Poetry of the French Renaissance He was typical of that very large class of leisured landowner in whose creed good form is next above godliness. Swirling Waters Sprague named his train after a leisured moment's study of an illustration. The Henchman They represent the only leisured class in America. Post-Prandial Philosophy Of churches where the hard-working manual toiler may be found side by side with the cultured and the idle and the leisured—there is none. The Canadian Commonwealth It is a restricted leisured body to which the Free Press appeals. The Free Press His first day in that leisured, peaceful, fragrant town, nestling amongst the hills against the keen mistral, had decided him to settle there for some weeks. Swirling Waters I’d been up since five p. 53that morning myself; and his own work, which was scouring milk-cans for twelve hours a day, didn’t strike me as suggesting a life of leisured ease. The Observations of Henry There is in America a certain anarchy in questions of taste and manners which the long possession of a leisured, a cultivated class tends to save us from in England. The Land of Contrasts A Briton's View of His American Kin As the horse swung along in leisured walking stride, the girl seemed to have gone to sleep; her cheek lay against Barlow's shoulder, and he could feel the pulsating throb of her heart. Caste Practically, as well as theoretically, there is no aristocracy in Australia, and the number of leisured men is yet too small for them to form a class by themselves. Town Life in Australia As he crossed the Wilhelmstrasse—gay with its alluring shops and its crowd of well-dressed, leisured saunterers—a man came up with outstretched hand to Rivière and then hesitated visibly. Swirling Waters As in Egypt, civilization made progress when wealth was accumulated in sufficient abundance to permit of a leisured class devoting time to study and research. Myths of Babylonia and Assyria Let others go in Harris tweeds, Men of the leisured sort; Mine are the modest, homely needs That with my state comport; I am a simple labouring man whose work is all his sport. Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 158, 1920-02-25 Hither and thither men and women hurried about their business; there seemed few indeed nowadays of the leisured loiterers through life. The Moon out of Reach She had had the most leisured, peaceful, and thoughtful time of her life; and all really thanks to him. The Enchanted April But Lars Larssen, with his broad frame and his masterful step, was markedly out of harmony with that atmosphere of leisured artificiality. Swirling Waters A leisured class had come into existence, with the result that culture was fostered and civilization advanced. Myths of Babylonia and Assyria Most officers, belonging as they did to the comparatively wealthy and leisured classes, had been able to cultivate luxuries like good-nature, benevolence and politeness all their lives. Combed Out All the walks of life wherein men proceed as though they belonged to the leisured class are becoming no fit places for self-respecting people. Side Lights She leaned back among the fat cushions, pretty and leisured as he had been used to seeing her before their marriage, only now she had something else about her which he could not define. Married Life The True Romance The whole town wore an air of leisured superiority as if conscious that there can be no need for special effort when the gods bring pilgrims to provide for the wants of its "twice-born" inhabitants. India, Old and New The army, which was recruited mainly from the leisured and official classes, went practically out of existence, so that traders and agriculturists obtained relief from taxation at the expense of their material security. Myths of Babylonia and Assyria I had designed, indeed, that after staying his full time at Oxford he should make the Grand Tour with me and prepare himself for his destiny by a leisured study of cities and men. Sir John Constantine Memoirs of His Adventures At Home and Abroad and Particularly in the Island of Corsica: Beginning with the Year 1756 Robert, noting all, with leisured enjoyment strolled lazily into the little copse, and lay down beneath the cool, grateful shelter of the trees. The Underworld The Story of Robert Sinclair, Miner Always, when he returned, by the dining-room fire, in an easy chair and a decent frock, sat Marie, sweet and leisured. Married Life The True Romance The Eloi, according to the hypothesis of the Time Traveller, are the descendants of the leisured classes; the Morlocks of the workers. H. G. Wells Discontented and unemployed officials, and many representatives of the despoiled leisured and military classes of Lagash, no doubt sought refuge elsewhere, and fostered the spirit of revolt which ever