1 Beth kept on, with only slight relapses into idleness or grieving.
2 It's against the rules to be idle here, replied Meg gravely but graciously.
3 "Yes, I should think so," and Laurie thought regretfully of his own idle days.
4 We don't mean to say much about them yet, because we are such very new brooms, but we don't intend to be idle.
5 Don't grieve and fret when I am gone, or think that you can be idle and comfort yourselves by being idle and trying to forget.
6 Long, quiet days she spent, not lonely nor idle, for her little world was peopled with imaginary friends, and she was by nature a busy bee.
7 So after idling away an hour, they drove home again, and having paid his respects to Mrs. Carrol, Laurie left them, promising to return in the evening.
8 It was excellent drill for their memories, a harmless amusement, and employed many hours which otherwise would have been idle, lonely, or spent in less profitable society.
9 The days kept getting longer and longer, the weather was unusually variable and so were tempers; an unsettled feeling possessed everyone, and Satan found plenty of mischief for the idle hands to do.
10 At Vevay, Laurie was never idle, but always walking, riding, boating, or studying in the most energetic manner, while Amy admired everything he did and followed his example as far and as fast as she could.
11 He helped her in many ways, proving himself a true friend, and Jo was happy, for while her pen lay idle, she was learning other lessons besides German, and laying a foundation for the sensation story of her own life.