vacant hour
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
He who in harmless sport employs A vacant hour, is not unwise.
From Aesop, in Rhyme Old Friends in a New Dress by Marmaduke Park
A vacant hour is always the devil's hour.
From Stray Thoughts for Girls by Lucy H. M. Soulsby
Oft would we leave, though well beloved, our play To chat at home the vacant hour away.
From The Poetical Works of Henry Kirk White : With a Memoir by Sir Harris Nicolas by Henry Kirk White
Raeburn, Runciman, and Ferguson the poet were of the society, and it was with such as these that Brodie might have wasted his vacant hour.
From A Book of Scoundrels by Charles Whibley
He played with the nonchalant air of one who was there merely to pass away a vacant hour, but his stakes were high and he played every shot.
From Jim Cummings Or, The Great Adams Express Robbery by A. Frank [pseud.] Pinkerton
