Amusing

Examples

• I don't tell amusing stories, he said curtly, and walked across to the piano. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
• It was very funny, full of amusing and absurd situations; but Gould never smiled once. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• Don't be like Patience on a mantelpiece frowning at Dolls, but sit down, and I'll tell you something that you really will find amusing. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• It was almost as amusing to the Victorian English as the story of Balaam's ass. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• I approved, for my part, the amusing one's self with poetry now and then, so far as to improve one's language, but no farther. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• And there will be amusing things to do. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• I should hope you gentlemen of the army may find many means of amusing yourselves if you give your minds to it. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• Then, as to sitting here or there, or amusing yourself in any manner indicated, that need cause you no inconvenience. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
• How comparatively easy the task of amusing these people if he were present! Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• You can make almost any theme amusing to me, Eugene, but not this. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• He was rather a favourite with the regiment, treating the young officers with sumptuosity, and amusing them by his military airs. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• Edison tells an amusing story of his own pursuits at this time. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• And this occupation or agitation of the mind is commonly agreeable and amusing. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• I might look in there now; the Fisher evenings are amusing. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• Their faces show a considerable share of frankness combined with amusing na?veté. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• It must be an amusing study. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
• He tells an amusing story of one dilemma into which his good-nature led him at this period: At Menlo Park one day, a farmer came in and asked if I knew any way to kill potato-bugs. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• Is it some amusing joke? Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
• Thomson's Seasons, Hayley's Cowper, Middleton's Cicero, were by far the lightest, newest, and most amusing. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• She was pretty, amusing and accomplished: what more did any one want? Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
• Nothing is more amusing than his complete submission when he has been once thoroughly beaten. Plato. The Republic.
• A visit to Mrs. Manson Mingott was always an amusing episode to the young man. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
• They were so much more amusing than all the jog-trot Harley Street ways. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• Martin had heard certain rumours; it struck him that it might be amusing to make an experiment. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• That very dear part of Emma, her fancy, received an amusing supply. Jane Austen. Emma.
• Gordon, Brunton and Gurney attempted a curious and amusing steam carriage, resembling a horse in action--having jointed legs and feet, but this animal was not successful. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• The women here are as amusing as those in May Fair, she told an old London friend who met her, only, their dresses are not quite so fresh. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• We shall be only amusing ourselves. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
• The visit, even in my shattered condition, proved to be a most amusing one--thanks entirely to the presence on the scene of Gabriel Betteredge. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• Elinor used to tell her sisters that she married me for my ugliness--it was so various and amusing that it had quite conquered her prudence. George Eliot. Middlemarch.

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