smouldered in subject states. Myths of Babylonia and Assyria Nails were worn long by members of the literary and leisured classes. Myths and Legends of China In our own day the reluctance of rich and self-indulgent women to bear children is undoubtedly a factor in the infertility of the leisured class. Outspoken Essays The national loss is heavy; the waste of talent and of driving-power, for Ireland needs driving-power from her leisured and cultured classes, is melancholy to contemplate. The Framework of Home Rule Up till ten o'clock this morning I was of the leisured classes like yourselves. Living Alone She would not live a leisured, vegetable life, with no greater ambition than to marry and bear children. The Man in the Twilight Worn long by literary and leisured classes, 47 Fire. Myths and Legends of China And you who stroll in leisured ease Along your city squares, Thank those who there have fought the trees, And howling wolves and bears. Thoughts, Moods and Ideals: Crimes of Leisure What I had transcribed before leaving Japan I have now Page xiii been able in the course of a leisured year in England to overhaul and to supplement by up-to-date statistics in an extensive Appendix. The Foundations of Japan Notes Made During Journeys Of 6,000 Miles In The Rural Districts As A Basis For A Sounder Knowledge Of The Japanese People For the first time in his life Tony Luton discovered that agents and managers were a leisured class, and that office boys had manners. When William Came Unknowing it, he had a sense of beauty, and he decided that horticulture, for a leisured man, was well worth a trial. Hocken and Hunken Clowes pursued his leisured catechism while he helped himself daintily to a fragile sandwich. Nightfall The cane seems to be a distinguishing mark of the leisured class. African Camp Fires Following these precepts, I have tried to apply in the business of public administration the principles which I learnt from thee in leisured seclusion. The Consolation of Philosophy They look round for some one to blame for what has happened; they blame the politicians, they blame the leisured classes; in an indirect way I believe they blame the Church. When William Came Novelists, and artists, leisured people, women, everyone could be of use, if they would investigate themselves, or offer their minds for investigation. Cobwebs of Thought She lifted the babe on her arm and stood gazing at Lawrence in a leisured and friendly manner, as if she wondered who he were. Nightfall It must not be supposed that all that has been described is only possible, or only needed, in the boarding school or only for a specially leisured class. Cambridge Essays on Education He turned from her the next moment to meet her mother, and she heard him speaking in his easy, leisured tones, gaining time for her, making her path easy, as had ever been his custom. Greatheart Our leisured class, moribund before the war, died peacefully in its sleep the year before last. Since Cézanne With a perfect lower house, the second chamber would be of scarcely any value; but beside the actual house, a revising and leisured legislature is extremely useful. The World's Greatest Books — Volume 12 — Modern History Historic houses full of all things lovely, leisured, delightful people, the money, and the freedom to go where one listed: no pinching, no striving, no sordid cares. Penny Plain He became a partisan of Cæsar in the struggle with Pompey, and to this he owed the pro-consulship of Numidia, on the proceeds of which he retired into leisured ease. The World's Greatest Books — Volume 11 — Ancient and Mediæval History The satiric romance, "Harry Richmond," often reminds of the leisured episode method of the eighteenth century; and while reading the unique "Evan Harrington" we think at times of Aristophanes. Masters of the English Novel A Study of Principles and Personalities Has she not become the leisured class of the world, and, as such, responsible to civilization for the maintenance of those standards without which civilization falls? Since Cézanne The white-throat's distant descant with slow stress Note after note upon the noonday falls, Filling the leisured air at intervals With his own mood of piercing pensiveness. Lyrics of Earth The great principle of conspicuous ritualistic waste had been illustrated in a manner to satisfy the most exacting standard of the leisured class; and incidentally a subject of talk was provided. The Roll-Call It might have been the work of some fastidious woman or of some leisured scholar; so much pride of penmanship was there. Witness for the Defense All down the Rue Beaune we ran, and already I could hear behind me the heavy and more leisured tramp of a couple of gendarmes who in their turn had started to give chase. Castles in the Air Renan