Another man's hobby refuses to stir a peg beyond the door where some buxom lass patted its neck the week before,--a hobby I rode pretty often when I went courting my good wife here!
Riccabocca had secured Lenny Fairfield, and might therefore be considered to have ridden his hobby in the great whirligig with adroitness and success.
One man's hobby has an ill habit of always stopping at the public house!
But it seems he cannot help it: his Hobby is too strong for him; regardless of curb and bridle in this instance.
When on his ultra-democratic hobby Benton always rode very loose in the saddle, and with little knowledge of where he was going.
But for that hobby he would have been a deputy under the Empire, and shone conspicuous beyond a doubt in the Corps Legislatif.
You must see that I cannot stay in Alencon: my mother would beat me, and Madame Lardot rides a hobby of principles; she'll turn me off.
In spite of revolutionary principles, which made a hobby of republican honesty, the management of public business in those days was by no means clean.
Tom, referring to something that had been his uncle's hobby for years--a hobby that had cost the gentleman considerable money.
With the exception of an occasional édition de luxe, or of books scarce only because they ought never to have existed at all, lovers of artistic bookbinding found their hobby almost useless.
Since the first edition of this Handbook was published in 1892 the taste for collecting book-plates has spread with such rapidity that that which was formerly the hobby of a few, has now become the serious pursuit of the many.
Her hobby was honor, a virtue which a cynic has declared is more often found among boys than among girls.
There is a thousand times more enjoyment in doing things well than there is in doing them poorly," Mr. Hobby said.
A man by the name of Hobby lived in one of his father's tenements, and he served the public in the double capacity of parish sexton and school-master.
Mr. Hobbyand Mr. Williams were his only teachers, except his parents.
He presented his side of the difficulty as well as he could, whereupon Mr. Hobby remarked: "Both of you cannot be right.
George always does his work well," Mr. Hobby would say, exhibiting his writing-book to the school.
Your effort is just as commendable as it would have been if it had proved successful," responded Mr. Hobby in a complimentary manner.
It is just as easy to do the best you can as it is to do poorly," Mr. Hobby continued, by way of rebuke and encouragement to dull and careless scholars.
Mr. Hobby sought to arouse dull scholars by encouragement full as much as he did by punishment.
Mr. Hobby will do the best he knows how for George or any other boy," continued Mrs. Washington.
Mr. Hobby continued: "Is it true that some of my boys have been fighting?
His statement was simply a vindication of his side of the trouble, and Mr. Hobby so regarded it.
The Nareskin, with all his knights-companions, drank to an astonishing degree, and we all set off upon hobby horses in full cry out of the castle.
One of the most able and laborious of our recent statesmen--with whom literature was a hobby as well as a pursuit--was the late Sir George Cornewall Lewis.
Doubtless Sir George Lewis rode his hobby too hard, and but for his devotion to study, his useful life would probably have been prolonged.
Miss Hobby came, and on the 21st of May the dictations were resumed.
A moment later, when Miss Hobby returned, he was serene and happy again.
In the talks which we usually had, when the dictations were ended and Miss Hobby had gone, I gathered much that was of still greater value.
Once, after a feverishly impatient search for a few moments, he invited Miss Hobby to leave the room temporarily, so, as he said, that he might swear.
He held his breath as his eyes wandered over the long row of experimental instruments which had been his chief hobby and delight.
Recently he had been in Peru for five months, and had only returned a week ago and again taken up his hobby of wireless.
Edward had collected postage-stamps, and the hobby had, incidentally, helped him wonderfully in his study of geography.
The humorist was not kindly disposed toward autograph collectors, and the fact that in this case the collector aimed to raise the standard of the hobby did not appease him.
I believe that every man must have a hobby that is as different from his regular work as it is possible to be.
My present hobby is to get fit and clean my windows and "bazaar.
Sure," said the Bowery boy doggedly, securely mounted now on his favoritehobby horse.
Burglary," said Wesson, leaning back and taking advantage of a pause, "is the hobby of the sportsman and the life work of the avaricious.
Natively shrewd himself, and even sensuous beneath his mask, Soames had not spent thirty-eight years over his one hobby without knowing something more about pictures than their market values.
A fellow must have a hobby to give him an interest in life," he said.
His hobby is what he calls "picking winners"--men, not horses.
Although boots are about as near a hobby as he has ever got, he is distressed about the shape of his feet, and says that his corns give him a lot of trouble.
Hans meant well; but he had a hobby--a hobby that he did not ride: that does not express it: it rode him.
The first two is the fact that I once had a hobby of collecting coins, and I recognize many specimens; and I know that this one is not a part of the notorious Captain's treasure.
The place was a veritable treasure trove for anyone interested in antiques, and she and her husband were just reveling in their finds, examining every article closely, and showing that their hobby was no mere pose.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "hobby" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: enthusiasm; interest; magpie; pastime; pursuit
