It began with the shepherds who whiledaway their hours knocking about a woollen ball with their shepherd's crook.
We whiled away several hours with gloomy forebodings, occasionally taking the lantern to go to the stable and look her over.
Our conveyance was a species of way-freight, which whiled away most of the day at a speed fittingly respectful to the scenery about us.
Game of cards whiledaway the hours pleasantly to many.
Whiled away the heavy moments as best we could with dominoes, etc.
Lay in camp with no excitement; notwithstanding I whiled the hours away without much trouble with plenty of papers and captured books to read.
He whiled him on to speak farther; but the same cloud was still upon Sir Henry Dacre's mind.
His friends, however, had been delayed a little on their way, so they did not reach Stonehenge at the appointed hour; and Charles whiledaway the time by counting and recounting the stones.
We whiledaway the time by talking about the sermons and the snuff, but chiefly about the deacons and their wonderful noses, and why they were all alike and so strangely crooked.
It was a long journey, and it was half-past eight o'clock at night before we reached our destination, but the weariness of travelling had been whiled away by pleasant company and delightful scenery.
It was the morning of the first of May, Into the close I went to pluck a flower; And there I found a bird of woodland gay, Who whiled with songs of love the silent hour.
They visited its ports and ancient spots of renown and interest, roamed together in that classic land of generous nature, soft, sunny Italy and thus together whiled away many a month of pleasant occupation.
Even the occasional artillery duels with which their army brethrenwhiled away the time were denied to the wistful blue-jackets.
So the hours between nine and five ceased to be an intolerable burden, and the hours from five till bedtime could be whiled away at the club in discussing the baseball returns.
She sat down to the feast, and whiled away the hour with pleasant and playful conversation.
With them, he whiledaway some of his time, after which he returned into the garden.
The time was whiledaway pleasantly enough at Matamoras, while we were waiting for volunteers.
Beyond this it was no more successful than the other experiments with which the winter was whiled away.
The long hours of the journey were whiled away watching the Sunday crowds in the stations, many of the men and women in the astonishingly original costume of the province.
In my eagerness to be in time, I arrived half an hour too early, so I whiled away the minutes watching the altar boys prepare for the ceremony.
She found her companions somewhat dull, andwhiled away the time in examining the Japanese pavilion.
In the meantime Helene had found Madame Deberle and her sister Pauline in the Japanese pavilion where they so frequently whiled away the afternoon.
Side by side and blissfully happy, they whiled the morning hours away.
With such-like talk as this time was whiled away; and whilst we were yet conversing I noticed that Basil spoke often to the captain and looked for to be watching a ship yet at some distance, but which seemed to be gaining on us.
Or we went to Greenwich Park, and underneath the spreading trees, with England's pride of shipping in sight, and barges passing to and fro on the broad stream as on a watery highway, we whiled away the time in many joyous pastimes.
And what child ever whiled away summer noons along thy grassy banks, nor hallowed thy remembrance among the fairy days of life?
Whiled away the evening at my office trying to repeat the rules of measuring learnt this day, and so to bed with my mind very well pleased with this day's work.
Napoleon," he remarked lightly, "whiled away many a dull hour with cards, I believe.
They whiled away the time with books, games, and conversation.
She went down to the beach and easily whiled away an hour watching the waves and the people, and digging in the sand.
Here they whiled away the hours by telling stories--entertaining, instructive, or romantic.
But when I set his name with honor in my verse, he tells me I have whiled my time away in ease and pleasure--I had pleased him better by attendance on his person.
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