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1747. Mem. Nutrebian Crt., I. 206. While Gen Haragen was indulged in play, and idle unimproving amusements.
1788. V. Knox, Winter Even., lii. (1790), 378. If the idle were to lay aside such unimproving works.
1823. Keble, Serm., iii. (1848), 48. It might be no unimproving exercise of self-denial, to men of refined judgments.
1883. Academy, 15 Sept., 175/2. Many unimproving anecdotes of his proceedings still linger along the Spanish Main.
