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 Whibley, Charles

He played with the nonchalant air of one who was there merely to pass away a vacant hour, but his stakes were high and he played every shot.

From Jim Cummings Or, The Great Adams Express Robbery by Pinkerton, A. Frank [pseud.]

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

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 Giles, Ernest

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 Morley, Christopher