How To Use Pastime In A Sentence
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The clergyman and his son pricked up their ears at this, photography being with them only a degree less absorbing a pastime than that of walking; Ron awoke suddenly to the remembrance that his half-plate camera had never been unpacked since his arrival; and the three vied with each other in asking questions about the proposed excursion, and in urging that a date should be fixed.
Big Game A Story for Girls
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However, O'Kane's favourite pastime is hillwalking in the Wicklow hills.
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Hare hunting is a cruel and barbaric pastime carried out without respect for our wildlife.
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But as trading standards officers in York revealed this week, it's a national pastime rife with hidden dangers.
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Beauvoir, Alphonse Karr, Émile Souvestre, who, to no small extent individually and to a very great extent when taken in battalion, helped to conquer that supreme reputation for amusingness, for pastime, which the French novel has so long enjoyed throughout Europe.
A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century
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Browsing the shops is the main pastime: the stores offer rural knick-knacks and antiques as well as a fair amount of New Age wares such as quartz crystals, incense burners and Indian rugs.
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It turns out that antiquing is a pastime that fits in perfectly with that motto.
PrairieMod Monday
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Fuentes points out the Hispanic influence on one of New Yorkers' favorite pastimes: baseball.
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Tracing the growth of the border is a pleasant pastime, a game of history in which amorini, grotesques and nymphs are the personages, and garlands of flowers their perpetual accessories, but first comes the time when there were no borders, the Middle Ages.
The Tapestry Book
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On our way from school in spring, a favourite pastime was to set fire to clumps of furze that grew in fields along the road.
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Businessmen, enervated by the pressures of city life, sought spiritual as well as physical refreshment in the new pastime of bushwalking.
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Had it somehow occurred to him that swimsuit modeling (if you can call microscopic shreds of fabric "swimwear") has absolutely nothing to do with sports, unless you count the "sport" of girl-watching, which is a passé, politically incorrect and pathetic pastime, especially for middle-aged men?
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I only wish I had the nerve to try some of the more hair-raising pastimes enjoyed by some of our older citizens, but am far too much of a coward and layabout!
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Here and there came a stream of warm light through an open door, and within, the Mongolians were gathered round the gambling-tables, playing fan-tan, or leaving the seductions of their favourite pastime, to glide soft-footed to the many cook-shops, where enticing-looking fowls and turkeys already cooked were awaiting purchasers.
The Mystery of a Hansom Cab
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Hunting the eland is a common pastime; and no craft is required to insure success, since these creatures are almost as tame as domestic cattle; so tame that the horseman usually rides into the middle of the drove, and, singling out the fattest bull, shoots him down without any difficulty.
Quadrupeds, What They Are and Where Found A Book of Zoology for Boys
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Swimming is my favorite pastime.
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Baseball is not a national pastime among the Dutch, who prefer soccer and the mixed-gender Euro wackiness of korfball.
Tyee - Home
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He single-handedly took sailing from a gentle pastime into an athletic sport.
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Qat, or catha edulis, has become the national pastime in this poor Arab country of 19 million, but one many experts say is ravaging Yemen's frail economy and sucking up precious water.
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Fashion design, she feared, would become the pastime of a privileged elite.
Times, Sunday Times
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Hunting with dogs is a cruel, barbaric and unnecessary pastime.
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Deck Quoits played with quoits made from rope has been a popular pastime on cruise ships for decades.
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Good financial housekeeping may not be the most enjoyable pastime but it can be satisfying.
The Sun
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Polls show that although only a third of Spaniards back a ban on bullfighting, two thirds have no interest in the pastime.
Times, Sunday Times
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Gardening is our fastest growing pastime and the demand for composts is greater than ever - still largely met by commercial peat extraction.
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Eating out is the national pastime in France.
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The favorite pastime on this Hawaiian vacation was torching doobies and staring out at the horizon for hours on end.
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Blowing bubbles is a favourite pastime of many children, but not one normally associated with school.
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It was thought," says Nashe, in his Quaternio, "a kind of solecism, and to savour of effeminacy, for a young gentleman in the flourishing time of his age to creep into a coach, and to shroud himself from wind and weather: our great delight was to out-brave the blustering boreas upon a great horse; to arm and prepare ourselves to go with Mars and Bellona into the field was our sport and pastime; coaches and caroches we left unto them for whom they were first invented, for ladies and gentlemen, and decrepit age and impotent people.
