I shall not, however, multiply professions on this head.
His flatteries delude, and his professions of affection gratify you.
All professions, they say, even the lowest, are or may be vocations.
Her professions of attachment were now as disgusting as her excuses were empty, and her demands impudent.
In a democracy, those of marked ability can more easily move into the better-paid callings and professions.
I do not know why the Bar has always seemed the most respectable of the professions, a profession which the hero of almost any novel could adopt without losing caste.
His boys went to good solid schools, and were put to respectable professions; his girls, in spite of a fantastic protest or so, were all married to suitable, steady, oldish young men with good prospects.
There's one thing that's the matter with Gopher Prairie, at least with the ruling-class (there is a ruling-class, despite all our professions of democracy). And the penalty we tribal rulers pay is that our subjects watch us every minute.
'I am about to establish myself in one of the provincial towns of our favoured island (where the society may be described as a happy admixture of the agricultural and the clerical), in immediate connexion with one of the learned professions.