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For almost any other vocation or avocation—singer, potter, zookeeper, any doctor apart from a surgeon—it wouldn't have mattered.† (source)
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As an avocation it was fine, but not as a career.† (source)
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When he was advised that he had no avocation, he left the island, came to America to study the then budding field of psychiatry.† (source)
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After my bomb avocation, I became the organizer of the supercolossal fruit roll.† (source)
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He was a poet and a goldsmith by avocation, made his living as a limo driver.† (source)
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There were two reasons for that: her job as slave labor at the cancer ward and her avocation as a second-degree black belt, a Nidan.† (source)
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My early years as a naturalist were free and fascinating, but as I entered manhood and found that my avocation must now become my vocation, the walls began to close in.† (source)
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Other avocations.† (source)
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"Avocation," Alessandro interrupted.† (source)
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The majority of the searchers had given up the quest and gone back to their daily avocations, saying that it was plain the children could never be found.† (source)
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He'd climb to the summit those of his avocation respected most, and he'd dedicate his climb to Christa's memory.† (source)
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Yet he was pursuing his ordinary avocations, smiling mechanically to fellow-tradesmen, and arguing with bargainers—as bereaved men do after a while.† (source)
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I was an artist by vocation, and now by avocation—although it's been considerably more challenging to get my supplies in a place like this.† (source)
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As soon as they were established in their new residence, and her father had entered on the routine of his avocations, she arranged the little household as exactly as if her husband had been there.† (source)
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Judges cannot be too separate from every other avocation than that of expounding the laws.† (source)
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On that morning when Magua led his silent party from the settlement of the beavers into the forests, in the manner described, the sun rose upon the Delaware encampment as if it had suddenly burst upon a busy people, actively employed in all the customary avocations of high noon.† (source)
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