passtime

Definitions

Obsolete spelling of pastime.

alt-of, obsolete

Examples

“You will by this time think⟳ I am in love⟳ with her; so before I go any further I will tell⟳ you I am not — she kept me awake⟳ one Night as a tune⟳ of Mozart's might do — I speak⟳ of the thing as a passtime and an amuzement than which I can feel⟳ none deeper than a conversation with an imperial woman the very ‘yes’ and ‘no’ of whose Lips is to me a Banquet.”

“Some engage⟳ in bee culture for the pleasure it affords them as a passtime; others as a means of furnishing their own⟳ tables with one of natures richest luxuries, while others engage⟳ in it as an occupation for the dollars and cents that may realize⟳ from it.”

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