1 But it's nice for gentlemen to have a hobby, though they do gather the dust--those skulls and things.
2 The man who had begun by being merely her amusement, and would never have been more than her hobby but for his skill in deserting her at the right moments, was now again her desire.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContext Highlight In BOOK 1: 10 A Desperate Attempt at Persuasion 3 It is a hobby of mine to have an exact knowledge of London.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In II. THE RED-HEADED LEAGUE 4 Because that is my special hobby.
The Hound of the Baskervilles By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In Chapter 4. Sir Henry Baskerville 5 But this is my special hobby, and the differences are equally obvious.
The Hound of the Baskervilles By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In Chapter 4. Sir Henry Baskerville 6 What is to me a means of livelihood is to him the merest hobby of a dilettante.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In X. The Adventure of The Greek Interpreter 7 Mrs. Fisher's latest hobby was municipal reform.
8 Well, a taste for society's just another kind of hobby.
9 Then she found a hobby in sociology.
10 Just now his hobby is catching flies.
11 That's my profession; also my hobby.
12 Mr. Bhaer soon joined her, looking rather out of his element, and presently several of the philosophers, each mounted on his hobby, came ambling up to hold an intellectual tournament in the recess.
13 Kennicott had five hobbies: medicine, land-investment, Carol, motoring, and hunting.
14 This month of romance she was eager to understand his hobbies.