Bracebridge Hall
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The harmonograph was a popular 19th-century parlor pastime that created art similar to a Spirograph, but with a much wider range of variables.
Boing Boing
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They were cooked until the white but not the yolk was set, allowing me to indulge in my favourite Sunday pastime of dipping the brittle, breadstick-like crust into the pool of rich, runny yellowness spreading over my plate.
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One of their pastimes was to play skittles with round stones.
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Swimming is a national pastime, and the pools in every city are packed with swimmers.
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What better base for tweets than a country where the national pastime is chatter?
Times, Sunday Times
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The steep asphalt path at the west end of the ruins of St Mary's Abbey made a splendid toboggan slide, and the invigorating pastime was thoroughly enjoyed.
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More excitingly, perhaps, sand-yachting is a popular pastime.
Times, Sunday Times
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This gives him ample time to indulge in ad-libbing, a pastime of which he seems inordinately fond.
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Maybe we should officially recognise pain as the national pastime.
Times, Sunday Times
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The popular playground pastime of the Eighties is making a comeback - this time with a difference.
Times, Sunday Times
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In "hypermiling," a quirky new competitive pastime, the winning drivers have surpassed 150 miles per gallon in mass-produced hybrids.
Efficient Drivers Cut Emissions, but Stir Up Hot Air
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Most of their players are casual competitors who treat the sport as a pleasant pastime and an easy-going way of relaxation.
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It is rather a dangerous pastime, Mr. Lenoir, this medalling fancy of yours," he said.
Jack Harkaway's Boy Tinker Among The Turks Book Number Fifteen in the Jack Harkaway Series
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We pay for this frivolity, this triviality, this nugacity of a pastime.
Times, Sunday Times
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And truely this rage of loue was the only meane to dulcorate and make swete the bitter gal of griefe whiche those twoo louers felte, defatigated almoste with tedious trauaile, iudging their wearinesse a pastime and pleasure, being guided by that vnconstante captaine, whiche maketh dolts and fooles wyse men, emboldeneth the weake hearted and cowardes, fortifieth the feeble, and to be shorte, vntieth the pursses and bagges of couetous Carles and miserable Misers.
The Palace of Pleasure, Volume 1
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Roger used the time to indulge in the macho southern French pastime of sipping pastis, a strong, sweet, aniseed - flavoured spirits to which you add copious quantities of ice and cold water.
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One of their pastimes was to play skittles with round stones.
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She loves to cuddle up with you and of course her favourite pastime is catnapping in the sunshine.
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They cover subjects such as Sports and Pastimes (Furry Dance, coracle fishing), 'Our Heritage of Skill '(The Cheese Maker, The Hand-Block Printer), and 'Our National Parks'.
Being Bould
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The game is so simple that many pubs stage it simply as an informal pastime rather than as a competitive game.
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From cards to boats to horses, the townies of Oxford seemed only too willing to indulge the students in morally questionable pastimes.
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Eating out is the national pastime in France.
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The so-called love, just feel lonely pastime.
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Good review pour moi Kristin...my favorite pastime is indeed taking a book to the local buvette and enjoying the read, the coffee and the scenery...
Amusette - French Word-A-Day
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You can tell a judge is popular when an usher at his court fashions a humorous painting of him enjoying his favourite pastime of gardening.
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For 30 years, gallery hopping has been one of our favorite romantic pastimes.
Christianity Today
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Baseball might be America's favorite pastime, but in Afghanistan, national sports take on a more hematic flair.
Inside The Strange, Bloody Sport Of 'Goat-Grabbing'
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I feel sure as time passes by more and more will join the growing numbers in this wonderful pastime.
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A time-honored pastime among French Canadian families in Quebec is ‘sugaring off.’
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Mountaineering has engendered more fatuous comment than most human pastimes, much of it from mountaineers themselves.
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Another pastime that has kept me away from the keyboard is a fascinating book I've been reading.
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But by criminalising the taking of any bird's egg, our legislators inadvertently cut off one route in which many of today's older naturalists learned their trade, the schoolboy pastime of "egging".
Enjoying the natural world
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In the following article he attempts to convey some of his enthusiasm for his pastime.
