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- verb Present participle of
ruralize .
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Examples
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Moreover, she was faithful to the Marquis, so wonderful a circumstance that her friend and admirer wrote an elegy upon that circumstance, in which he draws a picture of the pleasures of the ancients in ruralizing, but reproaches Ninon for indulging in a passion for so long a period to the detriment of her other friends and admirers.
Ninon de L'Enclos the Celebrated Beauty of the 17th Century Robinson, Charles Henry 1903
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Then there is his Excellency the "royal Chamberlain" -- a sinecure, for his majesty dresses himself with his own hands, except when he is ruralizing at Waikiki and then he requires no dressing.
Roughing It Mark Twain 1872
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Then there is his Excellency the "royal Chamberlain" -- a sinecure, for his majesty dresses himself with his own hands, except when he is ruralizing at Waikiki and then he requires no dressing.
Roughing It, Part 7. Mark Twain 1872
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Then there is his Excellency the "royal Chamberlain" -- a sinecure, for his majesty dresses himself with his own hands, except when he is ruralizing at Waikiki and then he requires no dressing.
Roughing It 1871
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Doubtless for a long time the exiled monarch, pensively ruralizing in
The Piazza Tales Herman Melville 1855
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'In fairy bowers by moonlight hours,' to convince one that instead of ruralizing in the country, you had gone
Rural Architecture Being a Complete Description of Farm Houses, Cottages, and Out Buildings Lewis Falley Allen 1845
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The place of refreshment for the ruralizing cockney of 1737 was a substantial-looking tenement of the good old stamp, with great bay windows, and a balcony in front, bearing as its ensign the jovial visage of the lusty knight, Jack
Rookwood William Harrison Ainsworth 1843
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In a week Edward Houstoun's friends had grown weary of ruralizing -- they found no longer any music in the crack of a fowling-piece, or any enjoyment in the dying agonies of the feathered tribes, and, having resisted all their persuasions to return with them, he was left alone.
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Wallis's nephew had several times invited me to pay him a visit at his uncle's house, at Crouchend; and so once, during the absence of that gentleman who was ruralizing at Tonbridge, I trudged down to his villa.
Sketches — Volume 05 Robert Seymour 1818
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Wallis's nephew had several times invited me to pay him a visit at his uncle's house, at Crouchend; and so once, during the absence of that gentleman who was ruralizing at Tonbridge, I trudged down to his villa.
Sketches — Complete Robert Seymour 1818
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