Sentence examples for the hobby of a man from inspiring English sources

It was the hobby of a man who appreciated order.

The NTV television channel reported that helicopter piloting, along with motorcycle racing, was one of the latest hobbies of a man who never allowed physical challenges -- as a youth, he lost a foot in an accident at aviation school -- to hinder his pursuit of sport.

Are these all just the hobbies of astonishingly rich men who'd like to find a way not to die (and a good place for dinner)?

This gives the hobby of raising homing pigeons a curious permanence, a fixedness in space.

The Museum was the one-man hobby of this rich man who controlled the place singlehanded until his death in '57.

She is co-starring with Dave Elman, the Hobby-Lobby man of radio, in the first of a series of short features he is making.

John Wayne, the big, bellowing, heavy-drinking, mountainous vista of a man whose greatest hobbies were chess, bridge, poker and memorizing poetry, had finally had his day.

The First Lady and the Hobby-Lobby man were painted the color of Cherokee Indians.

By Russell Maloney The New Yorker, November 20 , 1943 P. 17A man from the FBI wanted to know, did Mr. T--have any hobbies.

Elsewhere we are reminded that Johnny Haynes kept budgerigars and learn of the coin collection assembled by Chelsea's Ian Hutchinson, the balletomania of West Brom's Graham Williams, the enthusiasm for growing chrysanthemums developed by Everton's Eddie Wainwright, and the poodle-breeding hobby of the Southampton winger Terry Paine, another notorious hard man.

But then, inspired by some experiences I'd had on surveillance with the private eye who was the subject of my first nonfiction book, I hit on the idea of writing a novel about a man who has the unusual hobby of following people in his car, and happily that book clicked, emerging almost two years ago as a psychological thriller, "The Dark House".