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I whiled away the hours whilst waiting for him to arrive

They whiled them with such answere as suted to their purposes, and long adoe was made in weaving and unweaving Penelopes web, till the Spanish Armada was upon the Coast, and the very Ordnance proclaimed in their eares a surcease from further illusions.

The tedious hours whiled slowly on, 'till the succeeding afternoon, when the expected carriage made its appearance much sooner than they had promised themselves.

There it lies before me sparkling in the sun, whiling me as it often does from my pen or book to gaze upon its loveliness.