vacant hour
Example Sentences
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These speculations, instead of being treated as the amusement of a vacant hour, became the most serious business of the present, and the most useful preparation for a future, life.
From History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 2 by Henry Hart Milman
Is the true end of poetry to occupy a vacant hour?
From The History of Roman Literature From the earliest period to the death of Marcus Aurelius by Charles Thomas Cruttwell
Or else he would have watched her classes and happened along by accident just as she was coming out for a vacant hour.
From Stanford Stories Tales of a Young University by Charles K. (Charles Kellogg) Field
He loitering pass'd the vacant hour, For Strawberries stoop'd, or pluck'd a Flower, And snuff'd the Zephyrs as they play'd, In wanton curves beneath the shade.
From An Essay on War, in Blank Verse; Honington Green, a Ballad; the Culprit, an Elegy; and Other Poems, on Various Subjects by Nathaniel Bloomfield
It is a psychological fact well known to housekeepers that there is a vacant hour in the middle of the afternoon when Satan sometimes finds a joint in the protective armour of the domestic servant.
From Kathleen by Christopher Morley
