Peaceful, rustic scene

Usage examples of idyll.

Entertaining feelings of gratitude for my kind host, and disposed to listen attentively to his poem, I dismissed all sadness, and I paid his poetry such compliments that he was delighted, and, finding me much more talented than he had judged me to be at first, he insisted upon treating me to a reading of his idylls, and I had to swallow them, bearing the infliction cheerfully.

The betrothal had been, so to speak, an outdoor idyll, but the cold season and married life make of Masha a stay-at-home, without a responsibility of her own, since the household runs like a clock under the strict supervision of her mother-in-law.

Maryville Anxious to preserve the mood of their brief idyll, John Wood had put off telling Maria about the bees in Maryville.

On it I composed an idyll which I cannot read, even now, without feeling tears in my eyes.

Idylls of the King is a fairly typical Victorian bowdlerization that accepted the prevailing attitude of the time that Le Morte darthur was little more than 'bold bawdry and open manslaughter'.

Sylvan idyll at nightfall, still-life with deranged dot-com refugee and brown office furniture.

His galaxy had been saved, and Honeybloom would live happily in her Stone Age idyll, and Tsopi the Polarian in her circular one.

Queen Victoria had a resident poet, Alfred Lord Tennyson, and he cleaned up Malory for his queen to produce a work he called Idylls of the King.

I walked to the table and saw that someone had turned Idylls of the King to a new page.

However, it soon develops that Galen isn't quite the middle American idyll it seems to be: tragedies are shrugged off by the population, some of the local dogs can speak, and a weird kind of predestination appears to rule everyday life.

Their idyll was ended by the whine of approaching outboard motors.