Sentence examples for avocations from inspiring English sources

His avocations were politics and writing.

The contrast was functional in origin: the menial tasks of the monk related him sartorially to the peasant, whose humble avocations he often duplicated, rather than to the princes and prelates of the church, whose dress reflected the splendour of the ceremonies in which they engaged.

In addition, a rich variety of periodicals represent various professions, trades, intellectual interests, and avocations.

The Brahmans, whatever their worldly avocations, claim to have by virtue of their birth the authority to teach the Veda, perform ritual sacrifices for others, and accept gifts and subsistence.

"For families that are unable to access these avocations, Walmart offers many options at affordable prices".

Or all can worship equally well about their own hearth-stones, or out on the hillside, or while pursuing the avocations of every-day life.

Certainly, that politics can be a dangerous avocation in Asia, for women as for men.

Between the time of his leaving school and his nineteenth year, he was constantly employed in the hardy avocation of a Western woodman, cutting down trees, splitting rails, and the like, and during the evening eagerly devoting the few hours until bed-time to such books as he could manage to procure".

The militarist, even imperial avocation of an Alexander Hamilton or a Theodore Roosevelt is countered by the Jeffersonian wariness of war as the sport of tyrants.

Her idea was to immerse herself in a topic pugilism that was an unexpected avocation for a psychologist.

An employee in various New York City banks, including that of John Jacob Astor, Halleck wrote only as an avocation.