| Robert Edgeworth, a Virgil scholar who teaches at Louisiana State University, in Baton Rouge, is in politics purely avocationally these days. |
| Temperamentally John Burroughs was an optimist, as vocationally he was a writer, and avocationally a vine-dresser. |
| A drummer who had a band in college and performed on the early Glenn Miller recordings, Mr. Simon played avocationally for most of his life. |
| Temperamentally Mr. Burroughs is an optimist, as vocationally he is a writer, and avocationally a vine-dresser. |
| He was equally busy until very recently with private tuition and, among his innumerable students, were many who became professional musicians, alongside others who studied avocationally, such as the actor Warren Mitchell. |
| But I think I learned enough about it to know that I love doing it avocationally. |
