vacant hour
Example Sentences
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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
A vacant hour is always the devil's hour.
From Stray Thoughts for Girls by Lucy H. M. Soulsby
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
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 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
