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Sentences ending with leisure

Write me whenever you have leisure. [7]
At three o'clock word was sent in that Mr. Austen Vane was outside, and wished to speak with his father as soon as the latter was at leisure. [9]
There exists already, what could not be said to exist a quarter of a century ago, a class who have leisure. [4]
Mrs. Clemens and the others remained in Heidelberg, to follow at their leisure. [5]
He did not swallow it at once, neither did he reject it; but he took it as a pickerel takes the bait, and carried it off with him to his hole (in the fourth story) to deal with at his leisure. [6]
For what other purpose are they set apart in elegant leisure? [4]
Other people have preceded you half an hour to scramble for impossible places and lose their tempers, but you can take your time; the courier has secured your seats for you, and you can occupy them at your leisure. [5]
Minor details at our leisure. [6]
At the end of what I have said here I propose to give the Judge my fifth interrogatory, which he may take and answer at his leisure. [7]
We may sit, now, and look and think at our leisure. [5]

More example sentences with the word leisure in them

Another, a mature young lady of fifteen, who waited on the table, in the leisure after supper asked the Friend for a light for her cigarette, which she had deftly rolled. [4]
But, to-morrow, if you have leisure, we shall look at it together. [9]
But for two years, and with leisure, he did nothing. [4]
Perhaps by-and-by he would have leisure to indulge his inclination. [4]
Jasper went to work energetically, at once, perceiving that his leisure was observed. [5]
Her duties connected with the household linen and the poultry yard, its owner's pride, were so easily performed, that in her leisure hours she often voluntarily helped the housekeeper. [10]
They know whether with all their leisure they get placidity of mind and the real rest which the older nations have learned to enjoy. [4]
They are born with a fear of not being busy; and if they are intelligent and in circumstances of leisure, they have such a sense of their responsibility that they hasten to allot all their time into portions, and leave no hour unprovided for. [4]
Whether these anticipations will ever be realized, and whether increased leisure will make us all happy, is a subject of importance; but it is secondary, and in a manner incidental, to another and deeper matter, which may be defined as the responsibility of attractiveness. [4]
Are the people who, by reason of a competence or other accidents of good-fortune, have most leisure, becoming more agreeable? [4]
She has wild whims and dangerous fancies, fills her hours of leisure with experiences--an artist is the Queen. [11]
The place through which he made his way at leisure was one of those receptacles for old and curious things which seem to crouch in odd corners of this town and to hide their musty treasures from the public eye in jealousy and distrust. [12]
I feel grateful when I can permit our poets to adorn my leisure for a brief space. [10]
After that, for weeks, he spent all his midnights in his magnificent mine, inspecting it in security, gloating over its marvels at his leisure, and always slipping back to his obscure lodgings before dawn, with a duke's ransom under his cloak. [5]
And where are we to look for this if not in the youth, and especially in those to whom fortune and leisure give an opportunity of leadership? [4]
Ask the old Washington residents whether the coming in of rich people with leisure hasn't demoralized society, or stiffened it, and made it impossible after the old sort. [4]
Her musical talent was considerable, and she devoted every leisure hour to playing on stringed instruments and singing. [10]
I have food, warmth, leisure, books, friends. [6]
All through his wanderings during a whole year he kept his injury in mind, and gave all his leisure moments to trying to invent a compensating satisfaction for it. [5]
W'y--" But the voice of the butler recalled them from the fields of imagination, and they went with lordly leisure upon the business of the household. [11]
He would take up his quarters in the room which he had occupied as a scholar, where he had studied, practised music, trained himself in the art of composition, and in leisure hours had even drawn and painted a little. [10]
It is a town of wide avenues and noble distances, and is comely and alluring, and full of suggestions of comfort and leisure, and of the serenity which a good conscience buttressed by a sufficient bank account gives. [5]
The age is too busy, too harassed, to have time for literature; and enjoyment of writings like those of Irving depends upon leisure of mind. [4]
He kindly motioned to them to keep silence, and asked what induced them to expect leisure time on that day, when, by the exertion of all their powers, they were to display their skill in the presence of their mistress and the Emperor. [10]
Was it disloyal to science if I dedicated to poesy the hours which others called leisure time? [10]
There was no time in his life when he had leisure to marry, or when it would have been consistent with his schemes to have tied himself to a home. [4]
But as the time at which I am expected there, left me ample leisure, I determined to walk instead. [12]