recognized that a leisured class is the source of civilization; whether he also recognized that there is no earthly reason why a leisured class should be the ruling class is not clear. Since Cézanne They both gain and lose by being without a leisured class; it narrows their horizon, but saves them from a vast deal of hysterical nonsense, social mischief and blatant self-advertising. The Long White Cloud Where formerly the interest of the leisured woman in her wage-earning sisters was of a sentimental or philanthropic character, it has become practical and democratic. What eight million women want And here, perhaps, I may take occasion to draw attention to the importance of the acquisition of political knowledge by all citizens of the state, and especially by those who belong to the leisured classes. Progressive Morality An Essay in Ethics The leisured classes found their keenest relish in delicate irony, in piquancy, in contained vivacity, in the study of niceties of observation and finish of phrase. Studies in Literature In one of his early essays Renan points out that the proper apology for the old French aristocracy is that it performed the proper function of a leisured class. Since Cézanne Then he told me with them the leisured class had no responsibilities, except to keep an eye on their brokers, and so they got into mischief. Elizabeth Visits America Stories of seizures, strokes and "goes" of delirium tremens met with no rebuke nor contradiction from him—and an air of leisured ease and unanxious peacefulness pervaded the Gungapur Fusiliers. Driftwood Spars The Stories of a Man, a Boy, a Woman, and Certain Other People Who Strangely Met Upon the Sea of Life He might have been seeking merely the refreshment of watching the six-fifty-eight come in and go out, as did a dozen or so of the more leisured class of Newbern. The Wrong Twin Such a book as this has little interest for the general reader, yet, amongst the leisured few who are able to read mathematics for their own sake, the treatise has found warm admirers. The Life and Letters of Lewis Carroll (Rev. C. L. Dodgson) In Europe we have now no leisured class; we have only a number of rich men, mere wealth-producers, who perform for high wages the useful functions that miners and milkmaids perform for low ones. Since Cézanne The Close is bordered by beautiful old houses, some quite noble in their proportions, but likely to be overlooked by all but the most leisured visitor. Wanderings in Wessex An Exploration of the Southern Realm from Itchen to Otter The educated and leisured classes have been rotten with individualism for a century; they have destroyed the confidence of the worker in any leadership whatever. What is Coming? "Don't be too positive about the portage work; fishermen do not exactly come under the heading of the leisured classes, and I may be glad to earn an honest dollar where I can." A Countess from Canada A Story of Life in the Backwoods She was free, though a leisured woman, from the requirement of an heir for a great family estate. Stories from Everybody's Magazine Work girls, shop assistants and so forth, the class that have neither the happy-go-lucky freedom of the poor nor the leisured freedom of the rich, came specially within the range of her sympathy. Beasts and Super-Beasts It was a louring, mournful, still afternoon, when a religion of some sort seems a necessity to ordinary practical men, and not only a luxury of the emotional and leisured classes. Jude the Obscure It was the day of a great national festival, on which leisured enjoyment took the place of work and every one strove to banish for the time the promptings of anxiety and fear. A History of Rome During the Later Republic and Early Principate In its entirety the Roman de Lusignan was, if appearances are to be trusted, a leisured and ambitious handling of the Melusina legend; but in the preserved portion Melusina figures hardly at all. Domnei A Comedy of Woman-Worship The greatest possible liberty should be allowed to the leisured classes, for they possess something to keep, they have everything to lose, they can never be dissolute. Honore de Balzac, His Life and Writings The Klondike person dispatched her commissions in a superbly leisured manner, attentively accompanied by the Earl of Brinstead bearing packages for her. Ruggles of Red Gap They belonged to the same generation; they had similar tastes; they were both of some considerable power in the world of leisured pleasure; and, lastly, they amused each other. With Edged Tools Such activity could be displayed at Rome only by the leisured senator or the leaders of the city mob. A History of Rome During the Later Republic and Early Principate Thus also are generated in the rich and leisured classes that intense selfishness of the rising