Hunting, if indulged in regularly over a period of years, is a pastime that seldom fails to lend a fairly deepish tinge to the patient's complexion, and her best friends could not have denied that even at normal times the relative's map tended a little toward the crushed strawberry.

Sledging on the snow was an habitual pastime at Vienna, where the cold is more severe than at Paris; nor in former years had sledges been wholly unknown in the Bois de Boulogne.

At this moment she was especially happy with a new pastime.

In order to kill time they give themselves up to games of chance, and those who do not care for that devote themselves to the sport of adultery, which in that class is a pastime even among the best friends, on account of sheer mental poverty.

In fact, she was fond of flirting, and as it must probably have been impossible to flirt with Montagu, she indulged herself in that agreeable pastime with more than one otherto the great annoyance of that pompous prig of an admirer of hers.

Althea went with me and shared in these occupations, except in the haymaking and the milking; but she did so with a grave and serious air, seeming to give her whole mind to the work, as if it were a task she had to learn, whereas I thought it but a delightful pastime that I loved in spite of its being profitable.

I cried; 'nor should you let him think they do; 'tis not fair usage.' 'Nay, he diverts me hugely,' said she; 'and I need diversion, for my heart is heavy as lead, Lucy;'all at once there were tears in her eyes;'if I can forget my griefs while I watch a mannikin bowing and grimacing before me, don't grudge me the poor pastime.

His once favourite pastime of hunting now ceased to afford him any delight.

This same self-reliance made him in his latter years apt to draw conclusions too confidently and hastily on subjects which he had taken up more as a pastime than as work.

No! either all the instruction of history is vanity, and its warnings but the pastime of a mocking-bird, or this indifference is impossible; therefore I may yet meet with Franklin's good luck.

In a district like Chumparun where nearly every planter was an ardent sportsman, a good rider, and spent nearly half his time on horseback, pig-sticking was a favourite pastime.

The dwellers in the Presidency towns, and indeed in most of the large stations, seldom see an exhibition of this kind; but away in the remote interior, near the frontier, it is very popular pastime, and wrestling is a favourite with all classes.

"John, what are you thinking of?" He stirred as if Di's voice had disturbed his fancy at some pleasant pastime, but answered with his usual sincerity, "I was thinking of a certain dear old fairy tale called 'Cinderella.'

But she was too delicate to ask Lucia the truth, and contented herself with watching all parties closely, and in amusing herself meanwhilefor amusement she must havein "Breaking a country heart For pastime, ere she went to town.

We young folks had met at a social gathering, and were engaged in a pastime in which we occasionally clasped hands together.

Those who remained on deck had at least the amusement of watching for the steamboat which was to bring the Southampton passengersa pastime which, however, being indefinitely prolonged, began to grow wearisome.

Stephen Hawes, The Pastime of Plesure, xxix. (1555).

This little work, at the suggestion of her friends, is presented and dedicated to the benevolent public, humbly hoping and trusting that it may give pastime to the leisure hour, impress more fully moral and religious sentiment, and afford some little return for the thought she has bestowed upon it.

Hunting, too, afforded a pleasurable and profitable pastime to the young when not engaged in the work of building houses, barns, and fences, and the boy of ten who could not pick off the head of a grouse or pheasant at thirty or forty yards was only fit to be "tied to mama's apron string."

Stow says, "that in the moneth of May, the citizens of London, of all estates, lightlie in every parish, or sometimes two or three parishes joyning together, had their severall Mayinges, and did fetch in Maypoles, with divers warlike showes, with good archers, morrice-dancers, and other devices for pastime all the day long, and towards the evening they had stage-playes and bone-fires in the streetes.

" The disuse of these ancient pastimes and the consequent neglect of Archerie, are thus lamented by Richard Niccols, in his London's Artillery, 1616: How is it that our London hath laid downe This worthy practise, which was once the crowne, Of all her pastime which her Robin Hood Had wont each yeare when May did clad the wood With lustre greene, to lead his young men out,

there were abashed as well for the straunge sight, as also for their sodain commyng, and after certayn daunces and pastime made, thei departed.

"Cupid | ne'er shall | make me | languish, I was | born a | -verse to | love; Lovers' | sighs, and | tears, and | anguish, Mirth and | pastime | to me | prove.

