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...gh and Holy name at which every knee shall bow, that you take leisure from your several avocations, lay aside your several speculations, and diligent...

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...Thomas Troward was a divisional Judge in British-administered India. His avocation was the study of comparative religion. Influences on his thinking, as well as his later writing, included the teachings of Christ, Islam, Hinduism, and Buddhism. After his retirement from the judiciary in 1896, Trow...

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...say to him by way of a good day when they met; and indeed that was now his avocation in life. He was Colonel Crawley no more. He was Mrs. Crawley’s hu... ...ome alacrity, however, and our friend returned to London to commence those avocations with which we find her occupied when this chapter begins. Under ...

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...Y, when the Dodger and Master Bates had gone out to pursue their customary avocations, Mr. Fagin took the opportunity of reading Oliver a long lecture... ... to indicate that the inhabitants of these miserable cottages pursued some avocation on the river; but a glance at the shattered and useless condition...

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...the most of it. We have been thus particular in describing the character and avocations of Bottle nosed Ned, because it enables us to introduce a fact... ...s.” He had there seen many fleas, occupied certainly in various pursuits and avocations, but occupied, he was bound to add, in a manner which no man o...

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...rriage which were barred to him in earlier days. “Madame,” he replied, “my avocations prevent my going much into society; but for you, what will not a...

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...llection, and it would not have been worth his while to forsake a fruitful avocation merely to hear Mrs. Penniman say, for the thousandth time, that s...

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...s of what it had been in former days; the inhabitants, their more peaceful avocations having been repeatedly inter- rupted by the civil wars of the pr...

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... on their arrival in the ports, so as to secure them here a free choice of avocations and places of settlement. A liberal disposition toward this gre...

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...ajority of the searchers had given up the quest and gone back to their daily avocations, saying that it was plain the children could never be found. M...

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...or creating, only a little leisure for drinking, and such like beer-barrel avocations! Truly, a cutting of blocks with fine razors while we scrape our...

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...whole scheme. It formed a considerable addition to Henrietta’s list of his avocations, and really by making the utmost of everything he did for other ...

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...lowly to the dwelling, and endeavored to forget his curiosity in the usual avocations of his office. When the Judge made his reappearance in the circl... ...e air of a mild evening, he found Benjamin engaged in some of his domestic avocations, and in a hurried voice inquired where Judge T emple was to be f...

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... suddenly burst upon a busy people, actively employed in all the customary avocations of high noon. The women ran from lodge to lodge, some engaged in...

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...reover she was lonely and bored; she missed Emile, who was recalled by his avocations, for he had helped her to pass the hours when the general was sc...

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..., strong under necessary privations, but without cour- age for commonplace avocations. When the baron begged his sister in his wife’s name to continue...

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...apelle. The removing his son to a dull watering-place, when he had so many avocations at home, had been a great vexation to the Earl; but he was delig...

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...ear Copperfield, engaged in the sale of corn upon commission. It is not an avocation of a remunerative description in other words, it does not pay and...

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...ce of her manners. The vehe- ment activity with which he pursued his three avocations was a part of his natural character and temperament. He was a fi...

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...ere struck by its external gloom in passing and repass- ing on their daily avocations, and so named it, if they could have read its story in the darke...