What does passtime mean?
Passtime means Obsolete spelling of pastime..
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Pronunciation varies by accent · noun
Obsolete spelling of pastime..
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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Passtime means Obsolete spelling of pastime..
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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.
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