Almost all the names submitted are those of young lawyers, though I have not hesitated to include the names of gentlemen pursuing other avocations when I have learned of their personal qualifications for the task contemplated.
My other pressing avocations demanded imperiously my presence in quarters where I could be of more service.
I could, I found, make no more of him that day, and my other avocationsrequired my departure.
In the event of bad weather, a small whari close at hand serves as a kitchen, the Maori usually following all culinary avocations in the open air in front of his hut.
On such occasions many thousand men are suddenly smitten with the gold fever, and their ordinary avocations are at once abandoned.
In a simple little forest hut, whose inhabitants are engaged in avocations that necessarily imply the closest daily intimacy, the stroke of death must fall with redoubled severity, as he strikes down some of the dearest and best beloved.
With his usually impulsive determination, Herschel immediately cut himself free from all his musical avocations at Bath, and at once entered on the task of making and erecting the great telescopes at Windsor.
Maxims of extreme antiquity show how the avocations of the husbandman are to be guided by the movements of the heavenly bodies.
Because he is a citizen, and that is one of the avocations open to every citizen; and no State can abridge his right to pursue it.
Such an act would abridge the rights of all colored citizens, by denying them admission into one of the avocations which this court has declared is alike open to every one.
The Legislature may undoubtedly prescribe qualifications for the office, to which he must conform, as it may, where it has exclusive jurisdiction, prescribe qualifications for the pursuit of the ordinary avocations of life.
While the painter was pursuing his professional avocations with honour and profit, they were secretly busy with machinations against his life.
Indeed, things came to such a pass that at last an order was given that tournaments might be held only at the royal pleasure, else the people were disposed to think of nothing else, and to neglect the ordinary avocations of life.
This was the first time for several years that Raymond had been in arms, for of late his avocations had been of a more peaceful nature.
From Udine he shortly returned to Florence, where he again resumed his formeravocations in the ducal gallery, about the period of the commencement of the Bourbon government.
No person was to be seen, as of yore, flitting about, engaged in the numerous avocations of their daily duties.
His avocations as a player had too frequently led him into scenes of revelry.
It is quite remarkable that Jane, apparently, never turned with repugnance from these humble avocations of domestic life.
Her time she devoted, with unremitting diligence, to those literary avocations in which she found so much delight.
Some time prior to the period at which this little history begins, my avocations had been largely increased.
Priest that he was, cut off from love and the avocationsof other men, he would surely find nothing but hurt and suffering among creatures who were all nature, freedom and health.
At length, however, she grew accustomed to Saint-Gildard, and spent a peaceful existence there, engaged in avocations of which she became very fond.
When all avocations are open to woman and she has an opportunity to acquire a competence, she will then be in a position where it will not be humiliating for her to ask the man she loves to share her prosperity.
Perhaps the season of planting or of harvest intervenes, and these necessary avocations must be attended to before the funeral ceremonies can be concluded.
Illustration] The teacher enters upon the duties of his office by a much more sudden transition than is common in the otheravocations and employments of life.
In most of these other avocations there is not the same necessity for limiting the hours which a man may devote to his business.
Mr. Horatio Fitzharding Fitzfunk's formeravocations became intensely irksome--if he served a writ it was no longer a "writ of right.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "avocations" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
