vacant hour

Example Sentences

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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

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

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 Rossetti, Christina Georgina

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

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.]