"Find recreation in the Arts.

It emphasizes the value of decency and gives healthy and high toned recreation to millions.

Men who work day after day in the open air, and to whom a half-holiday is a very rare experience, naturally seek their recreations in less energetic fashion than the noble game of cricket demands of its votaries.

I need recreation now.

Mr. Schoolcraft's persevering industry is so indomitable, that he has been known to write from sun to sun almost every day for many consecutive years, taking no recreation, and yet these sedentary habits of untiring application being regulated by system, have not impaired the digestive functions of his usually robust health.

In these researches some of these men had to be sought after in almost every part of Portugal; and being separated in sundry places, my inquiries have occasioned great travel of my person, and much expence; to which I have devoted the greater part of my life, and have constituted the preparation for this work my sole recreation.

The country hath his recreations, the city his several gymnics and exercises, May games, feasts, wakes, and merry meetings, to solace themselves; the very being in the country; that life itself is a sufficient recreation to some men, to enjoy such pleasures, as those old patriarchs did.

What right have we to say that they shall know no higher recreation than the hogs, because, forsooth, if we raised them, they might refuse to workFOR US?

It is his trade to do good, and to think of it his recreation.

Such was the effect of his Lordship's illness on the public mind, that all classes had forgotten their usual recreations of Easter, even before the afflicting event was apprehended.

The present nobleman appeared to favour the aristocratic recreation of driving a cab or job-master's carriage, and, as he entered the room, he touched his hat, closed the door somewhat carefully, and then, without remark, handed me a note which bore the superscription "Dr. Stillbury.

Cards and now and then a little music form the evening recreations.

In the long run, how infinitely better, how much more economical for the city to furnish these recreations, normally and decently conducted, than to bear the consequences of an order of things like the present one.

Ask those who make hunting their recreation or business, if in their excursions they meet with many sick or feeble animals.

Charity includes a largely increased recreation for the people, State provision for many more classes of the invalid and incompetent, specialized homes for various sorts of infirm or inebriate, and some little charity in the guise of bounties of seed, etc., to needy farmers, which latter, however, have usually been held unconstitutional.

She had been, as she afterwards remembered, impressed with a nervous restlessness one afternoon, which made it impossible for her to perform her ordinary household duties, or even to indulge her favorite recreation of reading or castle-building.

It was not until her mother began to put a gentle pressure upon her in order to prevent her gathering too many apples, and joining in too many other rural recreations with Mr. Haverley, that she thought of him as one who was not to be considered in the light of a brother.

Christmas and the summer lay-by brought recreation, but the hog-killing brought fat satisfaction.

And high time was it that she went; in sooth, The boredom of a royal court at times Makes recreation a necessity.

It grieves me to mar your harmless recreation, but even that mortification I must endure when it comes in the strict line of my duty.

He has made of Rheinsberg a veritable little Court of the Muses, devoted now to serious study, now to poetic recreation.

A smile, an encouraging word from Ferragut, and he would have immediately proposed other recreations whose announcement appeared to be fluttering around his lips.

for whose only sake Those doughty knights such dangers undertake, 40 When they with happy gales are gone away, With your propitious presence grace our play; And with a sigh their empty seats survey: Then think, on that bare bench my servant sat; I see him ogle still, and hear him chat; Selling facetious bargains, and propounding That witty recreation, call'd dumfounding.

As Bennington had resolved not to make his reading mere recreation, he drew diagrams conscientiously until he understood it.

That's all one, 'tis my Recreation; I serv'd a Woman so the other night, to whom my Mistress had a Pique.