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Baseball has been the national pastime in America for a hundred years or more.
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Composed of a few simple parts in a rugged design, the Cousteau aqualung transformed diving from a dangerous pastime for a small number of daredevils into an accessible and surprisingly safe hobby engaged in by millions.
Jacques Cousteau: Tech Pioneer
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What better base for tweets than a country where the national pastime is chatter?
Times, Sunday Times
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By the early 19th century it had become a popular pastime for young ladies and was enthusiastically recommended by annuals and other periodicals.
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DIY is the nation's favourite pastime, even ranking above drinking, and women can now wield a power tool better than they can a food mixer.
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He is far from alone in voicing unease at the nation's most popular pastime.
Times, Sunday Times
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Their memory was perpetuated in later centuries by antiquarians such as Joseph Strutt, whose Sports and Pastimes of England was published in 1801.
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Or maybe she wants an excuse to indulge in her favourite pastime - making curtains.
Times, Sunday Times
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I have lots to say on this and also on another popular pastime in Madras, malling.
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If the grown man at times takes an in* terest in the amusements and sports of the child, and mixes in his pastimes for completely anbending his mind, that is no dishonour to him: but if he do so with manly earnestness, treat in« significant objects as weighty concerns, and re« solves in one and the same view to support the character of the child and the man, will that re - dound to his honour?
Sermons on Prevalent Errors, and Vices and on Various Other Topics
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Standing at the stem and watching her wide wake stretch to the horizon is a favorite pastime.
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I would as soon be shot in the hand with an escopette ball as drink the quantity of wine and eat the quantity of food that I have seen even women and children dispose of, as if it were mere pastime, on these railway journeys.
The Land of Thor
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As ever, it's our pastimes' deepest virtues that incite the most venomous evangelical slander.
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So keyboarding it was and his music became more than just a pastime.
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Gone is the person who would engage in a sport or activity as a pastime rather than a profession.
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Nights out at one of the bars in Stanley are another favourite pastime.
Times, Sunday Times
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The main pastime in town was cruising the strip, so we headed over there in the afternoon to see what we could find.
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What differentiates literature from other human activities or pastimes?
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But it was long ere these scandalous and immoral sports could be abrogated; — the rude multitude continued attached to their favourite pastimes, and, both in England and Scotland, the mitre of the Catholic — the rochet of the reformed bishop — and the cloak and band of the Calvinistic divine — were, in turn, compelled to give place to those jocular personages, the Pope of
The Abbot
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Defining and analyzing humor is a pastime of humorless people.
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Writing was his favourite pastime, pedantic, unpoetic stuff dealing with politics, history, education.
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The old ruling Afrikaners saw the nation embrace their favorite pastime, helping make them feel part of this new constr uct.
South Africa: After the Vuvuzelas Go Quiet
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The latter pastime, of jumping into the sea from cliff edges, is called tombstoning by the people who do it, but ‘bloody stupid’ by onlookers.
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It's a popular sport with parents in America where the inexpensiveness of the kit and the relative lack of injury is a pleasant contrast to some of the more bruising national pastimes on offer.
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It is an ideal pastime, an opportunity to socialise and make new friends in a spirit of camaraderie.
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Hunting, falconry, fishing, rowing and sailing were all considered suitable pastimes for a freeman or noble, which left the more ignoble sports of grappling with others to the lower classes.
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As usual the hunters show complete disregard, even contempt for people who live in this village many of whom, like me, are totally opposed to this wicked and barbaric pastime.
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The ancient Greeks employed whole-body sun exposure or heliotherapy in the treatment of disease, and lying nude in the sun was a popular pastime.
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One of his greatest pastimes was looking at photo albums and books of family history.
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Now: Happy that I refer to my favorite pastime as "freediving," nor "snorkeling
Knowing .NET
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Clinton's other favourite pastimes include basketball, reading, and peanut butter and banana sandwiches.
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Music, dancing, drinking, love and general merriment are more than simple pastimes.
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I would that were the worst," replied Marmaduke, solemnly, and under his breath; and therewith he repeated to Nicholas the adventure on the pastime-ground, the warnings of the timbrel-girls, and the "awsome" learning and strange pursuits of his host.
The Last of the Barons — Volume 01
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Despite the assiduity and rigor of the performers, modern dance was generally promoted and received as a pastime for females.
