"favourite" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- But they would try, he said, only the more, on this account to make him happy, and to beguile him with his favourite pursuits.
- Shooting, fishing, and gardening were his favourite pursuits.
- He made law his profession, but his favourite pursuit was the study of natural science.
- Not upon your view; for according to you he would be casting a slur upon his own favourite pursuit.
- Success in one's favourite pursuit is a temptress; whose yields to her wiles limits his own growth.
- His family's wealth gave him leisure for his favourite pursuits: gardening and the study of English poets.
- One of Henry's favourite pursuits, alongside hunting and dancing, was to wage war.
- Though his studies were thus of a some-what multifarious nature, yet it is plain that from the first his most favourite pursuit was astronomy.
- His favourite pursuit was the art of war and, in this, he conformed to the medieval notion of good kingship.
- When not engaged in writing his next novel, his favourite pursuits are history, the early movie business, and fly fishing.
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