What is "while away"

Usage examples of "while away".

It was the fashion to while away the Passing protecting or plaguing the primitives.

He had been my prime favorite among the bookwriters of the century,--I mean the nineteenth century,--and a week had rarely passed in my old life during which I had not taken up some volume of his works to while away an idle hour.

Now what do you suppose that 400 virtually immortal, perfect little pixies who have no reproductive potential - because they constantly oscillate back and forth across that crucial differentiation - like to do to while away the years, hmm?

Maybe you can interest Bata in a game of Dabo to while away the days.

Might Jonathan be prompted to tell someone of their circus act while away at college?

I brought my board with me, thinking that it might while away a few idle hours on the long voyage.

Books of engravings, drawers of medals, cameos, corals, shells, and every other family collection within his cabinets, had been prepared for his old friend, to while away the morning.

It carried food, wines, a library that was all the most self-indulgent dictator could want to while away those long, dull days in space.

He thinks of a star-bright, top-deck bubble dome where three boneless Spicans do a twining dance of propitiation to while away the slow hours of nine-light travel.

Here and there on all sides were huge masses of floating ice, looking like cathedrals, and castles, and crags, while away beyond was a blue sea.

Finally he led the way into the drawing-room, with the remark that the business was now out of our hands, and that we must while away the time as best we might until we could see what was in store for us.

They thought it was a joke told by men, a farce spun forth by rumor, a wild story to while away the summer afternoon.

Indeed, they see that suffering as a spectacle, a gladiatorial slaughter to entertain them and while away the years.