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Meanings of real vocation in English

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Usage of real vocation in English
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She had a real vocation for the profession of a consulting lawyer.
Samuel Brohl and Company
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That was in 1834, and by accident he hit upon his real vocation.
American Men of Mind
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He agreed with Mr. Carmady that a real vocation is a rare thing.
The Untilled Field
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Mr. John Burns is at his real vocation when addressing a great multitude.
The Rise of the Democracy
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In the war, of course, he found his real vocation.
The Mountebank
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When Doddy came to Ardmuirland, Bildy discovered his real vocation!
Up in Ardmuirland
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As a novelist, she had found her real vocation.
Famous Affinities of History: The Romance of Devotion. Volume 4
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Their real vocation in life is imparting information.
Literary Lapses
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As all the world knows now, her real vocation was the ante-natal destruction of unwelcome babies.
Danger! A True History of a Great City's Wiles and Temptations /...
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She didn't try to conceal from him her real vocation, for that would have been too silly.
The Best British Short Stories of 1922
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I think I had a real vocation for nursing, and would have been happy as a hospital nurse.
Agahta christie: an autobiography
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From my boyhood I have had an intense and overwhelming conviction that my real vocation lay in the direction of literature.
The Captain of the Polestar, and Other Tales
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He was an elderly trawler, respectable as they make them, who, after many years of fishing, had discovered his real vocation.
Sea Warfare
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To many minds a taste, and even a singular capacity, for an avocation has injured the work done in the real vocation.
Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Vol...
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But they are alike in this: whatever they do by way of avocation, the real vocation of their life is to make money.
Joy and Power: Three Messages with One Meaning
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You begin to feel that you misjudged his real vocation in life when you decided that he ought to be a boiler maker.
Cobb's Anatomy
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