Ruralising

La Signora Ristoni10 absolutely blushed at the fineness of the speech I made to her in your name; she is well, and very happy; now she is off to her Villa and podere, where she will remain ruralising for a couple of months; she desired me to say fifty kind things to you, but I forgot every one of them. ❋ Unknown (2007)

His favourite places for ruralising were Mödling, Döbling, Hentzendorf, and Baden; while there is still cherished in the royal garden of Schönbrunn a favourite spot, between two ash-trees, where the master is reputed to have composed some of the music of "Fidelio." ❋ Walter Rowlands (N/A)

Moore had been ruralising for a year at Slopperton Cottage, and, before his arrival, D'Israeli expressed his regret that he should have been met on his return to town with a savage article in ❋ Paston, George, D. 1936 (1902)

Of these one had sickened and wasted, being, as it was said, himself the only patient whom he had treated during his eighteen months of ruralising. ❋ Unknown (1894)

I should have written to you by them: but I only just now found your letter on the mantelpiece: there it has lain some days during which I have been ruralising in Bedfordshire. ❋ Edward FitzGerald (1846)

(urbal is a contraction of urban + rural, i.e. ruralising urbanity, instead of 'rurban' which is the influence of cities on the rural) ❋ Unknown (2010)