How little his official occupations really interested him is evident from the fact that a few months after he had changed his vocation he could not remember the nature of his work in the Ministry of Justice.
Your occupations with Kolya may be somewhat heavier than my theory classes, but still I say, Write!
From morning till night he had to conform to his will in all the trifling details of daily existence, and this was the more unbearable because their ideas with regard to hours and occupations differed in most respects.
We inhabit the Carthusian monastery of Valdemosa, a really sublime place, which I have hardly the time to admire, so many occupations have I with my children, their lessons, and my work.
The collection illustrates the former life and present occupationsof the owner.
The precise nature of Ivan's occupations during these wanderings I could not ascertain; for, with all his openness of manner, he was extremely reticent regarding his commercial affairs.
These occupations do not prevent an almost incessant hum of talk, frequent discordant attempts to sing in chorus, and occasional quarrels requiring the energetic interference of the old woman who controls the proceedings.
When I had gained a clear notion of the family-life and occupations of the peasantry, I turned my attention to the constitution of the village.
Very often the peasants find industrial occupations without leaving home, for various industries which do not require complicated machinery are practised in the villages by the peasants and their families.
The lunatic shares in the usual life of the family; his occupations and employment are theirs, his little cares and enjoyments are the same as theirs.
Here the artisan finds employment in various handicrafts, the agricultural labourer renews his commerce with the soil, and the female plies her needle or pursues her accustomed occupations in the laundry or the kitchen.
Neither must we omit from the ranks of unhealthy town occupations the squalid race of clerks, whose monotonous occupation and posture perpetually fixed in the form of a Z, renders them a very unhealthy class of men.
A very interesting inquiry, and one of vital importance to the actuaries of fire-insurance companies, is the relative liability to fire of different classes of occupations and residences.
What we do not know, and what we want to know, is the proportion the tenements in which such trades and occupations are carried on, bear to the total number of houses in the metropolis.
As we ascend in the social scale, it would naturally be supposed that we should find the value of life greater, and occupations more healthy.
They would, it is true, be better employed in occupations more in accordance with their previous habits; but these cannot be found for them, and labour of any kind is preferable to idleness.
Our remarks hitherto have been directed entirely to coal mines and colliers, as these are by far the most extensive industrial occupations of the kind.
My occupations at this age were principally the mathematics, and most of the branches of study appertaining to that science.
The young man was constantly employed out of doors, and the girl in various laborious occupations within.
In this manner I distributed my occupations when I first arrived; but, as I proceeded in my labour, it became every day more horrible and irksome to me.
In the evening, the young girl and her companion were employed in various occupations which I did not understand; and the old man again took up the instrument, which produced the divine sounds that had enchanted me in the morning.
My father made no reproach in his letters; and only took notice of my silence by inquiring into my occupations more particularly than before.
The sole condition or limitation which society may rightfully impose upon the eccentricities of individuals, is the equal right of all others to be unmolested and unobstructed in their occupations and enjoyments.
I call mine a very comprehensive taste; I like all people whose occupations have to do with land; I like soldiers and sailors, and the three learned professions, as they call them.
Margaret had been thinking of him only a moment before, and remembering his inquiry into her probable occupations at home.
Trade, finance and commerce, by producing a regular flow of abundant income, brought into existence a new field of occupations and a new class--business and the businessmen.
Associated with this range of bourgeoisoccupations and often closely identified with it are owners of family farms, tenants and hired hands.
In every field, some of the best adjusted go as far as their interests and capacities carry them and then shift over into other occupations which, in turn, offer them more chances to employ their talents to greater advantage.
An offender who discloses his accomplices and their occupations and places of abode and discovers where they may be found and they are subsequently convicted, shall be pardoned.
One of the principal occupations of their censors was to keep a watch on the vagabonds.
The inexhaustible occupations of a library will only present to such a most dreary solitude.
Thus a learned man in the occupations of study falls blind--a circumstance even now not read without sympathy.
But the Negro has lost many of the occupations which were particularly his own, and is outclassed in others--not through prejudice but through the faster pace of his competitors.
The historical, social, and legal aspects of industrial occupations affecting health, by a number of experts.
She was sure that any report of it coming to Lady Emily's ears, would greatly impede her recovery; for she instinctively felt that her illness had something to do with the questionableoccupations in the library.
His dull, spiritless occupations wore on his already shattered health and spirits.
Of all my occupations at this period I am free to confess I liked that of compiling the Newgate Lives and Trials the best; that is, after I had surmounted a kind of prejudice which I originally entertained.
It is customary in that country for sons to follow the occupationsof their fathers.
The interest in philosophical and theological questions was perhaps even greater than among the Brahmans, and they were recognized not as parerga to a life of business or amusement, but as occupations in themselves.
To abandon wrong occupations and get one's living by a right occupation.
The occupations securing the greatest percentage of employment are those most removed from the protecting influences of that Congressional bill of fare called tariff.
Through all these occupations the thought never left me,--what could be the object of Sir Dudley's continued voyaging?
My own very varied and somewhat dissimilar occupations were certainly far less the result of any preconceived plan or scheme than the mere "turn-up" of the rolling die of Fortune.
The occupations in which I passed my days greatly contributed to sustain this pleasant illusion.
It is a kind of farmer's calendar, in which the different ruraloccupations are arranged in order of the months.
These associations are composed of members following the same or allied occupations (e.
One of the chiefoccupations of an Indian man was hunting.
Hundreds of thousands of men left occupations of all sorts and joined the armies.
The chief occupations of Indian men were hunting and waging war.
Occupations were far fewer than now, wages lower, and hours of labor longer.
In every great city to-day are men, women, and boys engaged in a hundred trades, professions, and occupations unknown in 1790.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "occupations" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
