On the steps of the bank some idle boys were sitting, telling disgusting stories because there was nothing else to do.

I never did--I know he's your cousin, but he's an idle boy.

There once lived a poor tailor, who had a son called Aladdin, a careless, idle boy who would do nothing but play all day long in the streets with little idle boys like himself.

For fiery-short was Cyril's counter-scoff, And sharp I answered, touched upon the point Where idle boys are cowards to their shame, 'Decide it here: why not?

The good Lord knows I've got things to keep an idle boy busy with.

In a few minutes a group of idle boys had assembled, and Diamond found himself in a very uncomfortable position.

Edgar Allan Poe wrote in his poem, "Romance," that he had been "an idle boy ... Who read Anacreon, and drank wine."

I remember a very idle little boy who was busy with the 'Three Musketeers' when he should have been occupied with 'Wilkins's Latin Prose.

The usually idle boy then figured out for himself that Heller's early education had been neglected.

She becomes infuriated with Cocoanut, telling him he is "a silly idle useless unmanly little boy."