generation so movingly portrayed in M. Hervieu's play, "La Course du Flambeau." East of Paris Sketches in the Gâtinais, Bourbonnais, and Champagne The latter has been at pains to record the events of the afternoon and evening, so that I give you his own account of them, though I abridge in consideration of his leisured style. Gallantry Dizain des Fetes Galantes Though we have people in abundance of ample means," he went on, "you will regret to know that we have not achieved a leisured class. Ruggles of Red Gap But what refuge is there for the poor leisured people but these diversions which you despise? The Christian A Story They are of that funny English type, Mary, the leisured; their business in life that of pleasure seeking; their social service consisting in benevolent domination over the servile classes beneath them. A Fountain Sealed The fact is significant, because studies and literary activities like theirs could hardly have been pursued except in highly civilized, free and leisured societies where life and wealth were secure. The Ancient East To follow up his wondrous metamorphoses through medievalism would be a pastime worthy of some leisured dilettante. Old Calabria We waited in the usual throng of the leisured lower-classes who are so naïvely pleased at the passage of a train. Ruggles of Red Gap He was better dressed than his companions, and from this fact, combined with his intonation, I gathered that he belonged to the leisured classes. A Girl Among the Anarchists We were jolting Tonbridge-wards in the Tinker's cart; the afternoon was very hot, and Diogenes, hearing the murmur of our voices, subsided to a leisured amble like the knowing, four-footed philosopher he was. Peregrine's Progress Mysterious of eye, leisured, vividly red and white, they followed the old man as queens might follow an usher. Gone to Earth The other is the true centre of the leisured class, the philosophers' rendezvous. Old Calabria Needless to say, Vergil's leisured competence during many years did not draw from such a trickling source. Vergil A Biography Cammilla settled down as best she could to a life of leisured ease—a lonesome woman, a prisoner under close observation. The Tragedies of the Medici We were almost convinced that the country cottage and the leisured ease of our dreams were within our grasp, but the well ran dry at that point. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 153, October 3, 1917 But as the time approached for catching a train he became exasperatingly calm and leisured. Pebbles on the shore [by] Alpha of the plough His evening clothes were without fault, but as much might be said of ten thousand men who might be seen any night in the public rendezvous of leisured London. Red Masquerade And, judging from your leisured manner when we encountered you," added Thorndyke, "the practice is not a strenuous one. The Vanishing Man The Forum—gilt-edged marble, tinted statuary, a mosaic pavement like a rich-hued carpet from the looms of Babylon—began to overflow with leisured men of business. Caesar Dies The planters have, as a rule, invested all their belongings in their plantations, and make the country more a home than our people in East Africa, who are of a more wealthy and leisured class. Sketches of the East Africa Campaign The telephone she esteemed a convenience for tradespeople and vulgarians in general, beneath the dignity of leisured quality. Alias the Lone Wolf The sheltered conditions and leisured life which they enjoy as the parasites of a dominant race have produced in them a false sense of security. England and the War Fair to look upon while still in the air, these fruits of leisured superannuation proved deceptively unsound when plucked by the hand of experiment. The Press-Gang Afloat and Ashore Of all the learned professions it seemed to me that that of the kidnapper most urgently demanded certain intervals for leisured thought, in which schemes and plots might be matured. The Little Nugget In opportunities for acquiring a mastery of language, the poorest and busiest are at no large disadvantage as compared with the leisured rich. Public Speaking Yet in so far as he is intended as a portrait of a critic, he stands as an ideal of the leisured view of books. Definitions: Essays in Contemporary Criticism He has opened his house on the Carinae and had it put in order and has settled down to such a life here as is usual with wealthy leisured idlers. The Unwilling Vestal And I'm a leisured dilettante compared to most of the others. King of the Khyber Rifles Here is a delightful occupation for those of the leisured class who have the gift, and a much more effective way of reading aloud. The Art of the Story-Teller We of the leisured classes can spend hours over our toilet; by all means let us despise those who