Born in 1901, her childhood was a happy idyll enough until World War One awakened her to reality. |
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But eighteen months, a storybook wedding and an adorable but accidental baby later, Kitty's life isn't the perfect idyll she thought it would be. |
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But in the weeks ahead the concept of Europe is going to be more than just a bureaucratic nightmare or a holiday idyll. |
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Now the proposals have been approved by planning officers and the final hurdle to the creation of their perfect rural idyll has been crossed. |
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Will the proposed financial and lifestyle benefits prove enough to tempt workers to a rural idyll? |
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The countryside idyll of my Cheshire birthplace is, sadly, the most boring place on earth. |
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The life of a bondager was no rural idyll, but one of long hours and hard work born with patient dignity. |
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Although my childhood holidays were spent mostly in rural Perthshire, I have come to view the bucolic idyll with suspicion. |
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Bring along a baguette and a bottle of vin blanc and join the judge for an idyll in the French countryside. |
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It is the only quarter of the imperial family's home open to the public and offers a little idyll in the chaos and concrete of Tokyo. |
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On the big screen, however, Oban has always been portrayed as a pastoral idyll. |
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Still the dominant phonetic presence is of light vowels and soft consonants, a bright but increasingly fragile idyll asking to be shattered. |
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Just like Rousseau, Finlay has created an art which sets the notion of the Arcadian idyll against mankind's extreme barbarity. |
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What kind of idyll was it that was supposed to emerge from this ugly, vindictive battle? |
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These signs were fixed at pedestrian crossings, junctions in residential roads and even on posts in the woodland idyll of Ham Common. |
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It was quite clear that the garden he was describing was an English idyll sprouting cow parsley, chestnut trees and long green grass. |
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He was just 40, and in this rural idyll he began to paint landscapes filled with lush, exuberant nature. |
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In his famous 17th century work, he wrote of the Arcadian idyll of the piscator, fishing the rivers of England for salmon. |
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If the first half of the novel is an idyll, the second half shifts to romance. |
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Each idyll is a society in the distant future or the remote past that can be held up as a noble alternative to American society. |
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Public entertainment can go ahead at the Barge Inn at Honeystreet despite some strenuous opposition from neighbours wanting to preserve their rural idyll. |
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The group's six serenely delicious Florentine properties and its Tuscan idyll will be joined by the much-anticipated Suites in Via Condotti, in Rome, this year. |
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Promoters of the California idyll have largely ignored the irony that the state boasts not only palm trees, blonde beaches and frolicsome youth, but also fog. |
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This section ranges across the central area of England, from the wilds of the Peak District via the industrialised Black Country to the idyll of the Cotswolds. |
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Its style directly refers to the Tyrol architecture, representing a world of pastoral jauntiness and rural idyll. |
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Switzerland's first nature experience park harbours many a secret: a genuine idyll, a wildlife park and even a few puzzles for researchers. |
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But this is not a long-lost idyll and I didn't need a time machine to transport me there. |
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For several years she lived in an Italian village, leading a simple life and cultivating a garden: an idyll familiar today. |
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An item will nonetheless compromise this romantic idyll and plunge this story in the most unbelievable cascade of new developments. |
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However, by clicking on them we are made aware of a more complex reality behind the idyll. |
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Peren spirits her viewers off to this holiday paradise to reveal the existent rifts in an apparent idyll, not for the sake of beautiful images. |
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We rediscover the idyll, the ideal couple at the start of the film is opening, even though we feel that the story has left its imprint. |
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So even if a group is composed exclusively of altruists, all behaving nicely towards each other, it only takes a single selfish mutant to bring an end to this happy idyll. |
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The verdant landscapes and the warm, sunny color palette enhance the sense of the story as an idyll, a brief golden interval amid the dark uncertainty of war. |
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A report has revealed that around half of people suffering from serious stress who quit towns and cities for a rural idyll end up more miserable than before. |
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Christa and John Hale visibly fill with pride as they describe how they have transformed their beloved Highland home from a dilapidated wreck into a rural idyll. |
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The notion of the South as a rural idyll begins with the Arcadian visions of artists such as Samuel Palmer and John Linnell, inspired by the Kent landscape. |
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Manono is a car-free, sandy-bayed idyll, where school children saunter with their satchels under swaying palm trees, wandering the round-island footpath. |
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The Rambagh seems to effortlessly have the sense of a refuge and idyll that luxury hotels the world over try so hard to conjure. |
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Set in a castle in the Italian town of Montale, the novel is mostly something of a sunburnt idyll by the pool. |
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Some highlights from the research shows that those firms looking beyond Dublin to get out of the traffic jams may not fare any better by chasing the rural idyll. |
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The story, which Sheila narrates, begins as a soft-focus romantic idyll. |
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Learning to write is not an easy task and certainly no idyll. |
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Some social workers think that the presence of a team is more important during the disillusion phase than during the idyll phase when the passionate nature of the meeting keeps them at a distance. |
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And indeed, after a year, the idyll had turned into a nightmare. |
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It is possible to think the story is not realist because a romantic idyll between an Indian and a fair-haired and sophisticated girl in 1850 was not possible. |
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Just short of 10,000 inhabitants live in this green idyll that offers a wealth of opportunities for leisure and relaxation as well as an excellent infrastructure. |
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Derek Jarman's A Journey to Avebury is a film showing a pastoral idyll of cows and fields, filmed on a jerking camera in a yellowy light. |
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The once semi-rural idyll of suburbia might have faded under the weight of hollowed-out high streets and the urban ethnic mix but suburbia is a resilient place and all the better for its modern diversity. |
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These days, you're likely to get flatscreen TVs and chocolate truffles along with the uninterrupted views and peaceful idyll which a farmhouse location traditionally affords. |
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