pastime-labour

Updated: June 2, 2025

I never dared speak to him until he spoke to me; but used to sit quietly enough sharpening bolts or twisting bowstrings, or cleaning his Pistols, or furbishing up his Hanger and Belt, or suchlike boyish pastime-labour.

George Augustus Sala - The Strange Adventures of Captain Dangerous, Vol. 1 : Who was a sailor, a soldier, a merchant, a spy, a slave : among the moors...