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This wheeling and dealing, not inter-team rivalries, are our new national pastime,
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The damned shall think their pains mere mirth and pastime,
The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor, Vol. I, No. 5, May 1810
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Worshipping in pure Hindu temples is to that people but a pastime,
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The dean, having received the messengers, took special care that the knowledge of their arrival should be kept, if possible, from the ears and eyes of Adam de Dutton, who happened for several days at that season to be hunting in the forest, where a mighty slaughter of game -- wolves, bears, and such like -- was the result; in which dangerous pastime,
Traditions of Lancashire, Volume 1 (of 2) John Roby 1821
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The 2010 Major League Baseball season officially begins on April 4, and to commemorate America's favorite pastime,
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Because the game contains a hidden nod to our own favorite digital pastime,
WoW.com 2009
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Wandering over ground once trod by George Carlin, above, Bryan Curtis has a thought-provoking piece in the Week in Review today about whether football can lay claim to the crown as the national pastime,
The Fifth Down 2009
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Wandering over ground once trod by George Carlin, above, Bryan Curtis has a thought-provoking piece in the Week in Review today about whether football can lay claim to the crown as the national pastime,
NYT > Home Page 2009
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Because the game contains a hidden nod to our own favorite digital pastime,
WoW.com 2009
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Because the game contains a hidden nod to our own favorite digital pastime,
WoW.com 2009
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