Citations:profession


 * 1678 — John Bunyan. The Pilgrim's Progress.
 * Not that anything can be accepted that is not of faith, but I speak this to show you how insignificant the profession of Talkative will be at that day.


 * 1818 — Mary Shelley. Frankenstein.
 * My lieutenant, for instance, is a man of wonderful courage and enterprise; he is madly desirous of glory, or rather, to word my phrase more characteristically, of advancement in his profession.
 * I fear that he will become an idler unless we yield the point and permit him to enter on the profession which he has selected.