Recreation

Examples

• Society has claims on us all; and I profess myself one of those who consider intervals of recreation and amusement as desirable for everybody. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
• Politics, business, recreation, art, science, the learned professions, polite intercourse, leisure, represent such interests. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• Anatomy she described as the Professor's favourite recreation in his leisure hours. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• Recreation, as the word indicates, is recuperation of energy. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• So is the suggestion that church buildings be used for recreation. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• Half-an-hour's recreation succeeded, then study; then the glass of water and the piece of oat-cake, prayers, and bed. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• When the frequent rains shut us within doors, evening recreation followed morning study, ushered in by music and song. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• If Lucy Snowe were discovered to have put her hand to such work, he planned, in recompence, some pleasant recreation. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• Mr. Bulstrode was conscious of being in a good spiritual frame and more than usually serene, under the influence of his innocent recreation. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• We are a handful of private citizens of America, traveling simply for recreation, and unostentatiously, as becomes our unofficial state! Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• It was dangerous recreation, but it was pleasanter than traveling in Syria. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• I never could look on it in the light of a recreation to have my ears teased with measured noises, said Mr. Casaubon. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• Nevertheless, billiards today throughout the land is ranked among the highest and cleanest forms of recreation. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• With them he divided the day into three equal parts, one for religion, one for public affairs, and one for rest and recreation. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• With the renewal of physical existence goes, in the case of human beings, the recreation of beliefs, ideals, hopes, happiness, misery, and practices. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• Monsieur has seen me reading them a hundred times, and knows I have not so many recreations as to undervalue those he provides. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• But it's a pity you should not have little recreations of that sort, Casaubon: the bow always strung--that kind of thing, you know--will not do. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• Life covers customs, institutions, beliefs, victories and defeats, recreations and occupations. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• As to their wanting recreations, ma'am,' said Bitzer, 'it's stuff and nonsense. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
• Modernized, it is now the scene of more peaceful recreations than the exhibition of a party of wild beasts with Christians for dinner. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• No companions, no recreations, many cares I am afraid? Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.

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