vacant hour

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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?

From Notes and Queries, Vol. IV, Number 102, October 11, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. by Various

If my narrative has no other recommendation, it may at least serve to while away a vacant hour, and remind my readers of something better, they have read before.

From Australia Twice Traversed, Illustrated, by Giles, Ernest

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

Cowper, whose temperament was in some respects not unlike Johnson's, wrote:—'A vacant hour is my abhorrence; because, when I am not occupied, I suffer under the whole influence of my unhappy temperament.'

From Life of Johnson, Volume 1 1709-1765 by Hill, George Birkbeck Norman

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