vacant hour

Example Sentences

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Oft would we leave, though well beloved, our play To chat at home the vacant hour away.

From The Poetical Works of Henry Kirk White : With a Memoir by Sir Harris Nicolas by White, Henry Kirk

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)

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

Then the Wazir continued addressing the two men, "Wend your ways at this time and on the morrow be present here at early morn and let it be at a vacant hour."

From The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 14 by Burton, Richard Francis, Sir

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