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Careless idle words, spoken jestingly, but every one of which went home like a barbed arrow to the mother's heart.
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The attack was indiscriminate; spies were employed, and idle words of obscure persons were made grounds of indictment.
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I wondered at the words he spake, but I knew that his were no idle words.
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I am no sour churl to take offence at the idle words of a foolish boy.
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Her keen feminine instinct told her that his simple "I love you" were not the idle words she pretended to think them.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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