Unfortunately, just at this time the pressure of business allowed the Emperor little leisure to listen to the voice of the heart. [10]
Others had had this same feeling with Jethro, even the minister; but the man of leisure (who was nothing of the sort) merely felt a kind of bewilderment. [9]
In a republic there is no room for a leisure class that is not useful. [4]
He said: "Examine them at your leisure while I get mother to touch up the kite with her iron if it isn't dry enough yet. [5]
Very few of the worthy burghers--who went to bed betimes and rose so early that they rarely had leisure to enjoy the moonlight long--passed here at this hour. [10]
At any rate, the sight of these young gods of leisure, the contemplation of the stolid butler and plush footmen in the background never failed to make Lise's heart beat faster. [9]
It is not the sight of a Peter Cooper and his wealth that discontents him, nor the intellectual pursuits of the scholar who uses the leisure his fortune gives him for the higher pleasures of the mind. [4]
The game which the prince amuses his leisure with--however, never mind it, I should never be able to describe it intelligibly. [5]
Now what is the object in life of this great, growing class that has money and leisure, what does it chiefly care for? [4]
Study recommenced on the first of October, and during the leisure days before that time the village church festival was celebrated under the village linden, with plenty of cakes, and a dance of the peasants, in which we older ones took part. [10]
I simply state the fact --for it is a fact--and leave the geological reader to crack the nut at his leisure and solve the problem after his own fashion. [5]
They have made the excuse that they have not time, or, if they have leisure, that their temperament and nervous organization do not permit it. [4]
It is supposed that when we have a leisure class we shall not only make a better showing in these respects, but we shall be as agreeable--having time to devote to the art of being agreeable--as the English are. [4]
I'm half ashamed that I have leisure to go every time I go to that mission. [4]
That is quicker than by diligence, and one has leisure to see the country as he jogs along. [4]
It is his steady purpose to find the cave some time when he has leisure, and capture the chair, if it has not tumbled to pieces. [4]
Before Siebenburg appeared, spite of the early hour and the agitating news which she had just received, she had used her leisure for an elaborate toilette. [10]
Sophonisba Anguisciola still spent all her leisure hours in the studio, painting or conversing with Moor. [10]
It is this sort of blind instinct of the young man for preserving himself in the world that makes him so inaccessible to the good he might get from the prevailing culture of the leisure class. [4]
When there is so much to read, there is little time for conversation; nor is there leisure for another pastime of the ancient firesides, called reading aloud. [4]
It is not so much the accumulation of money that is mischievous in this country, for the most stupid can see that fortunes are constantly shifting hands, but it is the use that is made of the leisure and opportunity that money brings. [4]
What these were, Silas himself knew not; and the gentleman of leisure was, alas! [9]
Every leisure hour she had thought of her lost playfellow, every day she had talked to his father about him, asking whether he would rather see him return as a famous artist, a skilful smith, or commander of a splendid ship. [10]
It has always seemed singular to me that men who work so hard to build elegant houses, and have good dinners, should take so little leisure to enjoy either. [4]
These people likewise saw good Mr. Moncrieff, the clergyman, take a book from his pocket that he never had leisure to open, and heard him commence a prayer for mercy which he was not permitted to conclude. [5]
Women, as a rule, in "society" at any rate, have more leisure than men. [4]
Then she said--"The Regent certainly likes very well to pass his hours of leisure with me gossiping or playing draughts, but I do not know that I should dare to speak to him of so grave a matter. [10]
Note: At leisure read of the family history of the de Mauprats and the d'Avranches. [11]
The period of pupilage will be busy enough in acquiring the knowledge needed, and the season of active practice will leave little leisure for any but professional studies. [3]
One must have plenty of leisure to do that sort of thing, I should think. [11]
But the pleasures of inventive composition were forced to give way to scientific labors, and when I was once more at leisure to try my wings with increase of power I felt more strongly urged to other flights. [10]
They pull the oars of society, and have no leisure to watch the currents running this or that way; let theorists and philosophers attend to them. [3]
Poor Mrs. Stoker noticed, or thought she noticed, that the good man had more leisure for the youthful and blooming sister than for the more discreet and venerable matron or spinster. [6]
While I have not given nor have leisure to give the subject a careful examination, its great importance is obvious and unquestionable. [7]
Your time need not be thrown away, for at your further leisure you can make Colombian lectures out of the results and do your students a good turn. [5]
So there was no lack of entertainment during leisure hours, but the lion's share of my time was devoted to work. [10]
