The trouble with gardening is that is does not remain an avocation. From LearnThat.org. [Phyllis McGinley]
My main avocation, almost a second vocation, is farming. From Wordnik.com. [Daniel L. McFadden - Autobiography] Reference
I'm now pursuing my long-term avocation, the stock market. From Wordnik.com. [pfblogs.org: The Ad-Free Personal Finance Blogs Aggregator] Reference
But Guckert's avocation is the least-creepy aspect of this story. From Wordnik.com. [03/06/2005] Reference
I miss my chosen avocation, which is that of minstrel. From Wordnik.com. [The Day of the Dissonance]
"I would not like to hurt your feelings by calling your avocation a trade!". From Wordnik.com. [Crown and Anchor Under the Pen'ant] Reference
"I've worked with a lot of good folks over my career, and I appreciate the opportunity afforded to me in this 'avocation' to have worked alongside each of them.". From Wordnik.com. [High Plains Journal: Ag News] Reference
"His vocation was the law, his avocation, farming.". From Wordnik.com. [How to Speak and Write Correctly] Reference
He used his spare time in having a useful avocation. From Wordnik.com. [Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the Twenty-Fourth Annual Meeting Downington, Pennsylvania, September 11 and 12, 1933] Reference
By training as well as avocation, Fisher is a biologist. From Wordnik.com. [The Wrong Woman To Pass Over] Reference
We are here because we have the avocation of nut growing. From Wordnik.com. [Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the Twenty-Fourth Annual Meeting Downington, Pennsylvania, September 11 and 12, 1933] Reference
And how she had found her life's work, or at least avocation. From Wordnik.com. [The Global Flavor Of U.S. Heartland] Reference
Pansari or druggist is recognised as being a proper avocation of the. From Wordnik.com. [The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India Volume II] Reference
Settle, a stage Yankee, whose avocation is planting English children in. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine, Volume 11, No. 26, May, 1873] Reference
We might speak of the discussion of illness as the Beckman family avocation. From Wordnik.com. [Our Nervous Friends — Illustrating the Mastery of Nervousness] Reference
Baseball filled my life, growing from avocation to obsession as I grew from six to eleven. From Wordnik.com. [Getting a Brushback from the Babe] Reference
Throughout history only a fraction of the world's artists have made a living at their avocation. From Wordnik.com. [How To Get A Job In The Arts] Reference
Say what they would, farmers looked up to merchants, and considered their own avocation inferior. From Wordnik.com. [Summerfield or, Life on a Farm] Reference
His profession was that of a pickpocket, in which avocation he had always been singularly expert. From Wordnik.com. [My Life: or the Adventures of Geo. Thompson Being the Auto-Biography of an Author. Written by Himself.] Reference
The fishermen prosecuted their avocation sometimes with line and baited hooks, sometimes with boat and nets. From Wordnik.com. [The Parables of Our Lord] Reference
With the hope that you may be able to take up this most fascinating avocation with pleasure and profit, I am. From Wordnik.com. [Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the Fifth Annual Meeting Evansville, Indiana, August 20 and 21, 1914] Reference
Many a one has already been driven to commit a crime by his despair at having chosen an unsuitable avocation. From Wordnik.com. [Napoleon and the Queen of Prussia] Reference
To a Cambridge friend of mine, who met him in Broadway, he expressed great satisfaction with his new avocation. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 109, November, 1866] Reference
Their proper avocation at present is the rearing of pigs, while some of them are also tenants and farm-labourers. From Wordnik.com. [The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India Volume II] Reference
To teach mothers the need for boiled water as a necessary drink for baby and older children is alone a worthy avocation. From Wordnik.com. [The Eugenic Marriage, Volume IV. (of IV.) A Personal Guide to the New Science of Better Living and Better Babies] Reference
Her mother it was who opened unto her, for this is woman's oldest and holiest avocation, door-keeper unto wandering feet. From Wordnik.com. [St. Cuthbert's] Reference
I hope you are all alive after our melancholy parting yesterday, and that you pursued your intended avocation with success. From Wordnik.com. [Jane Austen, Her Life and Letters A Family Record] Reference
These waters are infested with pirates, who ostensibly pursue the avocation of fishermen, until an opportunity opens to catch men. From Wordnik.com. [Kathay: A Cruise in the China Seas] Reference
There were no remarkable features about the case, which however was sufficiently severe to disable him from pursuing his avocation. From Wordnik.com. [The Electric Bath] Reference
Generally neither pregnancy nor labor interrupt the ordinary avocation of the mother, except for an hour or two at the birth itself. From Wordnik.com. [The Ladies Book of Useful Information Compiled from many sources] Reference
The proper avocation of the Baris is, as already stated, the manufacture of the leaf-cups and plates used by all Hindus at festivals. From Wordnik.com. [The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India Volume II] Reference
He grew positive daily, however, that, in view of these stimulating aspirations, he could no longer pursue his embarrassing avocation. From Wordnik.com. [The Flaw in the Sapphire] Reference
The girl at home is never dull, or unhappy because she is dull, when she has an avocation in addition to her work and life in the home. From Wordnik.com. [The Canadian Girl at Work A Book of Vocational Guidance] Reference
Maliabechi of a collector, yet he encouraged no selfish feeling to alloy his pleasure or to mingle bitterness with the sweets of his avocation. From Wordnik.com. [Bibliomania in the Middle Ages] Reference
To render acts of kindness seemed their natural avocation, and I never think of them without recalling Sir Walter Scott's description of a ministering angel. From Wordnik.com. [As I Remember Recollections of American Society during the Nineteenth Century] Reference
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