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...ant use, a copy which I have read over as often as I could, consistently with the other occupations of my ministry. And every time that I have read i... ...l merry-making, and jubilee to the saints, magnificent banquets, festivities, concerts, entertainments, theatres, &c. And what appeared most importa...

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...Penniman, with more buckles and bangles than ever, came, of course, to the entertainment, accompanied by her niece; the Doctor, too, had promised to l... ...en, looking away, “I am rather tired,” she murmured. I have said that this entertainment was the beginning of something impor- tant for Catherine. For... ...in its annals. More than this, he went so far as to promise him- self some entertainment from the little drama—if drama it was—of which Mrs. Penniman ... ...er he had hoped for a little more resistance for the sake of a little more entertainment; but he said to himself, as he had said before, that though i... ...ine “sticking” appeared to have a comical side, and to offer a prospect of entertainment. He determined, as he said to himself, to see it out. 94 Was... ...n him. She held up her head and busied her hands, and went about her daily occupations; and when the state of things in Washington Square seemed intol... ...e shudder!” his sister exclaimed. Catherine went rigidly through her usual occupations; that is, up to the point of going with her aunt to church on S...

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...o Sparta, a removal from contact with those employed in low and mechanical occupations giving high refinement and beauty to the state. Some Greek writ... ...ughter. Mirth, introduced seasonably at their suppers and places of common entertainment, was to serve as a sort of sweetmeat to accompany their stric... ...iness, a passion that has become inveterate in me for peace, for unwarlike occupations, and for the society of men whose 107 Plutarch’s Lives meeting... ...ice in a per- functory and inattentive manner, but, laying aside all other occupations, should apply their minds to religion as to a most 117 Plutarc... .... There goes a story that he once invited a great number of citizens to an entertainment, at which the dishes in which the meat was served were very h... ...ing-vessels, and the tables loaded with rich meats, and a most sumptu- ous entertainment. But the dialogue which is reported to have passed between hi... ... and work, did well to take off his citizens from laborious and mechanical occupations, and keep them to their arms, and teach them only the art of wa... ...When he came to the Olympic games, and was so splendid in his equipage and entertainments, in his rich tents and furniture, that he strove to outdo Ci... ... T olmides, were employed by Pericles rather to fill the city with festive entertainments and solemnities than to enlarge and secure its empire. Where...

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...bly and weakly, that became steadily more crowded with ignoble and trivial occupations, that had sunken now to indignity and uncleanness. He was over-... ...nd stifling within him. This was what Merkle and the club servants and the entertainments and engagements and his mother and the artistic touts and th... ...s return, and he told them his impressions of Chichester and described the entertainment of the evening guest at a country inn and suddenly produced h... ...was sketching out jolly things that they were to do together, expeditions, entertainments, amusements, and adventures, with a voluble swiftness, and s... ...risoner in the dusk of her hair, and the world was all one vast promise of entertainment. 160 The Research Magnificent 6 6 6 6 6 But the raid into th...

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...t all, or to obtain a seat, fine music, grand sermons, religious meetings, entertainments for the poor, lectures, lessons, exhibitions, rides, drives,... ... of time alone, chiefly in waiting his pleasure; but she had her own quiet occupations, her books, her needlework, her housekeeping, and letter-writin... ...on the bad accounts, and the girl hardly attended to them in the tumult of occupations; and so at 148 Nuttie’s Father last, when the final tidings ca... ...e excited state in which she was, the idea of the contrast between her own occupations and Mary’s was so dreadful to her that she wept most bitterly, ... ...l he was a dog of moderation, for there was great temptation to repeat the entertainment more than was whole- some for him. ‘There, Wynnie,’ said Nutt... ...ility, each being more or less prolonged, according to health, weather, or entertainment, and closed again by the sedatives in vari- ous forms. It rel... ...tion, and she even endeavoured to employ herself with some of her ordinary occupations, though all the time she kept up the ceaseless watch. ‘Mr. Dutt...

