vacant hour
Example Sentences
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If no farther than to a point equivalent to our eleven o'clock, A.M., in what way is the vacant hour between that point and sexta, or noon, accounted for by Martial?
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 Grant Allen
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
He who in harmless sport employs A vacant hour, is not unwise.
From Aesop, in Rhyme Old Friends in a New Dress by Marmaduke Park
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
