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Definition
a particular type of job
- "The vocation will fit you to a hair," I thought: "much good may it do you!"Chapter 22 (17% in)
- If even this stranger had smiled and been good-humoured to me when I addressed him; if he had put off my offer of assistance gaily and with thanks, I should have gone on my way and not felt any vocation to renew inquiries: but the frown, the roughness of the traveller, set me at my ease: I retained my station when he waved to me to go, and announced — "I cannot think of leaving you, sir, at so late an hour, in this solitary lane, till I see you are fit to mount your horse."Chapter 12 (63% in)
- Mr. St. John had said nothing to me yet about the employment he had promised to obtain for me; yet it became urgent that I should have a vocation of some kind.Chapter 30 (40% in)
- I, who preached contentment with a humble lot, and justified the vocation even of hewers of wood and drawers of water in God's service — I, His ordained minister, almost rave in my restlessness.Chapter 30 (79% in)
- What! my vocation?Chapter 32 (78% in)
- As for me, I daily wished more to please him; but to do so, I felt daily more and more that I must disown half my nature, stifle half my faculties, wrest my tastes from their original bent, force myself to the adoption of pursuits for which I had no natural vocation.Chapter 34 (46% in)
- "I am not fit for it: I have no vocation," I said.Chapter 34 (64% in)
- One fitted to my purpose, you mean — fitted to my vocation.Chapter 34 (81% in)
There are no more uses of "vocation" in Jane Eyre.
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