leasure

Example Sentences

• "To Scriptures read they muſt their leaſure frame, / Then loath they will both luſt and wanton love; […]"
• "Her garments all were wrought of beaten gold, / And all her ſteed with tinſell trappings ſhone, / Which fledd ſo faſt, that nothing mote him hold, / And ſcarſe them leaſure gaue, her paſſing to behold."
• "And ſurely if the purpoſe be in good earneſt not to vvrite at leaſure that vvhich mẽ [men] may read at leaſure, but really to inſtruct and ſuborne Action and actiue life, theſe Georgickes of the mind concerning the huſbãdry & tillage thereof, are no leſſe vvorthy thẽ the heroical deſcriptiõs of vertue, duty, & felicity vvherfore the maine & primitiue diuiſion of Morall knovvledge ſeemeth to be into the Exemplar or Platforme of Good, and the Regiment or Culture of the mind; […]"
• "When Cato Utican, in vacation times, and at his beſt leaſure, went to recreate himſelf in the country, he uſed to cary with him the beſt Philoſophers, and choiſeſt bookes."