vacant hour

Example Sentences

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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

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 Whibley, Charles

He played with the nonchalant air of one who was there merely to pass away a vacant hour, but his stakes were high and he played every shot.

From Jim Cummings Or, The Great Adams Express Robbery by Pinkerton, A. Frank [pseud.]

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 Field, Charles K. (Charles Kellogg)

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 Milman, Henry Hart