It is not yet definitely the poetic vocation which appeals to him, but he does desire a free active calling with unlimited possibilities.
They esteem virginity, and keep it inviolate, even to advanced age, for the vocation of matrimony.
In all these islands it preserves the name of Lutao, for since that is their vocation it well explains their nature.
We soon approached the splendid pavilion of the pacha, unlike the rest in shape, and surrounded by a quantity of servants, some cooking at the root of a tree, and all pursuing their vocation with a singular earnestness.
The Pine Rat, in his vocation as a picker-up of every unconsidered trifle, is an adept at charcoal-burning, on the sly.
A shrimp it can undoubtedly catch; and it exercises its vocation in shallow water, such as shrimps alone inhabit or small fish no larger than shrimps.
Their vocation on shore is, however, but a temporary one, and requires no great amount of locomotion.
The shepherds and others, whose vocation lies on the downs, used to take advantage of the habit of these birds to conceal themselves, and construct a multitude of simple but efficacious traps in which they capture large numbers.
This promises very well; for letters a man must have a strong vocation as he should have for law--I will do all that you wish.
Louis, brought up by Mazarin and Anne of Austria, knew better than any one else his vocation as a monarch; he therefore endeavored to prove it on the present occasion.
Let him hold steadily to his true vocation as a poet, and never fear to be thought idle, or untrue to his land.
Only thus was it possible for the Germans to imagine that among all modern nations they alone had a vocation for Art.
Reynolds' vocationhad been brought about through the perusal of a book.
I can now see what an exalted and difficult vocation it is to be a king.
His achievements in his new vocation proving of slight merit, he sought, and found it an easy matter to obtain, a position at court.
My true vocation would be to found a new civilization.
Because of its political character, however, it is the secondary vocationthat primarily determines the social position of the individual.
Political activity and the equally esteemed military vocation come more and more to be given the place of highest honour.
Augustine's Civitas Dei was the first attempt at a world history based on the idea of the religiousvocation of mankind.
Pressing itself was in its decline, and as for the vocation of the man in lieu, it had gone never to return.
For the sailor to deny his vocation was worse than useless.
The vocation of the better type "man in lieu" was a vicarious sort of employment, entailing any but disagreeable consequences upon him who followed it.
In his main vocation he "used the sea," and that was enough.
Meanwhile you seem more fitted for the career of a soldier than the vocation of a churchman.
True--I never thought Prince Eugene had any vocation for the priesthood; and, knowing his disinclination to the church, I myself advised him to ask for a commission in the army.
My vocation is not for the priesthood, and, if I am called upon to utter compulsory vows, I feel that I shall disgrace my cloth.
But my vocation is not for the cloister, and therefore I implore your highness's protection.
When one reads her sharp, incisive pen-portraits, drawn with such profound insight and masterly skill, one feels that her true vocation was in the world of letters.
And now, I congratulate you again upon your success here, and hope for a bright future for you and hope you will be successful in the vocation which you have chosen.
A certain sense of his vocation as the Columbus of the Bible ever accompanies him from that time forward.
His name was Fullerton, and his vocation that of surgeon in the English East India Company's service.
The household changes were just about to be made; she herself had but a week or two more in Shampuashuh; and Lois, against all expectation, had found opportunity immediately to try her vocation for teaching.
Isaiah became conscious of his vocation in the year of King Uzziah's death; his earliest discourses date from the beginning of the reign of Ahaz.
They are indeed their tribe fellows, but it is not because he belongs to Levi that Aaron is chosen, and his priesthood cannot be said to be the acme and flower of the general vocation of his tribe.
The priests are the spiritual leaders of the people; the reproach that they do not fulfil their high vocation proves in the first place that they have it.
He had saved a moderate competency in the vocation of coactor, a name applied both to the collectors of public revenue and of money at sales by public auction.
Fortune, who with malicious glee Her merciless vocation plies, Benignly smiling now on me, Now on another, bids him rise, And in mere wantonness of whim Her favours shifts from me to him.
At noon the worthy prelate was shewn up to my room, and began by complimenting me on the good reputation I had at Zurich, saying that this made him believe that my vocation was a real one.
This Giustiniani had a great influence upon me, although I did not know it, for I thought my vocationwas sure.
We know that he would not by preference have chosen the law, and did not feel that his vocation lay that way; but it was the only way open to him for mending his fortunes.
Among these papers is one which sums up his convictions about the work before him, and the vocation to which he had been called in respect of it.
My dear child," said my uncle, drawing me towards him, "your religious vocation appears to me to be mainly a wish to have someone to care for.
But I like to look on the composer's vocation as the old troubadours or bards did.
