...This census is quoted merely for the purpose of giving a general idea of the employments of the inhabitants...
David Livingstone 「Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa」
..., the people were still sadlydeficient in a knowledge of agriculture—a profession, which, as Humewisely remarks, of all employments, requires the most reflection andexperience...
Ambrose Blacklock 「A Treatise on Sheep:」
...Hence I object to cock-fighting, pigeon or sparrow-shooting, and ratting—all mean and cowardly employments, and quite unfitted for men above the rank of the commonest navvy...
Gordon Stables 「The Domestic Cat」
...“The hunt of the tapir is one of the amusements, or rather employments, of the South-American Indians...
Mayne Reid 「The Hunters' Feast」
...In fact, buffalo-hunting is one of the chief employments of the inhabitants of that half-Indian colony known as the “Red River Settlements...
Mayne Reid 「The Hunters' Feast」
..."In regard to dancing women, prostitutes, brothels, night work, and all other improper employments, all these are like caterpillars or locusts in the country...
Sidney L. Gulick 「Evolution Of The Japanese, Social And Psychic」
...Without it—a superior finder being wanting—our"half-hours" would soon be wasted away in that most wearisome andannoying of all employments, trying to "pick up" celestial objects...
Richard A. Proctor 「Half-hours with the Telescope」
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