Mrs. Leighton said the General assured her you would never find leisure for it, but I said I would promise for you.

My grandfather gave his leisure to his grandchildren.

'But that will leave you hardly any timeno leisure.' 'Leisure for what?' 'For anythingfor me, for instance,' said Aylmer boldly.

They had employed their leisure in jerking the venison they had taken, of which they had some four or five bushels, and which they intended to take home with them, to serve, together with the skins of the deer they had slain, as trophies of their success.

Have you got any story about it?" Mr. Penrose practiced as a solicitor in London, but lived in a little old house near the Irechesters' in the village street, and devoted his leisure to the antiquities and topography of the neighborhood; his lore was plentiful and curious, if not important.

There lived an armourer in the Gallowgate, one Weir, with whom I began to spend my leisure.

After the six months of comparative seclusion which decency exacted of his widowerhoodand thereby afforded him ample leisure to complete and publish his Lichfield Legislative Papers prior to 1800the colonel, be it repeated, went everywhere; and people found him no whit the worse company for his black gloves and the somber band stitched to his coatsleeve.

Sirrah, must I stand waiting your Leisure, while you are roguing here?

It may amuse literary leisure to turn over his quarto volume, in which he has collected the works of several English alchymists, to which he has subjoined his commentary.

He had now by his conquests and valor attained the utmost height of grandeur: having leisure from wars and intrigues, he felt the unsatisfactory nature of all human enjoyments; and equally weary of the glories and turmoils of this life, he began to cast his view toward that future existence, which it is so natural for the human mind, whether satiated by prosperity or disgusted with adversity, to make the object of its attention.

When he could enjoy leisure, he recreated himself either in learned conversation or in reading; and he cultivated his natural talents by study, above any prince of his time.

James is at Williamsburg, so that you may be entirely free to occupy your leisure at Riverview as best pleases you.

" Another observed, that nothing was more unreasonable than my hope, that any remarks or elucidations would be drawn up by that fraternity, since their own employments do not allow them any leisure for such attempts.

Central North-America is to an extraordinary degree worked out everywhere in careful detail, in moderate hill and valley, in undulating prairie and fertile plain,not tossed into barren mountain-masses and table-lands, like that vast desert plateau which stretches through Central Asia,not struck out in blank, like the Russian steppes and the South American llanos, as if Nature had wanted leisure to elaborate and finish.

"'Culture takes leisure, elegance, wide margins of time, a pocket-book; drudgery means limitations, coarseness, crowded hours, chronic worry, old clothes, black hands, headaches.

Of the mule there were no other traces than a few natural signs around the building, but which might equally be attributed to the beasts that still awaited the leisure of the travellers.

After its first drying in the fields where it grew, it is stored in bundles under cover till all the other summer work is done, and autumn brings leisure.

you shall stay my leisure.

He cannot give himself up to filling his leisure pleasantly, by society or amusement.

"I should be glad to see you again later in the evening, but at present I desire a little leisure for solitary thought.

I am passionately fond of flowers, but my life at that time was not one that permitted me much leisure to indulge in my liking.

It was from the stipend which he thus enjoyed that he secured leisure for mathematical and literary work.

Employ thy time well, if thou meanest to gain leisure!

If I should command sufficient leisure to bring it down to 1861, I think that I might then very well stop."

No wealth can buy the requisite leisure, freedom, and independence, which are the capital in this profession.