Baseball and the beach, picnics and idle afternoons are predicated on mobile, hand-held meals, meals of infinite variety as well as reassuring familiarity.

She thought of the days she had hidden there, spying on Simon as he daydreamed through idle afternoons in the bell chamber.

Once, in an idle afternoon when the feeling of uselessness which had lately beset me was particularly strong, I went out to Highgate and walked past the house.

An idle, rainy afternoon, with nothing else to do but seek shelter from the rain.

A 720-kilobit file that had taken less than three minutes to download one idle afternoon took more than six on a busy evening.

He wanted to spend part of his idle afternoon discovering what lay behind those intriguing facades, and so did a few of his passengers.

Keman thought it was rather pretty, as attractive as some of his mother's fabric collection, and sometimes spent an idle afternoon laying out patterns with the smaller scraps.

Clemens had been urged to consult her, and one idle afternoon concluded to make the experiment.

Some sat and dangled their feet in the water as if they were contemplating nothing more serious than an idle afternoon.

Artists set up their easels there, too, and fishermen spent idle afternoons on the riverbank and waded in the shallows at dusk.