He began to neglect his great pork business; presently he wholly retired and turned an elegant leisure into a rabid search for curious things. [5]
They have the manner of laziness, they have the air of leisure, they have worn off the angular corners of existence, and unconsciously their life is picturesque and enjoyable. [4]
The hunters then make their way to this retreat on snowshoes, and from the top of the banks pick off the deer at leisure with their rifles, and haul them away to market, until the enclosure is pretty much emptied. [4]
He proved himself loyal, and devoted every leisure hour of the night to the sufferer. [10]
The longings for liberty and leisure which May sunshine wakens in you, stir my sympathy. [14]
There, in quiet leisure, he hopes to strive for knowledge and to penetrate deeply into all the new things which were discovered, invented, created, and improved during his reign, and of which he was permitted to learn far too little thoroughly. [10]
We who have leisure ought to do something for the working-classes. [4]
They wanted to know if his idea was that they should stick by the yacht until he got leisure to resume the voyage, or if he expected them to walk home. [4]
However this question is answered, a strong appeal might be made to the people of leisure to do not only what is expected of them by foreign observers, but to take advantage of their immense opportunities. [4]
The number of inhabitants being not very large, I had leisure, during my visits to the Providence Plantations, to inspect the face of the country in the intervals of more fascinating studies of physiognomy. [6]
An hour later, indeed, Coniston was discussing the man of leisure in a new light. [9]
Their lives must include a little leisure, comfortable homes, art and beauty and above all an education that none of us, especially those of us who went to universities, never got,--but which now should be available for all. [9]
If there--were leisure in this too-leisurely chronicle for what might be called aftermath, the dinner that Honora had given to some of her Quicksands friends might be described. [9]
That rare accident in the lives of people who have nothing to do, a leisure morning, did at last occur. [6]
This she did in all fidelity, but in her hours of leisure she loved to listen to the stories told her by the wives of officials, who had seen, and could praise, the splendors of Rome the golden. [10]
One thing particularly impressed me,--the sense that he seemed to have of a certain great amplitude of time and leisure. [6]
As a historian I would consign it all to immortality; and in my leisure moments I would be a great poet and a man of the world. [6]
Jane had now, however, no leisure to brood over the coils that were closing round her. [13]
You, too, know how easy it is for the man who has most to do to spare a leisure hour which the person without occupation does not find, and neither of us is accustomed to deceive the other. [10]
During my leisure hours translating afforded me special pleasure. [10]
In his leisure hours he would visit the condemned in prison, speak comfort to them, and give them presents out of the fine profits he derived from his business among the wealthy. [10]
During his leisure hours he devoted himself to gymnastic exercises, and even late in life his eyes sparkled when he spoke of his friend, old Jahn, and the political elevation of Prussia. [10]
The blind man's hope that they must also include greetings and news from his friend's hand was destroyed by Bias, whom Myrtilus, in the leisure hours on the Hydra, had taught to read. [10]
He spent only his leisure hours in the study of the ancient writers, in whom he found pleasure, and rejoiced in the work of the humanists without sharing their opinions. [10]
Navarrete, who carried his head as high as the proudest grandee, devoted every leisure hour to his suffering comrade, uniting the affection of a brother, with the duties of a servant. [10]
Apparently he devoted himself to his office work, and about the occupation of his leisure hours no one was in his confidence except Celia, and now and then, when he got something into print, Alice. [4]
He would give himself no leisure to indulge in idle dreams of what might have been. [6]
I can play him at my leisure and land him when I choose. [5]
Carved, too, beneath her name, are the words, "Oh, tarry thou the Lord's leisure. [11]
Before leaving her, he undertook to send her tidings of Wolf's health now and then by the violinist Massi, as he had not leisure to do it himself. [10]
Sometime, when I have more leisure, I shall go into them, fully with you. [9]
The neighbors who have leisure to help you in grape-picking time are all busy when devil-grass is most aggressive. [4]
As you may have imagined before now, the doctor's profession was leisure, not medicine. [9]
But we already have a considerable and increasing number of people who can command their own time if we have not a leisure class, and the sociologist might begin to study the effect of this leisureliness upon society. [4]
The whole village has an air of leisure and refinement. [4]
On the other hand, I again devoted many leisure hours to Egyptological works. [10]
Mercifully, however, she had little leisure to reflect on that tragedy, else her own sanity might have been endangered. [9]

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