cannot. Not that it Matters There has been no leisured view of books in America since Thoreau, or Washington Irving. Definitions: Essays in Contemporary Criticism In the leisured classes there is often no real family life at all. Getting Married To say that among the leisured classes such practices were raging like a pestilence would be no exaggeration. The Metropolis Both sides could leave out of their counsels the interests of the leisured class, since the leisured class in Elgin consisted almost entirely of persons who were too old to work, and therefore not influential. The Imperialist It was flattering to be classified with leisured and opulent young Guardsmen; but what, Paul reflected with a qualm, would the kind lady say if she learned the real state of his present fortunes? The Fortunate Youth The leisured members of the Cabinet speak in the Lords with authority and power. The English Constitution Possibly some time in the past the Spences had been a leisured people. The Window-Gazer There were few men with leisure in South Australia, and, if there were, the leisured man was scarcely likely to take up reform work. An Autobiography The country's material prosperity at the time was considerable, and reacted upon literature of every kind by furnishing a more leisured public. Balzac It was the hour of the promenade in the Summer Garden, or the drive in the Newski Prospect, so that all the leisured class were in another quarter of the town. The Vultures But though beside an ideal House of Commons the Lords would be unnecessary, and therefore pernicious, beside the actual House a revising and leisured legislature is extremely useful, if not quite necessary. The English Constitution This obstacle had now been overcome, and the original searchers, their ranks swelled by a few dozen more of the leisured classes, were hot on the trail again. Indiscretions of Archie They walked in couples, with interlaced arms; and members of the Matriculation Class carried books with them, the present year being one of much struggling and heartburning, and few leisured moments. The Getting of Wisdom The latter, rich, leisured, able to satisfy her caprices, surround her with luxury: himself, younger than she by several years, without prospects, with nothing to offer her but a limitless devotion. Maurice Guest It is cultured, leisured Europe before the war. Heartbreak House And with my heart's door open—open wide— With leisured feet, and idle hands, I sat. The Verse-Book of a Homely Woman With an hour at lunch and a few shattered hours in the evening, how was it possible to catch up with leisured women, who had been reading steadily from childhood? Howards End With an hour at lunch and a few shattered hours in the evening, how was it possible to catch up with leisured women, who had been reading steadily from childhood?� Howards End Now savages, as a rule, are all in the "leisured class," all sportsmen. Myth, Ritual and Religion — Volume 1 And though he did not precisely look at them, they in turn inspired in him the compassionate, morbid curiosity which persons who live desperate lives necessarily inspire in the leisured, speculative mind. Fraternity Still, my old self rose, reasoning: How can you, With strenuous work to do— Real slogging work—say, how can you keep pace With leisured folks? The Verse-Book of a Homely Woman There soon arose in this section of the colony a society marked by intellectual distinction, social graces, and the leisured dignity of the landlord and the large planter. The Conquest of the Old Southwest; the romantic story of the early pioneers into Virginia, the Carolinas, Tennessee, and Kentucky, 1740-1790 And what is the answer of this leisured class? The Angel and the Author, and others It justifies leisured classes and inherited wealth and privilege and endowments and all the other injustices of that sort. Crome Yellow Stroke by measured and leisured stroke, the old euphonious clangour pervaded Oxford, spreading out over the meadows, along the river, audible in Iffley. Zuleika Dobson, or, an Oxford love story "All right," said Basil, rising also and seating himself in a leisured way in an armchair. The Club of Queer Trades The crapulous leisured classes of Peking openly flaunt the worst of vices. New Forces in Old China An Inevitable Awakening The moment that the peasant forsakes his life of toil pure and simple for the leisured existence of the landowning classes, he becomes intolerable. The Country Doctor Fortunately, however, it is not the leisured and the cultured who have to pay. Crome Yellow If, on the other hand, Shakespear's characters are mostly members of the leisured classes, the same thing is true of Mr Harris's own plays and mine. Dark Lady of the Sonnets |
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