Still harmless are these occupations, That hurt none but the hapless student, Compared with other recreations Which bring together the imprudent.
Such was the effect of his Lordship's illness on the public mind, that all classes had forgotten their usual recreations of Easter, even before the afflicting event was apprehended.
Lynching, after all, is not an American institution, but a peculiarly Southern institution, and even in the South it will die out as other more seemly recreations are introduced.
Worse, most of them are still so barbarous that they regard such recreations as immoral.
The recreations suited to a prince were to sit in a cloud of tobacco smoke, to sip Swedish beer between the puffs of the pipe, to play backgammon for three half-pence a rubber, to kill wild hogs, and to shoot partridges by the thousand.
These are the recreations of charity the holy mother told me of," said Salome, as she passed out of the work-room and went back to her own sphere of duty.
This week we are all, young and old, engaged in the delightful recreations of charity.
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The recreations of the women are very few, and, in fact, they are treated as slaves to their husbands.
There are amusements and amusements, and recreations and recreations, but I know of none adapted for the winter months which can be so cheaply indulged in, with so much profit to health, as Football.
That the game was played as early as the tenth century there is any amount of authentic evidence to show, and that it continued to be one of the chief recreations of the people there can be no doubt.
Concerning the recreations and pastimes of the Nambutiris, Mr. Subramani Aiyar writes as follows.
There are a number of other recreations of an entirely non-religious character.
The recreations of youth, as my companions began to increase in number, interfered with this solitary, still enjoyment.
Some of their recreations required calculation, and I observed that their intercourse with each other appeared to be easy, swift, and intelligible.
It was originally designed by its detestable owner for other purposes than those of affording to a vast and crowded city the innocent delights and recreations of retired and tasteful scenery.
Monsieur has seen me reading them a hundred times, and knows I have not so many recreations as to undervalue those he provides.
You seek your recreations in public, by the light of the evening chandelier: this school and yonder college are your workshops, where you fabricate the ware called pupils.
His recreations were simple--rowing, walking, visiting his friends, and playing on the organ.
The Greek females led exceedingly retired lives, being far more charily admitted to a share of the recreations of the nobler sex than we of these privileged days.
Recreations are not education; accomplishments are not education.
He renewed his father's edict for allowing sports and recreationson Sunday to such as attended public worship; and he ordered his proclamation for that purpose to be publicly read by the clergy after divine service.
All recreations were in a manner suspended by the rigid severity of the Presbyterians and Independents.
Are such exercises used by persons of her quality, whose recreations are always noble, and such as display an air of greatness suitable to their birth and dignity?
His only recreations were playing at billiards against himself, for want of one to play with, and walking in his garden, of which he was very fond, though ignorant of botany and even of the common names of the commonest plants.
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