There was some idle talk, a listless discussion of this or that small happening during the day's drive.

When abbots dined in their own private hall, the Rule of St Benedict charged them to invite their monks to their table, provided there was room, on which occasions the guests were to abstain from quarrels, slanderous talk and idle gossiping.

This was not an idle concern for Hume.

The word ' hockey ' itself was recorded in 1363 when Edward III of England issued the proclamation: " oreover we ordain that you prohibit under penalty of imprisonment all and sundry from such stone, wood and iron throwing ; handball, football, or hockey ; coursing and cock-fighting, or other such idle games.

It was no idle vision, for after three days the acute pain of his injury brought his end.

He delighted in the folklore of this remote district, and became, as he himself tells us, a ‘ tale-teller .’ The ‘ applause of my companions ,’ he says, ‘ was my recompense for punishments incurred for being idle .’ These conditions developed a love of poetry and the composition of verses and ballads.

If any one of the sides makes the bung reach that end of the churchyard it is victorious .” The actual word hockey was mentioned centuries before, in 1363, when King Edward III of England issued a declaration banning a list of games: " moreover we ordain that you prohibit under penalty of imprisonment all and sundry from such stone, wood and iron throwing ; handball, football, or hockey ; coursing and cock-fighting, or other such idle games.

Jeroboam's reign was also the period of the prophets Hosea, Joel, Jonah and Amos, all of whom condemned the materialism and selfishness of the Israelite elite of their day: " Woe unto those who lie upon beds of ivory ... eat lambs from the flock and calves ... sing idle songs ..." The book of Kings, written a century later condemns Jeroboam for doing " evil in the eyes of the Lord ", meaning both the oppression of the poor and his continuing support of the cult centres of Dan and Bethel, in opposition to the temple in Jerusalem.

Nicholas Balabkins concludes that " as long as German industrial capacity was kept idle the economic recovery of Europe was delayed " and that " To nurse Europe back to economic health the Marshall Plan scrapped the early postwar economic chains of Germany.

Mehmed III was an idle ruler, leaving government to his mother Safiye Sultan, the valide sultan.

After starting the engine with a known setting that allowed it to idle, the air valve was opened until maximum engine speed was obtained.

Dozens of public buses stood idle for months, severely damaging the bus transit company's finances, until the city repealed its law requiring segregation on public buses following the US Supreme Court ruling that it was unconstitutional.

The game was left briefly idle until the publication of GURPS Traveller.

This was because users might have long periods of entering code while the computer remained idle.

NULL / BLANK was used as an idle code for when no messages were being sent.

This was called the idle condition, and the plate current at this point the " idle current ".

As a result of this approach the ZX80 could only generate a picture when it was idle, i. e. waiting for a key to be pressed.

Multiplexing multiple telecommunications connections over the same physical conductor has been possible for a long time, but nonetheless each channel on the multiplexed link was either dedicated to one call at a time, or it was idle between calls.

The link principle was more efficient, but required a more complex control system to find idle links through the switching fabric.

The colonial use of traditional law and structures of power was thus an integral part of the process of colonial domination ( Young 1994 ; Penvenne 1995 ; O ' Laughlin 2000 ) obsessed with the maximization of economic development and growth through the use of idle or unproductive African workforce.

From actions aboard, it is easy to guess that Spencer's boast of twenty staunch followers was a modest estimate ''.

In some versions of the story of Adonis, who was a late addition to Greek mythology during the Hellenistic period, Artemis sent a wild boar to kill Adonis as punishment for his hubristic boast that he was a better hunter than she.

The album title Surfing with Bo Diddley was a boast about his influence on surf guitarists.

The reference to the Jewish " boast ", and, indeed, the strident anti-Jewish tone of the whole passage, suggests another issue: some Christians thought that it was undignified for Christians to depend on Jews to set the date of a Christian festival.

The Ich bin ein Berliner speech is in part derived from a speech Kennedy gave at a Civic Reception on May 4, 1962, in New Orleans ; there also he used the phrase civis Romanus sum by saying " Two thousand years ago the proudest boast was to say, " I am a citizen of Rome.

By 3 May, he was able to boast in his diary: " We are the masters of Germany.

