The ordinary occupations were gone, and people spent most of their time trying to kill one another.
To close to a worker all but the menial occupations is to take from him the most powerful motives for effort.
There are, however, occupations in the city for women, by which they may support themselves or their families.
These occupations do not end here, for they are intrepid hunters, or, if they prefer it, intrepid fishers for the manatee.
I could join with Diana and Mary in all their occupations; converse with them as much as they wished, and aid them when and where they would allow me.
In this manner I distributed my occupations when I first arrived, but as I proceeded in my labour, it became every day more horrible and irksome to me.
It requires that our clothing be in keeping with our sex, fortune, profession, age, and form, as well as with the season, the different hours of the day and our different occupations.
She could hardly tell what to say at first, and was thankful for all the tea-table occupations, which gave her an excuse for keeping silence, and him an opportunity of recovering himself.
All ranks and occupations therefore joined with a new energy in the contest it provoked. Particularly was the religious sentiment of the North profoundly moved by the moral question involved.
This was the first time that she had touched her brushes since the children's coming, and she had hoped that this one afternoon would be free from interruption, when she heard them planning their afternoon's occupations at the lunch-table.