vacant hour
Example Sentences
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Raeburn, Runciman, and Ferguson the poet were of the society, and it was with such as these that Brodie might have wasted his vacant hour.
From A Book of Scoundrels by Charles Whibley
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 Sir Richard Francis Burton
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 George Birkbeck Norman Hill
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 Christopher Morley
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 Christina Georgina Rossetti
