42 Metaphors for occupations

Occupations "Christian work has been the banner of my life-labor work, giving messages about the Bible, teaching.

Our inspection of the surroundings showed that Captain Garcia's companion, Baltasar de Ocampo, was correct when he said that the occupation of the bridge of Chuquichaca "was a measure of no small importance for the royal force."

In giving instructions to his brothers how they should appear before the King, and what they should say when questioned as to their occupations, he advised the utmost frankness,to say that they were shepherds, although the occupation of a shepherd was an abomination to an Egyptian.

The occupation of the sisters in the monastery they have joined is prayers, the offices of the Church, and, I believe, a little instruction of poor children.

What could be hoped of laws, however good, when they were made the channels of extortion, when the occupation of the Bench itself was the great instrument by which powerful men protected their monopolies?

Partly these occupations are the clean, light, and agreeable ones, partly they have a relative social glamour, largely they can be followed for a few years near the home of the worker, nearly always they may be undertaken with brief training and little skill.

But the occupation of Louisiana was now the established policy of France, and hardly a year went by without one or more forts appearing somewhere in the valley.

From the days of the contests with France, through the long Spanish troubles and dominion, the military occupation of the country by the troops of Louis XIV., the Austrian rule, the levelling tendency of the French Revolution, and the present aping of French manners by the higher powers of the land,through all this there has been but one long, continuous struggle, and the ultimate result is now too plain.

Another occupation that is appropriate and fun-making is a pea and tooth-pick contest.

The principal occupation of the inhabitants there, were the cultivation of the soil and the care of their flocks.

Hence, undisturbed occupation with himself, his own thoughts and works, is a matter of urgent necessity to such a man; solitude is welcome, leisure is the highest good, and everything else is unnecessary, nay, even burdensome.

Some years ago, I came to the conclusion that the proper occupation for these Indians was stock-raising.

It would have had its trivial and its quadrivial schools; its occupation would have been research, experiment, or investigation; in a word, its whole features would have been colored by a grammatical, a rhetorical, or a mathematical cast, accordingly as it should have been derived from a sect in which any one of these three characteristics was the predominating influence.

All occupations which employ the mind are so many thefts from love.

Occupations in the Middle Colonies.%In the Middle Colonies the population was a mixture of people from many European countries.

These apparently incongruous occupations are the relics of an old taste for sport, which as a boy in the country I had ample opportunity for indulging, and of an interrupted training for the Church'twixt then and now there is an eventful gap which, if you don't mind, we won't sadden each other by fillingLet

The occupation of a country, which would be of no great practical value to you when you got it, would be a poor return for the loss to which you would have been put in the process.

A worthier occupation is science (274): Implendus sibi quisque bonis est artibus: illae Sunt animi fruges, haec rerum est optima merces.

Occupation is not a sign of caste.

His next occupation was the editorship of the journals La Epoca and La Politica.

"It has been generally allowed by these and other writers on archaeology, that the primitive church of this form was that of the Holy Sepulchre at Jerusalem, and that the Temple Church at London was built by the Knights' Templars, whose occupation was the protection of Christian pilgrims against the Saracens.

Occupation "My first occupation was farmingyou know, field work.

The seven occupations listed are housekeeper, nursemaid, laundress, saleswoman, teacher, dressmaker and servant.

" "And your occupation?" "Is a very tryin' one and not paid for as it deserves.

Their more serious Occupations are Sowing and Embroidery, and their greatest Drudgery the Preparation of Jellies and Sweetmeats.

42 Metaphors for  occupations