'They haven't any children, and they make a kind of hobby of entertaining in an unconventional way.'

But he said he could not go home to answer charges he did not understand and leave an island which had been his very successful hobby for so many years!

The first cotton-picking season that came round after my marriage seemed to afford Charlie no end of opportunities for riding his hobby at a fast and furious pace.

His hobby in the direction of toxicology, to begin with.

I'm free to confess that your religion looks a bit cold and hard to me, even here in the good city where each man may ride his own hobby to death, and hoot at his neighbors as much as he will.

The revival of the steamboat trade on our great rivers, and the recovering from the railroads of at least a portion of the trade stolen away, is a pet hobby among river men generally, and especially among those whose parents taught them from the cradle up the true importance of the magnificent internal waterways bountifully provided for our native land by an all-wise Providence.