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I tell you, they had to stand to their tackle: there was no idle man aboard that ship, God knows.
The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson, Volume XXI | Robert Louis StevensonHe likes being in office because it gives him something to do; but he would never be an idle man.
The Prime Minister | Anthony TrollopeNot that he was an idle man, but that he would not work at his oars in the only approved method of making progress for his boat.
Orley Farm | Anthony Trollope
Was I fancying myself a poet, only because I was an idle man, and had lost the woman I loved?
In the Days of My Youth | Amelia Ann Blandford EdwardsThen I might have been fit for the plaything of an idle man, but that time is past.
A Tatter of Scarlet | S. R. Crockett
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