vacant hour

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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.]

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 Morley, Christopher

“In my next vacant hour, following the one devoted to Lafelle, I want to see Reverend Darius Borwell,” he directed.

From Carmen Ariza by Stocking, Charles Francis

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

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