vacant hour
Example Sentences
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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?
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
Or else he would have watched her classes and happened along by accident just as she was coming out for a vacant hour.
From Stanford Stories Tales of a Young University by Field, Charles K. (Charles Kellogg)
He who in harmless sport employs A vacant hour, is not unwise.
From Aesop, in Rhyme Old Friends in a New Dress by Park, Marmaduke
A vacant hour is always the devil's hour.
From Stray Thoughts for Girls by Soulsby, Lucy H. M.
