rusticating

Often the offenders engaged board a few miles from Chapel Hill and had a jolly time "rusticating," reading novels, hunting or fishing.

History of the University of North Carolina. Volume I: From its Beginning to the Death of President Swain, 1789-1868 Kemp Plummer 1907

“I happened to be rusticating in a small Scottish village in a nearby harbor.”

Much Ado About Marriage Karen Hawkins 2010

“I happened to be rusticating in a small Scottish village in a nearby harbor.”

Much Ado About Marriage Karen Hawkins 2010

“I happened to be rusticating in a small Scottish village in a nearby harbor.”

Much Ado About Marriage Karen Hawkins 2010

The story line is driven by the small-town reluctance to share anything with the outsider, a big city reporter who is rusticating in their minds.

The Covenant-John Everson « The Merry Genre Go Round Reviews 2008

While he was off rusticating in the country, it was left to Penelope and his supporters to keep his cause alive with Elizabeth.

Archive 2009-04-01 Elizabeth Kerri Mahon 2009

They choose to remain here and stop fighting in order to live out the remainder of their lives rusticating in harmony and peace.

Orcs: Bad Blood-Stan Nicholls « The Merry Genre Go Round Reviews 2009

Their "modern" style of landscape gardening was all about improving on what nature should have been, rusticating things and making the views look more natural than natural.

Archive 2007-07-01 Heather McDougal 2007

Their "modern" style of landscape gardening was all about improving on what nature should have been, rusticating things and making the views look more natural than natural.

Genius Loci: the Spirits of Place Heather McDougal 2007

Retired cloth-merchants and rusticating attorneys had not discovered it as yet; it was a peaceful and charming place, which was not on the road to anywhere: there people lived, and cheaply, that peasant rustic life which is so bounteous and so easy; only, water was rare there, on account of the elevation of the plateau.

Les Miserables 2008