One is apt to think of the Creeper as a silent and very busy bird, who never finds leisure to rest and preen his feathers, or to relieve his mind with song.
Birds are in fact an extremely difficult subject for minute study; abundant leisure at the proper season, indefatigable perseverance, and the means and opportunity of travel, are its necessary conditions, which are denied to most men.
Ferber was very capable and skilful, and employed every moment of his leisure in improving his new possession.
She made acquaintance with a lady's-maid over there, and spent all her leisure time with her.
Very much at his leisure Charlton dismounted and came after him.
Happy are they who, having felt the sweetness of walking with Him on the weary road, seek Him to bless their leisure and to add a more blissful depth of repose to their rest!
He has leisure of heart to feel for each, and power for both.
I shall have neither leisure nor inclination to be anxious about outward things, when I am engaged and absorbed in seeking the kingdom.
We admire the leisure and calm of spirit which he displays.
Even then His heart was enough at leisurefrom itself to observe, to pity, and to help.
But Norfolk was old, and the latitudinarian Paget and the bigoted Gardiner bore each other no good will; so that, when the queen had leisure to contemplate her position, it did not promise to be an easy one.
But when the letter and the brief arrived Mary was at no leisure to be married.
You are now a man possessed of as much leisure as you are ever likely to possess.
The day after the men joined, the Arrow sailed, which I was not sorry for, as it left me more at leisure to expedite my own affairs.
At any rate my mother was a person of leisure by comparison with neighbour women who were trying to clothe, clean, and discipline ten or twelve children apiece.
And now I suppose he'll be over to-morrow to indulge us with the pent-up leisureof two months!
And when we had flopped our burden on to a couch, and Tewksbury had leisure for reflection, he said-- "You will never convince me that this was all produced by burgundy.
You could consider this fact atleisure as our 'bus toiled slowly up the rise of a road which spans the canal.
The invention, or introduction rather, of the salt-water aquarium enables any one nowadays to study in comfort and atleisure the habits and peculiarities of marine animals.
No, sir; but if you have leisure to listen to me, you will then find that, in this world, we may be deceived by appearances.
My leisure time, I hardly need say was spent with Mr Cophagus and his family, and my attachment to Susannah Temple increased every day.
I have a curiosity to go down there, and having a leisure day or two, it will be a relaxation.
Within the sequestered and romantic glades of the Forest of Arden, they find leisure to be good and wise, or to play the fool and fall in love.
The speakers are like persons who have both leisure and inclination to make riddles on their own situation, and to twist and turn every object or incident into acrostics and anagrams.
After that, said the Primadonna to herself, she would repay her friend all the money he had lent her, and would then decide at her leisure whether she would marry him or not.
But in his leisure the pressure is removed, his heart is free and judgment may for the time take a back seat--there was where Dean Swift picked his laurels.
Starr had quit the drygoods trade and gone to teaching school on less salary, so as to get more leisure for study.
I know not what will be next; but I find, the more I seek for leisure and retirement from business, the more I am engaged in it.
It afforded me, however, the Leisure to read, or hear read, all the Packets of your various Newspapers, which you so kindly sent for my Amusement.
While the mornings are long, and you have leisure to go abroad, what do you do?
I shall communicate your letter to Mr. Winthrop; but the camp is at Cambridge, and he has as little leisure for philosophy as myself.
I requested of the Congress last Year my Discharge from this publick Station, that I might enjoy a little Leisure in the Evening of a long Life of Business; but it was refus'd me, and I have been obliged to drudge on a little longer.
Nothing can please me more than to see your philosophical Improvements when you have Leisure to communicate them to me.
Having few artificial Wants, they have abundance ofLeisure for Improvement by Conversation.
Will you go back with me in the Imp, or at your leisure with the crowd in the car?
I like anything that means being at work again, without having to play that I'm a lady of leisure at any moment that anybody wants my company.
Though she was at the time overwhelmed with the imminent dangers which threatened her, yet she still found leisure to show her kindness to those who were doing their best, though in vain, to serve her.
Thus was this wicked prelate left at leisure to premeditate the horrid plot of the famous necklace, the ever memorable fraud, which so fatally verified the presentiments of the Queen.
In the tranquillity and leisure which she sought, she survived for twenty years, dying at the age of seventy-four in 1870.
When the reception was over, at ten o'clock, in the soft dim dusk, a little party again stole out, to see with greater leisure and privacy those noble trees and hoary buildings.
He granted the scholar an annual stipend, so that he might be at leisure to apply himself to the translation of Arabic works of a scientific character.
The German rabbis, by whom Solomon Petit had been supported, had no leisure to note the issue of the strife concerning Maimuni.
Statesmen competed with men of leisurefor the palm of erudition.
As to the Caid's African life, it was well known, and its accidents had more than once beguiled the leisure of the bivouac.
The English may take on airs in literature; for our little leisure leaves us short repose, and it would be strange indeed, if their civilization of centuries had not left its marks in a finer culture and a deeper thought.
To this subject he had directed his attention when in Russia; and had devoted the leisure his duties as Secretary of State permitted, without approximating to its completion, owing to the number and perplexity of details its pursuit involved.
I now became the captain's steward, in which situation I was very happy: for I was extremely well treated by all on board; and I had leisure to improve myself in reading and writing.
Generally, after he had done working for his master, he used to employ his few leisure moments to go a fishing.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "leisure" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
