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  • noun Plural form of idyll.

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Examples

  • People have been giving the finger to the farm life since the first recorded scribbles of human history, and writing agrarian idylls from a nostalgic distance.

    Matthew Yglesias » Endgame 2010

  • With books like The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and Life on the Mississippi, Twain explored many of the seemingly carefree idylls of the typical American boy's life.

    Jacques Lamarre: Norman Rockwell and Mark Twain: Two of a Kind Jacques Lamarre 2011

  • Iceland's political landscape was closer to a Third World setting than the Nordic idylls.

    2011: E.U. Countries--States Of Corruption Reuven Brenner 2011

  • Entranced by the extraordinary, fragile life cycle of the large blue butterfly or by the "long wounded squawk" of cricketer Dominic Cork, two writers retraced idylls of childhood.

    Readers recommend their favourite books of 2010 2011

  • Advances in industry produced the train line that transported many of the artists from London as well as an industrial nouveau riche willing to splash out on images of pre-industrial idylls.

    This week's new exhibitions 2011

  • With books like The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and Life on the Mississippi, Twain explored many of the seemingly carefree idylls of the typical American boy's life.

    Jacques Lamarre: Norman Rockwell and Mark Twain: Two of a Kind Jacques Lamarre 2011

  • With books like The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and Life on the Mississippi, Twain explored many of the seemingly carefree idylls of the typical American boy's life.

    Jacques Lamarre: Norman Rockwell and Mark Twain: Two of a Kind Jacques Lamarre 2011

  • A nod to Robert Frost's paean to youthful innocence Nothing Gold Can Stay, Stay Gold bristles with naive optimism – all shimmering guitars and declamatory idylls.

    This week's new singles 2011

  • With books like The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and Life on the Mississippi, Twain explored many of the seemingly carefree idylls of the typical American boy's life.

    Jacques Lamarre: Norman Rockwell and Mark Twain: Two of a Kind Jacques Lamarre 2011

  • The pictorial models were the landscapes of Salvator Rosa, nicknamed "Savage Rosa" by the poet James Thomson; the "majestic" scenes of Poussin and the idylls of Claude.

    A passion for painting in the Lake District 2011

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