...o cope with this fortuitous cornucopia - that it began to trade weapons, a gainful avocation it found hard to dislodge ever since. The convulsive d...

... good to the old man,” said Gottfried, himself almost regretting the lad’s avocation. “My eyes are failing me, and he is aiding me with the graving of... ...r-haired maidens, three in number, who run in and out from their household avocations to appeal to the “dear grandmother,” mischievously to tell of th...

...f for the evening she sat a while under the lamp, her hands empty, her usual avocations unheeded. Then she rose and moved about the room, and from one... ...id Isabel, “I give it up!”—while her aunt returned to the house and to those avocations which the visitor had interrupted. She gave it up, but she sti...

.... But though she could neither sleep nor rest in her bed, yet, having no avocation from it, she was found there by her father at his return from All...

... gratitude and hereditary friendship compelled me to bestow on these rural avocations. The exquisite beauty of Mistress Amy Robsart, as she grew up fr...

...nsequently we must develop in our children and young adults the abilities to have power to do some things well. This can be in the vocational, avocat... ...ned with your personal economies and they are concerned with their time away from work. We think there is a happy medium between vocation and avocat... ...f the arts and amateur dancers. The symbolic capital is commonly generated by one‘s success in his work, but it can also come from success in avocat...

...y of her sorrows was so restrained by religious resignation, by her secret avocations, that she seemed to have been always happy. “You are the life of...

...s of the inward man were too absorbing to ad- mit of much attention to her avocations. She desired to talk to God, but her vileness utterly forbade it...

...ever met,” said Lydia, “who did not claim art as the most laborious of all avocations. They all deny the existence of genius, and attribute everything...

... employed, would not know how to move, for want of a foundation and footing, in most men, who through laziness or avocation do not, or for want of ti...

... entreating hands, and lisped the word ‘nontre,’ Madame would pause in her avocations, take her on her knee, and display that wonderful gold and ename...

...ed in the building business, which he had unfortunately added to his other avocations of surveyor, valuer, and agent, had conducted that business for ... ...fixing, which had to come first, was the more difficult task:—what secular avocation on earth was there for a young man (whose friends could not get h...

...ed in the building business, which he had unfortunately added to his other avocations of surveyor, valuer, and agent, had conducted that business for ... ...he fixing, which had to come first, was the more difficult task:—what secular avocation on earth was there for a young man (whose friends could not get h...

...lavour in language has evaporated. Your very gravedigger has forgotten his avocation in his electorship, 88 Robert Louis Stevenson and would quibble ...

... be the act of the whole, which, considering the infirmities of health and avocations of business, which in a number though much less than that of a c...

...iew, for which Sir William Ashton, notwithstanding the nature of his usual avocations, had considerable taste and feeling, they were over- taken by th... ...ed by some necessary cause of detention. In the midst of all these various avocations, political and domestic, he seemed not to observe how much his d...

...ull six years of his life, and that he wholly retired himself from all the avocations and pleasures of the world, to attend diligently to its correcti...

...rtments. It is impossible to keep the judges too distinct from every other avocation than that of expounding the laws. *Mr. Abraham Yates, a warm oppo...

...s in sight and out of reach of land. We spent the day on board in the usual avocations; but as this was the first time we had been without the captai...

... enemies of our country, and that all who chose could continue their usual avocations with assurance of the protection of the government. This was evi...