vacant hour

Example Sentences

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You do not always find a successful Q.C. at his ease among his books, beneath the electric light, ready to give up a vacant hour to friendly colloquy.

From Hilda Wade, a Woman with Tenacity of Purpose by Allen, Grant

A vacant hour is always the devil's hour.

From Stray Thoughts for Girls by Soulsby, Lucy H. M.

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 Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield

Some hug their business, some their pleasure-scheme; Some seize the vacant hour to sleep or dream; Heart locked in heart some kneel and watch apart.

From Goblin Market, The Prince's Progress, and Other Poems by Rossetti, Christina Georgina

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 Burton, Richard Francis, Sir