vacant hour

Example Sentences

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“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

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

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

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)

Is the true end of poetry to occupy a vacant hour?

From The History of Roman Literature From the earliest period to the death of Marcus Aurelius by Cruttwell, Charles Thomas