The frugal meals consist merely of a little rice or raw fish; for luxury they have half a cup of sakki or rice wine, and for recreation and pleasure an afternoon walk in the flowering orchards or cherry-groves.
Every one has hours ofrecreation in every day; the more such hours are filled with pleasant, simple, hopeful, beautiful thoughts, the better for us all.
The present system of education was directed, Hugh felt, more to training a generation of clerks, than to implanting an aptitude for innocent recreation and sensible amusement.
His father, he remembered, had remonstrated with him, and had said that by giving up sketching he was sacrificing a great resource of recreation and amusement.
In fact mutilation in various forms appears to be the chief recreation of these autocrats.
This desuetude of natural and smiling recreation on a day intended for surcease of labor struck me (for I am in part an ancient Greek, in part a mediæval Florentine) as strangely irreligious.
But the standard recreation at Chautauqua is the habit of impromptu eating in the open air.
They all left their overcoats in the private omnibus that took them down from the County Hall, while he showed them over the unwholesome little waste, as it then was, and pointed out its possibilities as a recreation ground.
Between the dock wall and the tunnel is a large municipal gymnasium and recreation ground, the scheme for which was first unfolded by Crooks at the College, when the ground was a waste and the children were without play-places.
They have play in the open air and recreation indoors in the way of games and books.
In all that related to games and healthful recreation Crooks agreed in giving the scholars the fullest facilities.
As we passed down that portion of the High Street that skirts the Recreation Ground, Crooks pointed out the quaint old church of St. Matthias.
These are the Bromley Recreation Ground, the Tunnel Gardens at Poplar, and the Island Gardens that take their name from the Isle of Dogs.
Crooks obtained this recreation ground for Bromley at the cost of his overcoat.
Little attempt is usually made to direct in any way the outside activities or the recreation hours of the young people and often their activities take a direction which is distinctly unsocial.
She leaned across the table in the recreation room where he had been reading.
At last there came a day when he was able to walk to the recreation room with only the aid of a stick and her arm.
Recreation was indispensable for him, and his friends also earnestly advised him to it.
These grand-children were the greatestrecreation of the grand-parents.
Melanchthon's journey of recreation was not a little embittered, for he received the news of this occurrence in Wittenberg.
Martyrdom is the recreation of such people and they are liable to be more greedy for recreation than those whose recreation is of a joyous sort.
For recreation we may pleasantly, and perhaps profitably, speculate as to what there may be in the way of atoms finer than star-dust, and as to the possible degree of invisibleness of the ultimate ether.
Tiring of guessing in these directions, we may vary our recreation by attempts to peep under or through the veil which Nature so persistently holds between the present conscious life and the one we hope for beyond the veil.
Recreation in clubs and reading-rooms is often easy to contrive, and hours for worship can also be arranged.
Since the outbreak of the present war it has to a large extent suspended its ordinary work, in order that it might establish a system of recreation tents and reading rooms in all the naval and military camps.
Centres for thought and rest and recreation everywhere.
Any occasion, act, or means ofrecreation or of pleasurable excitement.
In this respect, the orator of Roanoke resembled the Sicilian tyrant whose taste for cruelty led him to seek recreation in putting insects to the torture.
Then up those back-breaking stairs and into the big recreation room where the registry book was kept for this occasion.
You may go to your room now, and when you hear the bell you will come to the recreation hall, which you will pass on your way.
With hearts momentarily beating faster, the three stepped into the recreation hall on their floor.
Since then, the principality's mild climate, splendid scenery, and gambling facilities have made Monaco world famous as a tourist and recreation center.
It is not true that only that recreationcan be enjoyed that is detrimental to the body and spirit.
I would call the first a vicious enemy, and refer him to water to drink; and the latter an evil spirit in the guise of innocence, and refer him {411} to recreation containing no germs of spiritual disease leading to the devil!
Not in seeking pleasure and recreation do they offer their time and attention in the worship of the Lord; nor can they thus rejoice in the spirit of forgiveness and worship that comes with partaking of the holy sacrament.
Let the love of reading good and useful books be implanted in the hearts of the young, let them be trained to take pleasure and recreation in history, travel, biography, conversation and classic story.
Let our evenings be devoted to innocent amusements in the home, and let all chance games be banished from our families, and only recreation indulged in that is free from gambling and the gambling spirit.
But after being awakened to the sin of romance, I saw that to read a novel merely for recreation is not permissible.
And the person who had to be the spy-courier called Adam Lowiewski, and Lowiewski made an appointment to meet him at the Oppenheimer Village Recreation House to play chess.
I've got to go to town late this afternoon, but I was wondering if you'd have time to meet me at the Recreation House at Oppenheimer Village for a game of chess.
He seldom walked in the street; his public recreation was in riding.
The remainder of the day and the evening were devoted to company or to recreation in the family circle.
Slowly, he left the room to wait for Astro in the recreation hall where the results of the manuals would be announced.
Here, then, is a man who is in serious danger of being cut off from that rest and recreation which most other men can have.
It is chiefly a question ofrecreation versus education.
But what of the many hours of leisure in every man's life, when no mental recreation is needed?
If recreation be our object, better far to join a circulating library than garner volumes which, once read, are never to be opened again.
There can be no finer recreation for a tired mind than a good novel.
I will venture to prophesy, however, that, by judicious selection and thoughtful reading, there will come a time when he will consider the reading of the great books to constitute the finest mental recreation in the world.
I have touched on some of the forms of amusement and recreation you may indulge in; you will also find a pleasant social life developing among the cheery and hospitable Pragers.
Here is a large recreation ground for the use of such bodies as Sokol societies.
