idle hours

These drawings probably employed the idle hours of the hunter, and hand down to us the scenes which he witnessed in the chase.

The King dead—and the Prince a slave to love—to the idle hours of an unprofitable love!

Thenceforth, when business was dull, the idle hours of both men were beguiled with idle gossip.

He began meditating how he could put in the idle hours until the General should return in the evening.

If he seemed such in the idle hours, on parade he was the beau ideal of a cuirassier.