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"Whist is my uncle's hobby and he is enthusiastic over a clever game." Winston groaned inwardly. "And I am a fool at whist." "Then it was poker you played?" and again a faint trace of anger crept into the girl's eyes. Winston shook his head. "No," he said. "I had few opportunities of indulging in expensive luxuries."
For there is no destructive agency like a doctor with a hygienic hobby. If your constitution be a salt or sugar one, he will melt you away with damp sheets and duckings; if you are as exsanguine as a turnip, his scientific delight in getting blood out of you will be only heightened. For such erratic enthusiasms as this of Dr. Coles we want a milder term than monomania.
A. V. Roe, head of the well-known firm A. V. Roe & Co., of Manchester, and constructor of the highly-efficient Avro machines. As a youth Roe's great hobby was the construction of toy models of various forms of machinery, and later on he achieved considerable success in the production of aeroplane models.
It arrived almost as soon as the messenger, and invaded my uncle Lovell's dining-room, reaching nearly as high as the top of the table. The goods traffic to and from London was carried on by an enormous waggon, which made the journey once or twice a week. Passengers generally travelled by the Times coach, a hobby of Mr. Whitbread's.
They had sought for some means of striking at him and they had found the materials of a hobby! He rose heavily and walked away from the crowd. On the East Common he stood still and gazed back hesitatingly at this restless sea of humanity, which was now beginning to break up, and would presently melt away into the darkness.
He came to consider him a friend by accident the accident of a club, where, finding themselves sitting down to dine at the same moment, they had taken the same table. Primarily, it was an opportunity to adjust some loose ends of Chip's domestic affairs; incidentally, they stumbled on a common hobby in Victorian English politics.
"He is well aware what a deep interest I take in my hobby." "And also that you are one of the first authorities in the world upon the subject," added his daughter. The old man sighed. Would that he could see with his eyes once again; for, after all, the sense of touch was but a poor substitute for that of sight! He drew towards him the impression of the second of the oval seals.
And there were days, like the present, when her face would wrinkle with a frown as she tried to work out some problem in photography. Picture-taking was her hobby, and when the other girls skipped and danced about, Shirley would often trudge along burdened with a camera and tripod. Joy was all sunshine.
At first he spent his spare time and his spare money upon it, but as the hobby took possession of him, he devoted all his time and all his money to it; then he pawned his clothes, and then he raised money on the furniture; the brokers came in, and finally the poor fellow was taken to a lunatic asylum, and his wife and family were thrown on the parish. The story impressed Hubert strangely.
This is my passion my hobby this is me!" "Her enemies! You are political?" "Desperately!" "A Tory?" "Fanatical. But that's only part of it, 'What should they know of England, that only England know!" Miss Mallory threw back her head with a gesture that became it. "Ah, I see an Imperialist?" Diana nodded, smiling. She had seated herself in a chair by the fireside.
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