Tawnies are Ports that are bottled much later, after having whiled away many years in wooden casks, where they take on amber hues and nutty, caramelized flavors.
They are fun and easy to use (your correspondent has whiled away many happy hours failing to learn how to beatmatch properly).
Given his father's occupation and proximity to the course, he whiled away many hours perfecting his timing with a stationary white ball.
Her younger daughter, Amanda, who is 11, has whiled away many hours up there with her cousin and best friend, Natasha Ortiz, 15.
We whiled away many hours playing backgammon together and were well-matched – my father more skilled and I luckier with the dice.
The Miser once whiled away many autodidactic hours around Lincoln Center, triangulating between the CD racks of Tower Records, the brimming bookshelves of Barnes & Noble — who knew that someday we'd miss the chains!
As the founders of Bang on a Can, an industrious, influential collective, the three whiled away many an hour over scrambled eggs and kasha, forging an agenda that would help reshape the new-music scene in New York.
Working at the nursing home, I'd whiled away many an hour flicking through The Lady magazine and seen the classified advertisements for nannies, housekeepers and live-in companions.
I was one of the hundreds of Peace Corps volunteers who whiled away many an hour on the second-floor veranda of the City Hotel in Freetown, Sierra Leone (Freetown Journal, June 26), drinking Star beer and taking in the Graham Greene-like colonial atmosphere while watching the late-afternoon flight of the bats out of the palm trees along the street.
Now 84, she has sung here, slept here, whiled away countless evenings with the likes of Camus, Cocteau or Gainsbourg.
Prosperous city dwellers, flush with new leisure hours, whiled away winter evenings playing board games about travel, reading Longfellow or staring at wallpaper of bare-chested Indians floating in canoes: lavender-scented visions of Hiawatha.
