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Sentences ending with pastime

But it was too cold a pastime. [5]
His delight was to kick my shins with all his might, under the desk, not at all as an act of hostility, but as a gratifying and harmless pastime. [6]
The one and the other may serve as a pastime. [2]
Each one was ready to be taught by lips so sweet, and in guiding of fingers and words of praise or blame, there was right merry laughing and chatter and pastime. [10]
Milk-leg is cured; nervous prostration is cured; consumption is cured; and St. Vitus's dance made a pastime. [5]
Milk-leg is cured; nervous prostration is cured; consumption is cured; and St. Vitus's dance is made a pastime. [5]
So we destroy hundreds of lives for pastime. [10]
Many a time have I sat by his side while he pored over his books, and I could see how he set to work in right earnest when once he had cast away sports and pastime. [10]
We should have been unhappy indeed had it not been for this pastime. [9]
I need not add that the care of a garden with this hoe becomes the merest pastime. [4]

More example sentences with the word pastime in them

Mr. Marmaduke was wont to rise at noon, and knew not wheat from barley, or good leaf from bad; his hands he kept like a lady's, rendering them almost useless by the long lace on the sleeves, and his chief pastime was card-playing. [9]
At first they welcomed the whites, and were eager to trade with them--particularly for muskets; for their pastime was internecine war, and they greatly preferred the white man's weapons to their own. [5]
The whole affair was over so suddenly that as a pastime for ladies it must have been disappointing. [4]
They had been walking the while, and had crossed the lawn and entered one of the many paths which it had been Robert's pastime to cut through the woods. [9]
They betted away the week at billiards or whist or picquet or loo, and sometimes measured swords for diversion, tho' this pastime the bailiff was greatly set against; as calculated to deprive him of a lodger. [9]
Now Spond was the greatest and heaviest of the wolfhounds; Anap, rightly Anapaest, was a slender and swift greyhound; and whereas he found this pastime of names good sport he carried it further. [10]
I will import the chief portion of it into this book, partly because of its intrinsic interest, and partly because it gives such a vivid idea of what the perilous pastime of Alp-climbing is. [5]
And the fact that she was playing with real fire, that this was a duel with the buttons off, lent a piquancy and zest to the pastime which it had hitherto lacked. [9]
I will explain that Dr. Lecher was not making a twelve-hour speech for pastime, but for an important purpose. [5]
When there is so much to read, there is little time for conversation; nor is there leisure for another pastime of the ancient firesides, called reading aloud. [4]
But his favorite pastime was building. [10]
Physical pain is pastime to it, and hanging a pleasure excursion. [5]
Of course this pastime soon lost its novelty, inasmuch as it must necessarily have been the case that when so powerful a deity sent a frail human opponent "to grass" he never came back any more. [5]
While we were on the shallow water of the reef, it was pastime to look down into the limpid depths at the large bunches of branching coral--the unique shrubbery of the sea. [5]
It was going on finely; it would play with the doll my Aunt had given it in happy pastime, and now I did the little one's bidding and was right glad to be her play fellow for a while. [10]
As it is now, war is the favorite pastime of the idle and frivolous. [2]
Even with this liberal allowance of pastime a great part of the colony still sulked. [4]
The massacre of isolated communities is the pastime of my idle moments, the destruction of nationalities the serious business of my life! [5]
A favorite pastime in this peaceful region was the broom drill, and its execution gave an operatic character to the voyage. [4]
You had a great pastime of your own--your thoughts of Mena, and scope for a thousand dreams in your distant love. [10]
One is sorry for the husband, really...." "Oh no, we are good friends with him," said Nicholas in the simplicity of his heart; it did not enter his head that a pastime so pleasant to himself might not be pleasant to someone else. [2]
Then came an adjournment to the bed-chamber and the pastime of writing up the day's journal with one hand and the destruction of mosquitoes with the other--a whole community of them at a slap. [5]
Hoeing becomes, not a pastime, but a duty. [4]
Unless I get a great deal of rest, a ghastly dulness settles down upon me on the platform, and turns my performance into work, and hard work, whereas it ought always to be pastime, recreation, solid enjoyment. [5]

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