...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...

...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...

...oitering through the room, pre- vious to settling to their various morning avocations, he came and leant over the back of my chair, with his face in c...

... 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...

...ag, which had somewhat puzzled him in the butler’s account of his master’s avocations, had nothing to do either with a black cat or a broomstick, but ...

...ter freedom when he left the room, and some of her favourite old household avocations were tenderly resumed by stealth, as though she feared he might ...

...sacred action they were engaged in, and not suffer any business or worldly avocation to disturb and interrupt it; most of the things which men do of t...

...assable respect for the privacy daily enforced upon me by the nature of my avocation here and the state of my health. This testimony, so long as I liv...

...al hazards are in their case, by rea son of the dangerous nature of their avocations, exceptionally great, so very great, I find, as to be stateable,... ...he privacy daily enforced Charles Dickens 128 upon me by the nature of my avocation here, and the state of my health. This testimony, so long as I li...

...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...

...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...

...thon. Socrates, having laid them to rest, takes a bath and goes to his daily avocations until the evening. Aristodemus follows. IF IT BE TRUE that ...

...k them selves at masquerades. There are people who do not see man’s highest avocation in polishing the floor with their boots. There are people, gent...

...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...

...puts me in mind of the luncheon hour at home. As he has thus no ostensible avocation, we have named him ‘the W.S.’ to give a flavour of respectability...

...re.’ ‘My name is Riah,’ said the old man, with courteous ac- tion, ‘and my avocation is in London city. This, my young companion—’ ‘Stop a bit,’ inter...

...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...

... years in the building; it took Robert Stevenson, in the midst of his many avocations, no less than fourteen to prepare the account. The title-page is...

...y the fire after breakfast; the gentlemen having gone out on their several avocations. ‘Charming woman, indeed!’ repeated little Mrs. Tibbs, more by w... ...y. For many years after this occurrence, and when profit- able and arduous avocations would have led many men to forget that such a miserable being ex... ...s he passes by. Is there any man who has mixed much with society, or whose avocations have caused him to mingle, at one time or other, with a great nu...

...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...

...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...

...ce between them, Ralph Nickleby sat that morning occupied in his customary avocations, and yet unable to prevent his thoughts wandering from time to t...

...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...

...ce between them, Ralph Nickleby sat that morning occupied in his customary avocations, and yet unable to prevent his thoughts wandering from time to t... ... is a good heart,’ said Nicholas, ‘that disentangles itself from the close avocations of every day, to heed such things. Y ou were saying—’ ‘That the ...

... 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...

...cious. However, for the present the uneasiness was set aside, in the daily avocations of the Rectory, where Alick was always a very different person f...

...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...

... is a good heart,’ said Nicholas, ‘that disentangles itself from the close avocations of every day, to heed such things. Y ou were saying—’ 108 THE L...

...ent gloves, like dead leaves, in which she was accustomed to perform these avocations -hidden from human sight at other times in a table drawer—and we...

... 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...

...et. Poor little Leonora had been very fretful and uneasy when Flora’s many avocations had first caused her to be set aside, and Preston had had recour...