vacant hour
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It fills a vacant hour for leisurely people, it gives agreeable distraction, it furnishes some pleasant dreams.
From The Altar Fire by Arthur Christopher Benson
As for buffoons and artists, to amuse a vacant hour or sketch a vacant face, we must frankly tell you at once that there is not one.
From The Young Duke by Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield
Then the Wazir continued addressing the two men, "Wend your ways at this time and on the morrow be present here at early morn and let it be at a vacant hour."
From The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 14 by Sir Richard Francis Burton
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
“In my next vacant hour, following the one devoted to Lafelle, I want to see Reverend Darius Borwell,” he directed.
From Carmen Ariza by Charles Francis Stocking
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