Babe's profession was being the family beauty, and it took all her spare time.

A mercy if he escaped without blows: for they are a company of evil men, whose profession is wrongs and violence.

SECTION VII ACTING AS A PROFESSION FOR WOMEN I do not know that the first actress who ever faced the public told her friends that the profession was not all paint and glitter, because being a pioneer, and so treading on the corns of custom, she was held as an unwomanly creature, and had unpleasant things thrown at her, as well as words.

His making these professions was not merely a pretence in presence of his Chief; for after he and I were out of Sir Allan's hearing, he told me, 'Had he sent his dog for the rum, I would have given it: I would cut my bones for him.'

They forget, in their zeal for religious freedom, that even the purest and holiest of causes may be sullied and disgraced by the deeds of its upholders, and that a wild and frantic profession of faith is not always a test of genuine piety.

* * The health of the city and suburbs is proverbial, and the profession of a physician is, perhaps, of all others the least lucrative.

But before he was graduated from Columbia College he began to doubt whether the profession of being an aristocrat in a democracy was a man's job.

Fraud and treachery are his calling, though his profession be the strictest integrity and truth.

His profession was peace; yet his blood, also, was hot against the man who had put a slight on Princess Osra.

His profession of love and of service to his lady was the sole remaining pride of his life, and now that he knew that she believed and trusted him, he longed for every man to hear what he had to say.

"Our profession," said Washington, "is the chastest of all; even the shadow of a fault tarnishes the lustre of our finest achievements."

The blazer and the town-made gown are innocent recruiting sergeants for the city brigades; and since one man's profession is ever a mystery to his fellow, blazer and gown believe that the farmer must be happy and content.

To his landlady, worthy Mrs. Seacon, Tom Peters's profession was a little vague, but everybody knew that Roxdal was the manager of the City and Suburban Bank, and it puzzled her to think why a bank manager should live with such a seedy-looking person, who smoked clay pipes and sipped whiskey and water all the evening when he was at home.

She knows nothing much, but she's great on the smile; Her profession is love, and she flirts all the while; She's accustomed to sitting on rocks in the glen; She is also accustomed to sitting on men.

Hereupon Artemisia and Serventius laughed, and informed me that the profession of a poet, if such it might be termed, was the most laborious, thankless, and ill requited of any, and that to be a poet, was in fact little better than being an honourable mendicant.

I am, therefore, sorry, since there can be no other, that his profession should be an objection in your mind.

Why should Prussia now alone, to its own injury, adopt this excessive caution?" He goes farther: not only does he reject the principle of legitimacy,he refuses to be bound by any principles; he did not free himself from one party to bind himself to another; his profession was diplomacy and in diplomacy there was no place for feelings of affection and antipathy.

And when he got upon his hobby and told her how grand a vocation the teacher's profession was, and recited stories of the self-denial of Pestalozzi and Froebel, and the great schemes of Basedow, and told how he meant here in this new country to build a great Institute on rational principles, Helen Minorkey found him more interesting than ever.

I don't think the other profession is an exception.

But his profession was the least real thing in his life.

The profession of arms was the sole pursuit which opened a career bounded only by the wildest dreams of ambition.

" The intention of the King in granting the royal charter to Massachusetts was, says Cotton Mather: "To win and invite the natives of that country to the knowledge and obedience of the only true God and Saviour of mankind, and the Christian faith, is our Royal intentions, and the adventurer's free profession is the principal end of the plantation.

A planter was one day dining with the owner of this slave, and in the course of conversation observed, that all profession of religion among slaves was mere hypocrisy.

On the occasion of the performance at Drury Lane which the theatrical profession organized in 1906 in honor of my Stage Jubilee, one of the items in the programme was a scene from "Much Ado about Nothing."

In her case this public profession was a very real act.