The same sources tell us that this game caught on pretty quickly and soon became a favourite pastime of the nobility and royalty.
Language play begins with baby-talk, blossoms with pastimes, and appears in its most sophisticated and complex form in literature.
It is manifest that drinking in bars is a major pastime among some foreigners.
It was a matter of being born into a family setting of musical pastimes.
Likewise, the singing of folk songs, necessarily easy to perform, became a very popular pastime by the end of the century.
In fact, he says, writing superfluous books is a quite harmless and permissible pastime, which should not be of concern to any third party.
Visiting dance halls had been a very important pastime for many older people.
Science as fashionable pastime has become a familiar theme in eighteenth-century studies.
