1 Nevertheless, some of the animals were disturbed when they heard that the pigs not only took their meals in the kitchen and used the drawing-room as a recreation room, but also slept in the beds.
2 The Emperor of Japan, on a steady old white horse stencilled with black spots, was twirling five wash-hand basins at once, as it is the favourite recreation of that monarch to do.
3 Besides, that would be all recreation and indulgence, without the wholesome alloy of labour, and I do not like to eat the bread of idleness.
4 At recreation hours it suffices to have a ball roll aside, to send them all hither, in spite of prohibitions, to hunt and rummage for it all about here.
Les Misérables (V2) By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 8: CHAPTER I—WHICH TREATS OF THE MANNER OF ENTERING A CONVEN... 5 There will be no recreation hour.
Les Misérables (V2) By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 8: CHAPTER I—WHICH TREATS OF THE MANNER OF ENTERING A CONVEN... 6 At recreation hours, Jean Valjean watched her running and playing in the distance, and he distinguished her laugh from that of the rest.
Les Misérables (V2) By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 8: CHAPTER IX—CLOISTERED 7 For recreation he could twiddle his thumbs and speculate on the thoughts which must agitate the minds of the generals.
8 Newspapers are to me a constant source of delight and recreation.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. WashingtonContext Highlight In Chapter XV. 9 She walked back through Wilmette and Evanston, discovered new forms of suburban architecture, and remembered her desire to recreate villages.
10 I can now recreate life in a way that was hidden from me before.
11 Ah, but she was not merely a twitcher of individual strings; she was one who seethes wandering bodies and floating voices in a cauldron, and makes rise up from its amorphous mass a recreated world.
12 Yet his plump, healthy-looking cheeks were so robustly constituted, and contained such an abundance of recreative vigour, that a new whisker soon sprouted in place of the old one, and even surpassed its predecessor.