leisure

-- 'And surely,' he continues, 'if the purpose be in good earnest, _not to write at leisure that which men may read at leisure_' -- note it -- that which men may read at leisure -- 'but really to

The Philosophy of the Plays of Shakspere Unfolded Delia Bacon 1835

On all sides they trip along, buoyed up by animal spirits, and seemingly so void of care that often, when I am walking on the Boulevards, it occurs to me that they alone understand the full import of the term leisure; and they trifle their time away with such an air of contentment, I know not how to wish them wiser at the expense of gayety.

Mary Wollstonecraft Elizabeth Robins Pennell 1895

On all sides they trip along, buoyed up by animal spirits, and seemingly so void of care, that often, when I am walking on the _Boulevards_, it occurs to me, that they alone understand the full import of the term leisure; and they trifle their time away with such an air of contentment, I know not how to wish them wiser at the expence of their gaiety.

Posthumous Works of the Author of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman Mary Wollstonecraft 1778

After his retirement from business, Franklin enjoyed seven years of what he called leisure, but they were years of study and application; years of happiness and sweet content, but years of aspiration and an earnest looking into the future.

Little Journeys To the Homes of the Great Hubbard, Elbert, 1856-1915 1916

After his retirement from business, Franklin enjoyed seven years of what he called leisure, but they were years of study and application; years of happiness and sweet content, but years of aspiration and an earnest looking into the future.

Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 03 Little Journeys to the Homes of American Statesmen Elbert Hubbard 1885

Bejing - BAY-jing (there is no sounds such as found in 'leisure' in Chinese)

Archive 2007-11-18 Newmania 2007

Bejing - BAY-jing (there is no sounds such as found in 'leisure' in Chinese)

Speak Proppa Newmania 2007

In that light, the performance of France (and of the European Union in general) does not look so bad: A much higher rate of growth of productivity than the U.S., and, as one might expect given that leisure is a normal good, the allocation of part of that increase to increased income, and part to increased leisure.

The European Outlook, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009

To sin in haste and repent at leisure is not a privilege available to the public servant.

At long last, it's recall day (Jack Bog's Blog) 2009

To make hippocras: Take a gallon of claret of white wine, and put therein four ounces of ginger, an ounce and a half of nutmegs, of cloves one quarter, of sugar four pound; let all this stand together in a pot at least twelve hours, then take it, and put it into a clean bag made for the purpose, so that the wine may come with good leisure from the spices.

hippocras « paper fruit 2009