Thesaurus / time on one's hands

time on one's hands

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It ended on a complaint that she was 'tired rather and spending my time at full length on a deck-chair in the garden.'

THE WAVEALGERNON BLACKWOOD

With a suffocating gasp, she fell back into the chair on which she sat, and covered her face with her hands.

The vision—it had been an instantaneous flash after all and nothing more—had left his mind completely for the time.

THE WAVEALGERNON BLACKWOOD

About this time the famous Philippine painter, Juan Luna (vide p. 195), was released after six monthsʼ imprisonment as a suspect.

I hate to be long at my toilette at any time; but to delay much in such a matter while travelling is folly.

She sat straight up in bed, and jerked her hands to her head, and screamed long and terribly.

He reached forward and took her hands, and if Mrs. Vivian had come in she would have seen him kneeling at her daughter's feet.

CONFIDENCEHENRY JAMES

Now, it immediately occurred to Davy that he had never in his whole life had all the plums he wanted at any one time.

Arches more graceful in form, or better fitted to defy the assaults of time, I have never seen.

In treble, second and fourth, the first change is a dodge behind; and the second time the treble leads, there's a double Bob.

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OCTOBER 26, 1985