idyll
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And despite Baltimore’s many private schools, not a few Idyll families send their kids to the city’s magnet high schools.
From Slate • May 4, 2015
And if things really do start to get better for the city, for the whole city, so that the Idyll dissolves into a more general prosperity—oh, how we will cheer that loss.
From Slate • May 4, 2015
A version of this review appears in print on April 4, 2014, on page C8 of the with the headline: An Island Idyll Turns Sinister .
From New York Times • Apr. 3, 2014
Idyll turned swiftly to inferno as the Industrial Revolution's "dark Satanic mills" burst from the ground, before those same mills forged the last of five giant rings that interlocked and were carried aloft by balloons.
From Reuters • Jul. 28, 2012
The latter passage is, however, more directly based upon one in the Idyll of Bion on Adonis.
From Life of John Keats by Rossetti, William Michael
Vocabulary lists containing idyll
Poetry: Genres
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Reading: Literature - Poetry - High School
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The Picture of Dorian Gray
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