vacant hour
Example Sentences
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A vacant hour is always the devil's hour.
From Stray Thoughts for Girls by Lucy H. M. Soulsby
It fills a vacant hour for leisurely people, it gives agreeable distraction, it furnishes some pleasant dreams.
From The Altar Fire by Arthur Christopher Benson
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 Charles Thomas Cruttwell
If my narrative has no other recommendation, it may at least serve to while away a vacant hour, and remind my readers of something better, they have read before.
From Australia Twice Traversed, Illustrated, by Ernest Giles
Folk-tales were diverting, so they found their way into print, and were issued as curious literary matter fitted to supply diversion for a vacant hour.
From Folk-lore and Legends: German by Anonymous
