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.