Pastimes
[pɑ:staimz]
Examples
- Lonely musings, interminable wanderings, and solemn music were her only pastimes. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- But as husbandmen have less leisure than shepherds, they are not so frequently employed in those pastimes. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- Our pastimes to see, Under every green tree, In all the gay woodland, right welcome ye be. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- The top floor was alight, and filled with soldiers engaged in the pastimes of their kind; I could not, therefore, reach the roof through the building. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
- And, talking of the devil, Holy Clerk, are you not afraid that he may pay you a visit during some of your uncanonical pastimes? Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- The ordinary pastimes of such husbandmen are the same as those of shepherds, and are in the same manner the images of war. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- They are indolent, as a general thing, and yet have few pastimes. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- I did not omit even our sports and pastimes, or any other particular which I thought might redound to the honour of my country. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
Edited by Della