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Citizen, beeing a man bountifull, magnificent, and within the degree of Knighthoode: continually kept both Hawkes and Hounds, taking no meane delight in such pleasures as they yeelded, neglecting (for them) farre more serious imployments, wherewith our present subject presumeth not to meddle.

The Decameron 2004

Poet, and a seruant, of trusty account, to _Augustus_, whose court and study-imployments would haue said he should haue little knowledge in rurall businesse, yet who hath set downe more excellently the manner of

The English Husbandman The First Part: Contayning the Knowledge of the true Nature of euery Soyle within this Kingdome: how to Plow it; and the manner of the Plough, and other Instruments Gervase Markham

The council thus ended, the rest betake them several ways and to several imployments, as their inclinations lead them, to entertain the time till Satan return.

Paradise Lost: The Second Book 1909

Law, of Religion, of the Navy and (since his present Majestie's time) of the Army, that it seems as if the Nation could scarce furnish honest men enow to supply all those imployments.

Andrew Marvell Birrell, Augustine, 1850-1933 1905

An account of the particularities of the imployments of the English men left in Virginia by Richard Greenevill under the charge of Master Ralph Lane Generall of the same, from the 17. of August 1585. until the 18. of June 1586. at which time they departed the Countrey; sent and directed to Sir Walter Ralegh.

Raleigh's First Roanoke Colony. 1902

An account of the particularities of the imployments of the English men left in Virginia by Richard Greenevill under the charge of Master Ralph Lane Generall of the same, from the 17. of August 1585. until the 18. of June 1586. at which time they departed the Countrey; sent and directed to Sir Walter Ralegh.

Raleigh's First Roanoke Colony. 1902

An account of the particularities of the imployments of the English men left in Virginia by Richard Greenevill under the charge of Master Ralph Lane Generall of the same, from the 17. of August 1585. until the 18. of June 1586. at which time they departed the Countrey; sent and directed to Sir Walter Ralegh:

Raleigh's First Roanoke Colony. 1902

An account of the particularities of the imployments of the English men left in Virginia by Sir Richard Greenevill under the charge of Master Ralph Lane Generall of the same, from the 17. of August 1585. until the 18. of June 1586. at which time they departed the Countrey: sent and directed to Sir Walter Ralegh.

Electronic Text Center at the University of Virginia Library Washington Hilleary 1861

I could of Mr. Povy; for, of all the men in the world, I never knew any man of his degree so great a coxcomb in such imployments.

Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete Samuel Pepys 1668

I could of Mr. Povy; for, of all the men in the world, I never knew any man of his degree so great a coxcomb in such imployments.

Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete 1664 N.S. Samuel Pepys 1668