The moral lesson conveyed by this strange pastime or ceremony seems hardly calculated to secure for it a noteworthy popularity in any age; but for a long time it was, either as a ceremony or as a picture, very popular throughout Europe.

On the terrace of the garden overlooking the river a throng of the most notable people of the court and society, drawn hither by the novelty of the pastime and comfortably installed in chairs brought by their servants, with chaufferettes and furs to keep them protected from the intense cold, looked on at the shifting, swiftly moving pageant before them.

Then, on a sudden, I saw that the sun was changing shape, and growing smaller, just as the moon would have done in past time.

Are they true? If any one has in the past time offended Us angry creatures who soon take offence, These words in the prayer are surely intended To soften our minds, and expel wrath from thence.

But from the depths of the imaginative spirit Titian has recalled past time, and laid it contributory with the present to one simultaneous effect.

It was a costly and noble act; the authentic and ancient times of poesy were thus in some measure renewed, and neither present nor past time can furnish any record of such a solemnity having ever taken place in England.

The Past N. the past, past time; days of yore, times of yore, days of old, times of old, days past, times past, days gone by, times gone by; bygone days; old times, ancient times, former times; fore time; the good old days, the olden time, good old time; auld lang syne^; eld^. antiquity, antiqueness^, status quo; time immemorial; distance of time; remote age, remote time; remote past; rust of antiquity.

The Auberges of the old Knights, the Palace of the Grand Master, the Church of St. John, and other relics of past time, but more especially the fortifications, invest the place with a romantic interest, and I suspect that, after Venice and Granada, there are few cities where the Middle Ages have left more impressive traces of their history.

It was time to leave Savannah, past time.

Tenses expressing past time (Imperf. and Aorists Indic.) prefix ε ("syllabic augment") to the root; this coalesces with an initial vowel ("temporal augment") into the corresponding long vowel or diphthong.

He then set forth the nebular hypothesis that at some long past time our sun and all his planets existed but as a volume of gas, which in contracting and cooling formed a hot volume of rotating liquid, and that as this further contracted and cooled, the planets, and moons, and planetary rings fell off from it and gradually solidified, the sun being left as the solitary comparatively uncooled portion of the original nebula.

7."Grammarians generally make a present and a past time under the subjunctive mode.

pluperfect tense, when used conditionally, in stead of expressing what actually had taken place at a past time, almost always implies that the action thus supposed never was performed; on the contrary, if the supposition be made in a negative form, it suggests that the event had occurred: as, "Lord, if thou hadst been here, my brother had not died.

"To lay is regular, and has in the past time and participle layed or laid.

Bullions, Butler, Hiley, Perley, Wells, and some others, call the English pluperfect tense, the past-perfect, and understand either epithet to mean"completed at or before a certain past time;" (Bullions's E. Gram., p. 39;) that is"finished or past, at some past time.

Bullions, Butler, Hiley, Perley, Wells, and some others, call the English pluperfect tense, the past-perfect, and understand either epithet to mean"completed at or before a certain past time;" (Bullions's E. Gram., p. 39;) that is"finished or past, at some past time.

"A Verb in past time without a sign is Imperfect tense.

I say, "The Pluperfect Tense is that which expresses what had taken place at some past time mentioned: as, 'I had seen him, when I met you.'"

" Many months had passed since Beatrice's death, when Dante happened to be in a place which recalled the past time to him, and filled him with grief.

It was already long past time for the performance to begin.

To express a moral obligation in past time, combine ought with the perfect infinitive:

The pluperfect subjunctive expresses a false supposition in past time:

At no known past time have all human beings been represented in a government authorized to make and enforce world law.

" EXCEPTION.Ought, must, need, and should (in the sense of "ought") have no distinctive form to denote past time; with these verbs present time is denoted by putting the complementary infinitive in the present tense, past time is denoted by putting the complementary infinitive in the perfect tense: as, "You ought to go," "You ought to have gone;" "He should be careful," "He should have been careful."

If it refers to present or past time, it may be viewed by the speaker as true, untrue, or as a mere supposition with nothing implied as to its truth; if it refers to the future, it may be viewed as either likely or unlikely.

So much good has not been done by one effort in all past time as, in the providence of God, it is now your high privilege to do.

Past-Time Clairvoyance, as indicated by the name, is that class of clairvoyant phenomena which is concerned with the perception of facts, events and happenings of past time.