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
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
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?
It fills a vacant hour for leisurely people, it gives agreeable distraction, it furnishes some pleasant dreams.
From The Altar Fire by Benson, Arthur Christopher
Folk-tales were diverting, so they found their way into print, and were issued as curious literary matter fitted to supply diversion for a vacant hour.
From Folk-lore and Legends: German by Anonymous