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The river swollen by autumnal rains, deluged the low lands, and Adrian in his favourite boat is employed in the dangerous pastime of plucking the topmost bough from a submerged oak.
I.5
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Sport to me is a pastime or activity where all of the people or animals enjoy the activity.
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It was thought," says Nashe, in his Quaternio, "a kind of solecism, and to savour of effeminacy, for a young gentleman in the flourishing time of his age to creep into a coach, and to shroud himself from wind and weather: our great delight was to outbrave the blustering Boreas upon a great horse; to arm and prepare ourselves to go with Mars and Bellona into the field, was our sport and pastime; coaches and caroches we left unto them for whom they were first invented, for ladies and gentlemen, and decrepit age and impotent people.
Bracebridge Hall, or The Humorists
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Baseball rightfully is the nation's pastime.
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But he admits his pastime is in contrast to that of the stereotypical modern-day footballer.
The Sun
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This is the McGill Trivia Club, an organization dedicated to the most worthy pastime of answering difficult questions based on factoids from a wide range of categories.
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Just as rewarding is the chance to turn something you see as a favourite pastime into a career.
The Sun
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Cycling, riding, motor sports and hunting were all far more popular pastimes.
Calcio: A History of Italian Football
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Learning should no longer be an elitist pastime for the chosen few.
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She cites hiking as her favourite pastime.
Times, Sunday Times
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You can tell a judge is popular when an usher at his court fashions a humorous painting of him enjoying his favourite pastime of gardening.
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The hillwalking which claimed Robin Cook's life yesterday was a pastime with many allegories to his political career.
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His childhood pastimes were playing chess, reading music, and playing the guitar.
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Her main aim, she said, was some high-end shopping, including a crocodile handbag from a Bangkok store, a pastime once limited to monied Hong Kong businessmen.
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Suddenly, whole battalions of people with weird, rat-like faces were able to partake in a pastime previously denied them.
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The children also took part in Victorian pastimes such as Throw the Horseshoe, a coconut shy, a tin can alley, marbles and hoop the duck.
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Cycling, riding, motor sports and hunting were all far more popular pastimes.
Calcio: A History of Italian Football
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His favourite pastime is singing ghazals, and he has penned many in various languages.
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Photography is her favourite pastime.
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his main pastime is gambling
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Indeed it had never been a favourite pastime of hers.
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What was a pleasant national pastime has suddenly been divided down intensely party political lines.
Times, Sunday Times
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Even when gambling became above board in the eyes of the law, it was still frowned upon as either the pastime of high-rolling decadent playboys or the ruin of feckless working-class punters.
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I enjoy life, and one of my favourite pastimes is eating and drinking with friends.
Times, Sunday Times
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However the fact that these two shadow-box grottoes were made by mature women suggests that shellwork was an amusing pastime for women of education and wealth.
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According to the all-time list, assault is the favourite crime of pro sports people - 17 arrests described in detail - with narcotics, burglary, counterfeiting and murder among the other top pastimes.
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Sitting in a scalding hot bath with naked strangers sounds more like punishment than a popular pastime.
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Karate is no longer just a pastime for a select few, as young and old discover the discipline of martial arts.
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Games are another excellent pastime, a deck of cards or a board game might be some fun.
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After all, skiing is an energetic pastime, one in which people laugh, shout and fall over a lot.
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The popular urban street pastime called Double Dutch, in which competitors jump between two ropes, is getting more recognition, becoming an officially sanctioned sport in New York City high schools.
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With characteristic wit, he drew on another of his interests to illustrate the nature of the apo koinou construction used in Old English poetry: "I went out beagling is my favourite pastime.
Education news, comment and analysis | guardian.co.uk
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Humanitarians and Evangelicals sought to abolish pastimes such as cock-fighting and bear-baiting.
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But this weekend perhaps, the return of television favourite Come Dancing will help more people discover - or rediscover - a pastime that involves half a million devotees, stepping-out every week to tangos and cha-cha-chas.
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There are drawbacks, but if you like a pastoral life, with rural pastimes, this is the place.
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The sidewalks were empty of pedestrians in a city where walking is both a pastime and a necessity.
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In 1559, a Venetian government official transcribed a report by a Persian traveller who observed the popular Chinese pastime of drinking tea.
