vacant hour

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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

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.

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?

From Notes and Queries, Vol. IV, Number 102, October 11, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. by Various

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