Yusuf Ali ’ s translation reads " That they said ( in boast ), " We killed Christ Jesus the son of Mary, the Messenger of Allah ";― but they killed him not, nor crucified him, but so it was made to appear to them and those who differ therein are full of doubts, with no ( certain ) knowledge, but only conjecture to follow, for of a surety they killed him not .― ( 157 ) Nay, Allah raised him up unto Himself ; and Allah is Exalted in Power, Wise.

Truth is widely believed to have had five children, with one sold away, and was never known to boast more children.

His childhood was marked by the musical life provided by his mother and aunt: Maria was a singer who could boast of having performed in Vienna at the Imperial Court, while her sister, Agathe, who lived with them, had made a name for herself as both a singer and pianist.

The Seven Years ' War might well, moreover, have been another Thirty Years ' War if Pitt had not furnished Frederick with an annual subsidy of £ 700, 000, and in addition relieved him of the task of defending western Germany against France: this was the policy that allowed Pitt to boast of having ' won Canada on the banks of the Rhine '.

Mycenae was briefly reoccupied in the Hellenistic period, when it could boast a theatre.

" One local boasted to a journalist that “ Ramallah is becoming the de facto capital of Palestine .” This boast was seconded by the New York Times which, in 2010, called Ramallah the " de facto capital of the West Bank.

The Talmud stresses the thrasonical Goliath's ungodliness: his taunts before the Israelites included the boast that it was he who had captured the Ark of the Covenant and brought it to the temple of Dagon ; and his challenges to combat were made at morning and evening in order to disturb the Israelites in their prayers.

The total number of captures by French and Spanish corsairs was in all probability larger than the list of British – as the French wit Voltaire drolly put it upon hearing his government's boast, namely, that more British merchants were taken because there were many more British merchant ships to take ; but partly also because the British government had not yet begun to enforce the use of convoy so strictly as it did in later times.

It gave Hitler's international reputation an important boost for two reasons: one, he was able to play the part of a man of reason and compromise ; and two, he could boast that his predictions that Great Britain and France would not respond with war had proven to be correct.

In consequence, a large service sector was established to serve the growing population, and in the first decades of the 20th century, Campinas could already boast of an opera house, theaters, banks, movie theaters, radio stations, a philharmonic orchestra, two newspapers ( Correio Popular and Diário do Povo ), a good public education system ( with the Escola Normal de Campinas and the Colégio Culto à Ciência ), and hospitals, such as the Santa Casa de Misericórdia ( a charity for poor people ) and the Casa de Saúde de Campinas ( for the Italian community, formely known as Circolo Italiani Uniti ), and the most important Brazilian research center in agricultural sciences, the Instituto Agronômico de Campinas, which was founded by Emperor Pedro II.

In 1218 – 1220 Genoa was served by the Guelph podestà Rambertino Buvalelli, who probably introduced Occitan literature to the city, which was soon to boast such troubadours as Jacme Grils, Lanfranc Cigala, and Bonifaci Calvo.

Hippias was a man of very extensive knowledge, and he occupied himself not only with rhetorical, philosophical, and political studies, but was also well versed in poetry, music, mathematics, painting and sculpture, and he claimed some practical skill in the ordinary arts of life, for he used to boast of wearing on his body nothing that he had not made himself with his own hands, such as his seal-ring, his cloak, and shoes.

When the king heard of this boast from his companions, he was very angry and imprisoned Elphin.

The pony herd was the one flaw in our defense ; ;

His face was split by a vermilion streak, his eyes were pools of white ; ;

And there was a house ; ;

The town was about what Wilson expected: one main street with its rows of false-fronted buildings, a water tower, a few warehouses, a single hotel ; ;

Such was my state of mind that I did not question the possibility of this ; ;

It was dark and, I sensed, very large ; ;

He was a man in his late forties, with graying hair, of medium height ; ;

He had looked over my forms and was impressed by what he had seen there ; ;

In his mood, it was the best way to handle him ; ;

This, he was sure, was the way they would act ; ;

His aim was hurried ; ;

At once my ears were drowned by a flow of what I took to be Spanish, but -- the driver's white teeth flashing at me, the road wildly veering beyond his glistening hair, beyond his gesticulating bottle -- it could have been the purest Oxford English I was half hearing ; ;