Possible Clues:

• Quite some time
• White slave loses vest for a short time
• Not long, timewise
• Hie with the law for a time! (6)
• For a time
• For a few hours, maybe
• Henry taken in by a trick for a short time
• Shortly, after 'in'
• Law he and I violated for a time
• A trick of one speaking for a brief period