Long ago he had ceased to look for the reappearance at the shop of Bertha Cross; he thought of the girl now and then, generally reverting in memory to that day when he had followed her and her mother into Kew Gardens-a recollection which had lost all painfulness, and shone idyllically in summer sunlight, but it mattered nothing to him that Bertha showed herself no more.
"Will Warburton"
George Gissing
There is no reason to suppose that the close relation subsisting in the old days between the master and his journeymen and apprentices was as a rule idyllically beautiful.
"Problems of Poverty"
John A. Hobson
The group he looked at was as idyllically peaceful as wayfarers might be after the heat and burden of the day.
"The Emigrant Trail"
Geraldine Bonner