toillessadj.

1606 J. Sylvester tr. G. de S. Du Bartas Deuine Weekes & Wks. (new ed.) ii. iv. 59 There smiles the Ground, the starry Flowers each one There mount the more, the more th' are trod vpon: There, all growes toil-les.

1795 R. Clarke Coll. Poems & Lett. 9 Why fish, prolific, rivers share, and seas, Ranging at large quite toilless and at ease?

1848 P. J. Bailey Festus (ed. 3) 207 Earth's luxurious toilless tribes, Followed, with each their hands full of good things.

1894 Sc. Leader 4 Jan. 3 And soar o'er life, and toilless comprehend Of flowers and all things dumb the silent speed.

1902 Automobile Topics 15 Feb. 675 Had you thought of the automobile only as the plaything of the rich—as the visible mark of a toilless aristocracy?

2004 Sunday Age (Melbourne) (Nexis) 1 Feb. 13 A wealth of non-career choices..shall entice the toil-less masses.

a1660 in T. Powell Humane Industry (1661) ii. 21 The untired strength of never-ceasing motion, A restless rest a toyl-less operation.

1750 tr. Virgil Georgics 16 Streams gusht with wine, no longer, as before, And toil-less plenty, bless'd the world, no more!

1884 Current 2 Aug. 65/2 They find, helpless, suffering, beggared, an old servant, whose declining years should be spent toilless and care-free.

1931 Sci. Monthly July 47/2 The fat and flabby life of the parasite, the toilless existence of the tapeworm, fascinates us.

2006 Xinhua Gen. News Service (Nexis) 27 Nov. Palestine is previously scheduled to play Hong Kong,..and its withdrawal has given a toilless victory to the latter.

1877 A. Ransom tr. T. Keim Hist. Jesus of Nazara III. i. 134 In those utterances he paints the birds of the air in the toillessness [Ger. Werklosigkeit] and freedom from care with which the great good Creator has favoured them.

1902 Granite State Monthly July 32/1 The loading, the driving to the barn, and the unloading—all more or less suggestive of toil and yet of toillessness in the mind of the lusty, farm boy.

1994 D. C. Aune in W. E. Helleman Hellenization Revisited 136 The freedom from external forces contrary to nature, and the accompanying experience of aponia ('toil-lessness' or lack of pain).