Sentence examples for leisure to write from inspiring English sources

Will Chris Huhne use his enforced leisure to write?

In later years, a severe incapacity resulting from a fall from a horse provided him with the leisure to write.

Maybe only idlers, hobbyists, obsessives, and retirees (count me among all four) have the leisure to write long for the Web.

She was white and well educated; she had a financially dependable husband and a big house in a crime-free neighborhood; and she enjoyed the leisure to write, or do anything else she liked.

He opened medical practice in London in 1926 but quit because of ill health, using his leisure to write his first novel, Hatter's Castle (1931; filmed 1941), the story of a Scottish hatmaker obsessed with the idea of the possibility of his noble birth.

Mr Alderman Harris writes in 1752 from Gloucester:—"Sir, At the request of Mr Mayor, whose extraordinary hurry of business will not afford him leisure to write himself, I am desired to acquaint you, that by the Gloucester waggon this week is sent the usual present of a lamprey pie from this corporation to H. R. H. the Prince of Wales.

Quintus was fond of reading and study and devoted much of his leisure to writing.

And during this period he used his few leisure moments to write a play.

From 1712 to 1714 he was steward in the household of the Duchess of Monmouth, which gave him leisure and security to write.

My current fantasy involves being banished to an island (with wireless, of course) to write at my leisure.

We were chatting in a booth in the lobby of the Algonquin Hotel in July for a story I planned to write for Arts & Leisure about a long-held theory of mine: that though Mr. Costello grew up in Liverpool and London and has lived in Dublin and now Canada, his music has a certain New York sensibility — sharp, honest, to-the-point, but with beauty and affection below the surface.