1 Laurie's eyes followed her with pleasure, for she neither romped nor sauntered, but danced with spirit and grace, making the delightsome pastime what it should be.
2 I give you leave, returned Laurie, who enjoyed having someone to tease, after his long abstinence from his favorite pastime.
3 Soon finding, however, that either she or the image was unreal, she turned elsewhere for better pastime.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel HawthorneContext Highlight In XV. HESTER AND PEARL 4 They feel that this is something different, that this is not a mere pastime, that this woman is dearer to me than life.
5 He was startled when they came upon him while he was engaged in this latter pastime, and his colour changed.
6 Desperately fond of dancing herself, one of Eustacia's expectations of Paris had been the opportunity it might afford her of indulgence in this favourite pastime.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContext Highlight In BOOK 4: 3 She Goes Out to Battle against Depression 7 The one and the other may serve as a pastime.
8 As it is now, war is the favorite pastime of the idle and frivolous.
9 Mr. Pontellier himself had no particular leaning toward horseracing, and was even rather inclined to discourage it as a pastime, especially when he considered the fate of that blue-grass farm in Kentucky.
10 However difficult it might be, or rather as he pretended it was, to astonish our young traveler, this pastime really astonished him.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre DumasContext Highlight In 2 THE ANTECHAMBER OF M. DE TREVILLE 11 I did not omit even our sports and pastimes, or any other particular which I thought might redound to the honour of my country.
12 I was asked not long ago to tell something about the sports and pastimes that I engaged in during my youth.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. WashingtonContext Highlight In Chapter I.