vacant hour
Example Sentences
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A vacant hour is always the devil's hour.
From Stray Thoughts for Girls by Lucy H. M. Soulsby
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
Oft would we leave, though well beloved, our play To chat at home the vacant hour away.
From The Poetical Works of Henry Kirk White : With a Memoir by Sir Harris Nicolas by Henry Kirk White
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
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