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... beginning again slowly, ‘that the Romans, in those gorgeous and pro- fuse entertainments of which we read in the days of the Em- perors, when luxury ... ...n Sea,’ pursued the Doctor, in his severest voice; ‘when we read of costly entertainments such as these, and still remember, that we have a Titus—’ ‘W... ...d the possibility of her setting up her rest in the passage during such an entertainment, and there delivering some homily of an uncomplimentary natur... ...cked, in the conduct of the people out of doors, who pursue their ordinary occupations, and wear their everyday attire. It is quite a novelty to have ... ...rs than the mode of travelling they had just relinquished, came out of his entertainment, 293 Charles Dickens But still the Major, blunt and tough as... ...nd Co. were his cooks, and had provided that dainty morsel for his holiday entertainment; Diogenes shaken off, rolled over and over in the dust, got u... ...ajor’s drink. But on this occasion, Major Bagstock, even amidst these many occupations, found time to be social; and his so- ciality consisted in exce...

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...repared to retire. But he seemed to offer so lively a promise of fur- ther entertainment that I was indisposed to part with him, and suggested that we... ...dozen paternally tender questions as to her health, her state of mind, her occupations, and the progress of her embroidery, which he examined mi- nute...

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...uried episode of more than a quarter of a century ago. I should have found entertainment more—what shall I call it?—more contemporaneous. I should hav... ...me sit near her, and she asked me a dozen questions about my health and my occupations. “I live in the past,” I said. “I go into the galleries, into t...

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...han five minutes since. The people are still quietly pursuing their ordinary occupations; but there is a wildness in their eyes, and an unwonted rigid... ...umed to exhibit, for hire, music, or dancing, or any spe cies of theatrical entertainment, without a licence, should be considered a vagabond, and tr... ... of the nobility and gentry as had a taste for ostlering, and with houses of entertainment furnished in the most expensive and handsome style. It woul...

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...l things was in the heavy air: not only the influence of that par- ticular entertainment, but the suggestion of the wide hurry of pleasure which in Lo... ...ears before; asked him about every- thing, his health, his plans, his late occupations, the new book. “When will it be out -soon, soon, I hope? Splend...

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...ose ourselves on knitting and sewing,—these, I suppose, must be femi nine occupations, for the present. By and by, perhaps, when our individual adapt... ...to the sisterhood. But they gave us credit for imbuing the ordinary rustic occupations with a kind of religious po etry, insomuch that our very cow y... ...appeared. I observed that he was elaborately dressed, as if for some grand entertainment. My dislike for this man was infi nite. At that moment it am... ...out which he often lurked. It was a reputable place enough, affording good entertainment in the way of meat, drink, and fumigation; and there, in my y... ...he audience now began to be impatient; they signified their desire for the entertainment to commence by thump of sticks and stamp of boot heels. Nor w...

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... delicate and fastidious person. Of old, more than once, she had gone, for entertainment’s sake and in bril- liant company, to a fair in a provincial ... ...ncial town. It seemed to her now that she was at an enormous fair—that the entertainment and the desagrements were very much the same. She found herse... ...ere rising again into a certain distinctness. “You have new interests, new occupations,” he went on. “I don’t know that I can say that you have new du... ...id the logs, Eugenia, who was terribly bored, found a quarter of an hour’s entertainment in sitting and watching them blaze and sputter. She had thoug...

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...ee, woman,— VOLUMNIA: Now the red pestilence strike all trades in Rome, And occupations perish! CORIOLANUS: What, what, what! ... ...r you: pray, go to the door. [Exit.] CORIOLANUS: I have deserved no better entertainment, In being Coriolanus. [Re enter second Servingman .] Second...

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...ress a wish. He decorates my apartments; he spends enor- mous sums upon my entertainments; my servants, my op- era-box, all external matters are maint... ...which they have too much in those who have none; they cannot imagine other occupations, other ends in life than their own. When a lover has vanquished...

