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1731. A. Hill, Adv. Poets, Ep. p. xiv. I am so devoted a Lover of a private, and unbusy Life.
1747. Richardson, Clarissa (1871), I. xviii. 132. [She] continued looking into a drawer among laces and linen in a way neither busy, nor unbusy.
1827. Coleridge, Work without Hope, 5. All Nature seems at work,… And I, the while, the sole unbusy thing.
1852. Meanderings of Mem., I. 196. If bigotted, or most unbusy herd, O’er stocked with time and talent, were preferred.
