And so my life was determined, and I devoted myself to an avocation which I never liked or honored, and about the very nature of which I have never been able to come to any decided opinion.
We shall not proceed to any details connected with this new avocation to which that lovely maiden lent herself.
The three body-snatchers retraced their steps to the house in the vicinity of the Bird-cage Walk; and the Cracksman and Buffer, having deposited the implements of their avocation in the corner of the front room, took their departure.
He never attempted any dwelling within a circuit of three miles of the General Post Office: his avocation was invariably exercised in the suburbs of London, where the interference of the police was less probable.
Most of the figurantes have been brought up to their avocation from childhood; but I see no reason why you should not learn to acquit yourself well in a very short time.
Beholding that fowler whose avocation was the slaughter of birds, the pigeon honoured him scrupulously according to the rites laid down in the ordinance.
If I say that farming is some one's avocation I mean that he practises it, not regularly, but at odd times.
An avocation is something that calls one away from it.
The book is a handsome one, with a title in red ink; and the author says he took three years to write the novel--of course as an avocation from his vocation in journalism.
Some clerks if asked to describe their avocation would disavow anything so common as a clerkship; they would be 'an accountant'--anything but a clerk.
A man's avocation may be at once his ruin and his exculpation.
I have had no special education or experience as a writer; both my nature and my avocation have led me in other directions.
The latter invites the mind away from the regular avocation and educates it in time to take chances that are likely to turn into setbacks.
If every man was alike and every avocation in life was on a parity, it would be possible to dispose of this subject in a paragraph.
The Wylmots being robbed must be an amusing thing to their acquaintance, and I hope it is as much their pleasure as it seems their avocation to be subjects of general entertainment.
I hope you are all alive after our melancholy parting yesterday, and that you pursued your intended avocation with success.
You would go about your daily avocation unconcerned and unwarned, and then at the moment appointed by an inscrutable Providence for your dissolution--phew!
To stand like Ajax defying the lightning is magnificent, but as a continuous avocation it is wearisome and unprofitable, especially if carried on in a tiny bachelor suite, an eyrie of a place, at the top of a block of flats in Victoria Street.
I find it necessary to pursue my avocation into the hours we generally devote to slumber.
Antoine was a lumberman, and in the pursuit of his avocation he caught a severe cold, which induced a violent inflammation of the bowels, causing very considerable distension and a great deal of pain.
Bennet to the pope with orders to support the avocation to Rome, and he gave him a letter in which he displayed all the resources of his eloquence.
This avocation to Rome," wrote he to Gregory De Casale, "will not only completely alienate the king and his realm from the apostolic see, but will ruin me utterly.
Gardiner and Bryan had just returned to London: they declared that to demand an avocation to Rome was to lose their cause.
The writing of these memoirs served me as a source of avocation for several years.
Every successive art, by which the individual is taught to improve on his fortune, is, in reality, an addition to his private engagements, and a new avocation of his mind from the public.
The bibliomaniac will somewhat envy the avocation of this worthy monk whilst searching over the rich treasures of the Roman archives, from whence he gleaned much valuable information to aid Bede in compiling his history of the English Church.
Vocation andavocation have about equally divided my time and energy during my residence in San Francisco.
No, indeed, I can always make sure of interest and amusement when I have two feet available for service, but I was not cut out for the peaceful avocation of the couch invalid, and I just loathe inaction.
As soon as Miles is able to take control of the store I shall return to my proper avocation of school teaching--that is, always providing there are children to be taught.
The Brahmins maintain that in the almost endless sculptures of that immemorial pagoda, all the trades and pursuits, every conceivable avocation of man, were prefigured ages before any of them actually came into being.
I successfully pursued my avocation of advertising and selling our lands, having an office in Boston and cooperating agents in several states.
It was the grandest and noblest after the avocation of priest.
Less stigma rests upon one who chooses an avocation suited to her own taste and ability.
Within the last seven years, every legislature, every school, every industrial avocation has been reached by it.
The world shows a degree of toleration now toward any young woman who from necessity has engaged in any industrial avocation to which women have not heretofore applied themselves.
It is often so when a man finds his avocation too early.
As to Keller, he was a simple German, by trade a paper-maker and by avocation a scientist of sorts.
Some subjects have a peculiar appeal to persons engaged in a particular occupation or devoted to a particular avocation or amusement.
Avocations--the work which serves as play--should be wisely studied, and some avocation adopted by every girl.
Many girls mistake what may be a pleasant and satisfying avocation for a life work.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "avocation" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: interest; pastime; pursuit