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...atness; and every one of the manifold articles con nected with his manifold occupations is to be found in its own particular place. Until within the ... ...ss with the thought. My brain is in a whirl again. You know his address, his occupations, his mode of life,—are acquainted, per haps, with his inmost... ...ey), the tak ing from it as many papers as will furnish forth our evening’s entertainment, and arranging in the recess such new contributions as have...

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... contrast. It was a character that Albinia could not as yet fathom. In all occupations and amusements, Sophy followed the lead of her elder sister, an... ...t send him safely out fishing, she must be at hand to invent pleasures and occupations for him; and the worst of it was, that the girls grudged her at... ...ry happy, make themselves very weary of each other, by discarding ordinary occupations, and reducing themselves to needlework and small talk. Albinia ... ...little nec- essary to him that she had not learnt to make her pursuits and occupations subservient to his convenience. As long as the drive took place... ...r person have won instead of repelling confidence? Had her multiplicity of occupations made her give but divided attention to the more important home ... ...le attendance. ‘But,’ said Mr. Dusautoy, ‘it is the worship of God, not an entertainment to please man—it is all nonsense to talk of its answering or ... ...e chance of improving, promising to come and fetch her for any part of the entertainment; and her father told her that he had looked to her as his chi... ...As it concluded she found that Mr. Kendal had been watching her, with much entertainment, and she was glad to take his arm, and assure herself that he... ...eing betrayed into wrangling. Mr. O’More devoted himself to the old lady’s entertainment, he amused her with droll stories, and played backgammon with...

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... servant,’ said Rose; ‘could you not leave him with her?’ ‘She has her own occupations to attend to; and besides, she 21 Anne Brontë is too old to ru... ...moaning round me and howling through the ruinous old chambers, no books or occupations can represss 44 The Tenant of Wildfell Hall the dismal thought... ... quite ashamed of my new-sprung distaste for coun- try life. All my former occupations seem so tedious and dull, my former amusements so insipid and u... ...III AUGUST 25TH.—I am now quite settled down to my usual routine of steady occupations and quiet amusements—toler- ably contented and cheerful, but st... ...u see more temperate men sitting down to enjoy themselves at that splendid entertainment which you are unable to taste?’ ‘Most true, my patron saint; ... ...ogether as many of the country gentry as were within reach to meet us. The entertainment was very well got up; but I could not help thinking about the... ...try life, I suppose I have those friends to thank for it. Their tastes and occupations are similar to his, and I don’t see why his conduct should awak... ...und is not hardened by frost; so that he is not wholly dependent on me for entertainment. But it is now January; spring is approaching; and, I repeat,...

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...le visitors, who, professing only to come as parents and guardians, expect entertainment for themselves, as well as instruction for those who had rath... ...e chanced to be reading—she talked of little else, she neglected her daily occupations, and was in a kind of trance for about three weeks. At length s... ...pending the evening together. Phyllis, a little reassured, went to her own occupations. She took out a large heavy volume, laid it on the window- seat... ...ily could like to go—she had thought that Miss Weston was wiser. Her daily occupations were irk- some—she was cross to Phyllis. It made her very angry... ...ton. It was only that Lily’s own mind had been turned away from her former occupations, and that she did not like to resume them. She had often promis...

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...how got up to amuse us. Boom! the gun fired at the end of the funny little entertainment. The women and the balconies, the beggars and the walking Mur... ...done honour to the first establishment in London. We all left the house of entertainment joyfully, glad to get out of the sun-burnt city and go HOME. ... ... which detained J-, who is a town-bred man, from his natural pleasures and occupations in London; where his family don’t hear from him, where his room...

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... would have dared to rummage. All this might ultimately be for Henrietta’s entertainment, but at present it did not much conduce towards it, as she wa... ...on her, participating in all her pleasures, or rather giving her favourite occupations double zest, by their being for him, for his amuse- ment. She r... ... about mourning, or to get Geoffrey’s room ready for him. And in all these occupations she wanted Beatrice to consult, or to sympathise, 202 Henriett... ... to see him depart to pursue his education, a whole circle of pursuits and occupations had sprung up around her, and given her the happiness of feelin...