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Target shooting is one of my favourite pastimes - as long as the target is not a living thing.
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I was grousing about R.'s stubborn refusal to accept the new realities of her life and to find some new pastimes that match her abilities.
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The popular playground pastime of the Eighties is making a comeback - this time with a difference.
Times, Sunday Times
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sailing is her favorite pastime
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Indeed the first brain-derived substance found to bind to our cannabis receptors was christened "anandamide", a derivative of the Sanskrit word for internal high may thus serve as an innocent recreational pastime in an uncaring world.
Sydney Indymedia - Comments
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These can roughly be classified as coming from work, hobbies and pastimes.
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So he knows that it is almost the same every time, but the pastime is a little different in each kalpa.
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Reading and tennis are my favourite pastimes.
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It is not the easiest of pastimes to enjoy.
Times, Sunday Times
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He also still enjoys playing golf and shinty on occasion, a pastime shared with his half-brother.
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And our name shall be a cannon-shot, before which your Lodge, in the pleasantness whereof ye take pastime, shall be blown into ruins; and we will be as a wedge to split asunder the King's Oak into billets to heat a brown baker's oven; and we will dispark your park, and slay your deer, and eat them ourselves, neither shall you have any portion thereof, whether in neck or haunch.
Woodstock; or, the Cavalier
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A spirited spinster's lively account of a sojourn in 19th century Tenby takes a fresh look at life in the town and the pastimes of its many Victorian visitors.
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Hunting has nothing to do with pest control and everything to do with a cruel, barbaric pastime.
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Tossing is not the sort of pastime any fellow would choose for fun, not if he were the party to be tossed, though it is a beanfeast for the onlookers.
Campaign Pictures of the War in South Africa (1899-1900) Letters from the Front
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His quest for a wife had developed into a national pastime.
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My main pastime for many years was change-ringing.
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One of his favourite pastimes was a spot of fishing on the River Suck near his home.
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Browsing the shops is the main pastime: the stores offer rural knick-knacks and antiques as well as a fair amount of New Age wares such as quartz crystals, incense burners and Indian rugs.
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Like it or not, poker is America's new favorite pastime.
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It is heresy, sacrilege, a pockmark upon the face of our National Pastime!
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In their allowed pleasures and pastimes, let them wear that spiritual hauberk which is invulnerable to the darts of the wicked; let them steadfastly set their faces against whatever thy word disallows; and, should fiery trial and temptation beset them, enable them, having done all, to stand.
Jacques Bonneval
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Homer Simpson's description of America's favorite pastime is more true than ever after all these years, and to kick off its 22nd season premiere, "The Simpsons" continues to celebrate the medium.
'Glee' And 11 Other TV Shows Parodied On 'The Simpsons' (PICS, VIDEO)
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pastimer"; that he has no literary quality; that he deserves at best to take his chance with the novelists from Sue to Gaboriau who have been or will be dismissed with rather short shrift elsewhere.
A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century
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This sport has too long been perverted from diversion and innocent pastime to excessive gaming and public dissipation; the increasing evil our magistracy ought to suppress.
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For men, cockfighting, partridge fighting, and pigeon flying (and betting on the outcome) are favorite pastimes.
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Because most Italians live with their parents until they marry, sex in cars is a national pastime.
The Monster of Florence
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One famous pastime is drinking maté, a Paraguayan tea made from holly leaves.
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Yet in an increasingly sedentary society, riding is a healthy pastime which is growing in popularity, particularly among the young.
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“Poet-baiting” became a popular pastime in Dundee, but McGonagall seemed oblivious to the general opinion of his poems, even when his audience were pelting him with eggs and vegetables.
May « 2008 « poetry dispatch & other notes from the underground
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Trade card collecting became a popular pastime during the 1880s until chromos were replaced by color magazine advertisements in the 1890s.
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Cycling, riding, motor sports and hunting were all far more popular pastimes.
Calcio: A History of Italian Football
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Beer: it's a national pastime, a vice, a Saturday night solace, a problem to be twelve-stepped over and now, it's a newsgroup.
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But it was a pastime which landed him a spell in one of Greece's most notorious prisons.
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They single-handedly led the resurgence of our National Pastime and they did so by awing us with their superhuman strength.
