99 adjectives to describe callings

But the young man declined the proposal, because he thought himself unfitted for the sacred calling.

Very much puzzled and confused, and perhaps a little frightened at these curious deceptions, he laid himself down on the grass and shut his eyes so as to go to sleep; but no sooner had he shut his eyes than he heard a soft, soft little voice calling, "Martin! Martin!"

I was his only son, and according to the usage of our country, was destined to the same holy calling.

Most professions and mysteries derive the practice of all their faculties from him, but use them with less ingenuity and candour; for the more he deceives those he has to do with the better he deals with them; while those that imitate him in a lawful calling are far more dishonest, for the more they impose the more they abuse.

In this country, from the passover to the beginning of the succeeding year, the sun shines with such insufferable heat, that the people remain shut up in their houses from the third hour of the day until evening; and then lamps are lighted up in all the streets and markets, and the people labour at their respective callings all night.

"Against the aspersion," continued the cobbler, with an oratorical flourish, "that has been cast upon a honourable calling.

People were diverted from useful callings by the mighty delusion which gold discoveries created.

His father having lost his property, Solon applied himself to merchandise,always a respectable calling in a mercantile city.

There, the friends of his youth, steadfast and generous, pitying his sad plight, and having perfect faith in his unimpeached integrity, purchasedprincipally at the sale in bankruptcy of his own effectsa modest stock of new and second-hand books and magazines, together with some stationery and a few fancy articles in that line, and reestablished him in the humble but peaceful calling of a country bookseller.

Plautus His younger contemporary, Titus Maccius Plautus (500?-570), appears to have been far inferior to him both in outward position and in the conception of his poetic calling.

They diverted men from legitimate callings.

He has arrived at his present pass in "the literary calling" through the self-imposed obligation to give himself a manner which would convey the impression of superior knowledge and ability.

A man had better line a good handsome pair of gallows before his time, than be born to do these sucklings good, their mother's milk not wrung out of their nose yet; they know no more how to behave themselves in this honest and needful calling of pursetaking, than I do to piece stockings.

Catching then a glimpse of the glorious calling of the Gospel minister, he breaks forth in the following strain: If I am ambitious in anything on earth, it is to be eminently useful in His cause.

But I fear that without some more effectual calling, the arguments he appears to have employed were not likely to have made Lord Byron a proselyte.

He was on a very friendly footing with a priest whom, by his logic and his sincerity, he had prevailed upon to forsake the ecclesiastical calling.

He then became a schoolmaster at Montevideo, but soon tired of so monotonous a calling.

Think I carry ships in my pocket?" Outside, the swollen discord of shouts, thunder of gongs, and hoarse calling of the conches came slowly nearer, extending through the darkness.

Well-bred, polite, Credit thy calling.

"It certainly is an honorable calling, and if you look good from the front you can always have your pick of the menu.

Eight years had elapsed since Valentine had been obliged to dismiss this woman for immorality; and during those eight years Celeste, weary of service, had tried a number of equivocal callings of which she did not speak.

We must try to make all which we tell them bear on the great purpose of unfolding to woman her own calling in all agesher especial calling in this one.

For fifteen years he studied, passing from one grade to another until in 1899, he had the great joy of being ordained to the ministry, six of his ministerial brethren gathering around him in the great Temple and laying on his head the hands of ordination, feeling they were setting apart to the struggles and hardships of the Gospel ministry one who had shown himself worthy of his exalted calling.

Of course they have their false gods, as all men that follow one exclusive calling are prone to do.

By far the most exhilarating calling is that of the elephant hunter, who finds in the profits he derives from it all the compensation he requires for the hardships, the long marches, and the grave personal dangers.

99 adjectives to describe  callings