vacant hour
Example Sentences
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Some hug their business, some their pleasure-scheme; Some seize the vacant hour to sleep or dream; Heart locked in heart some kneel and watch apart.
From Goblin Market, The Prince's Progress, and Other Poems by Rossetti, Christina Georgina
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
A vacant hour is always the devil's hour.
From Stray Thoughts for Girls by Soulsby, Lucy H. M.
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
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?