Adam Flomenbaum: The Nude Athlete
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He's an unashamed Munro bagger, and if that pastime has come to be regarded by some purists as not really being what the noble art of climbing is all about, Holstead is having none of it.
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Sparkly stripes swirl around people as they mix jazzercise and a favorite childhood pastime — hula hooping — to create a whole new level of aerobics.
Hooping.org | Blog | Hoopdance Spins Into Popularity at University of California Santa Barbara
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Most of their players are casual competitors who treat the sport as a pleasant pastime and an easy-going way of relaxation.
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Roger used the time to indulge in the macho southern French pastime of sipping pastis, a strong, sweet, aniseed - flavoured spirits to which you add copious quantities of ice and cold water.
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If AE is about apodictic certainty, then it is not a science, but a pastime.
Austrian Economists and the mainstream, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
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This can take the form of going away for the weekend, seeing some friends or pursuing a pastime or new activity.
POSITIVE THINKING: Everything you have always known about positive thinking but were afraid to put into practice
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The pastime of "tailing" a bull is somewhat singular.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 16, February, 1859
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Wikipedia has picked up this new trend and even describes the phenomenon of "passive smirting" as "the pastime for those who stand outside with friends or colleagues but do not actually smoke themselves." absolutely changed:
‘absolutely intercultural!’
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His coldly rational attitude to sex as a harmless pastime alienates his son and threatens to tear his research team apart.
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You could make new friends and discover an interesting pastime for the Winter.
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Aesthetic pursuits, sporty activity and creative pastimes are rejuvenating.
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The Judies wore mortar-boards, and it was an enjoyable pastime sending these spinning into space during one of the usual _rencontres_ in the High Street.
The White Feather
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Vive la gaite de coeur et la bell pastime, vive la beau France et revive ma cher Empreur.
The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 5 The Letters of Charles and Mary Lamb
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Napster thus couldn't plead ignorance of its users' piratical pastimes.
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Fuentes points out the Hispanic influence on one of New Yorkers' favorite pastimes: baseball.
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Humanitarians and Evangelicals sought to abolish pastimes such as cock-fighting and bear-baiting.
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Etiquette and good manners are not a middle-class pastime or an optional extra for nice people.
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The so-called love, just feel lonely pastime.
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I believe that all these mummings may be traced to the disguisings which formed so popular an amusement in the Middle Ages, and that the name applied in Wales to this remnant of our ancient pastimes is nothing more than a compound of our English adjective "merry" and a corruption of the
Notes and Queries, Number 20, March 16, 1850
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Like it or not, poker is America's new favorite pastime.
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To relieve the strain she turned to painting, a pastime she has loved since childhood.
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The event will be held on Saturday, April 16, and will also feature a wealth of objects collected during the Victorian era when exploration was a fashionable pastime of the wealthy.
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For context, we need to look back to November 2008, when a group of Long Island teens attacked and killed Ecuadorian immigrant Marcelo Lucero as part of a destructive pastime that they called "beaner hopping" - slang the teens used for tracking down and assaulting Latinos.
Ted Hesson: Feud Over Hate Crime Enforcement on Long Island Signals Problems
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Retirement also gave him time to indulge in skiing, racket sports, golf, hillwalking and, perhaps his favourite pastime, yachting.
Times, Sunday Times
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But he admits his pastime is in contrast to that of the stereotypical modern-day footballer.
The Sun
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Aesthetic pursuits, sporty activity and creative pastimes are rejuvenating.
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There's nothing redeeming in softball, a pastime that seems to attract the greasiest, worst dressed residents of local areas to neighbourhood parks.
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His favourite pastime of potholing had a close association with waterfalls.
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Golf has a certain amount of power because so many people in important positions enjoy the pastime and its curious atmosphere.
Times, Sunday Times
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The right is ‘to indulge in lawful sports and pastimes’ while avoiding the need to prove an immemorial custom or legal origin which would establish a class A or class B green.
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Solo football and individual cricket never took off as national pastimes either.
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I believe that one-third out of the number of days in the year are “kept holy,” or rather, _kept stupid_, in honour of the saints; no great portion of the time thus set apart is spent in religious exercises, and the people don’t betake themselves to any such animating pastimes as might serve to strengthen the frame, or invigorate the mind, or exalt the taste.
Eothen, or, Traces of Travel Brought Home from the East