Pastime

Examples

• But it was too cold a pastime. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• The night is spent in this jolly pastime. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• I give you leave, returned Laurie, who enjoyed having someone to tease, after his long abstinence from his favorite pastime. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• Think of ten days of this sort of pastime! Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• One's safest course that day was to clasp a railing and hang on; walking was too precarious a pastime. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• In the advanced state of society, therefore, they are all very poor people who follow as a trade, what other people pursue as a pastime. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• He was startled when they came upon him while he was engaged in this latter pastime, and his colour changed. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
• Clym cuts furze, but he does it mostly as a useful pastime, because he can do nothing else. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• He is paid for his pastime, isn't he? Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• The feeling was not with her as with many, a pastime; it was a passion. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• Pastime, said madame, still looking at him with a smile while her fingers moved nimbly. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
• This made study a pleasant pastime. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• Howe took up the matter as a pastime, giving his spare moments to it, and talking it over with his wife in the evenings when he was not too tired. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• Further reading awakened a deep interest in the problem of the airship, and they worked upon it, at first as a scientific pastime, but soon in all seriousness. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• To watch her children hour by hour, to sit by me, drinking deep the dear persuasion that I remained to her, was all her pastime. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• 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 Lelia