Entertaining

Examples

• I saw the word, and am curious to know how it could be so very entertaining to the one, and so very distressing to the other. Jane Austen. Emma.
• But sometimes of an evening, before we went to cards, he would read something aloud out of the Elegant Extracts, very entertaining. Jane Austen. Emma.
• The people here live in alleys two yards wide, which have a smell about them which is peculiar but not entertaining. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• But, he intimated that when she came home he should hope to have the pleasure of entertaining me. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• He sat entertaining them with his finest compliments, and his choicest conversation; but he conveyed to them, all the time, 'No, no, no, dear ladies. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• When the strange idea flashed across her that his words had reference to himself, she was incredulous, and ashamed of entertaining it. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• Hows'ever,' said he, 'this isn't entertaining to Miss Bella. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• Fred is very entertaining, and is altogether the most agreeable young man I ever knew--except Laurie, whose manners are more charming. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• We forgive them for entertaining such notions, but forbid their practice. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• Eugene Wrayburn looked on at him, as if he found him beginning to be rather an entertaining study. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• What a number of them he had; and what a noble way of entertaining them. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• After entertaining company, when dinner was over he would go out to correct any negligence in the service with a leather thong. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• When I found myself on my feet, I looked about me, and must confess I never beheld a more entertaining prospect. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
• But aside from the disappearance of those entertaining puppets, all else is gain in the creation of this new art. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• I have very strong reasons indeed, for entertaining that wish. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• Singular and entertaining combination, sir, your friend. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• We made a pleasant journey down into Lincolnshire by the coach and had an entertaining companion in Mr. Skimpole. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• Your experience has been a most entertaining one, remarked Holmes as his client paused and refreshed his memory with a huge pinch of snuff. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
• Your conversation is most entertaining, said he. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
• He had two or three reasons for entertaining a faint partiality to that gentleman. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• However, the event showed me I was a fool for entertaining a sense even of surprise. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• After all,' said Mr. Pickwick, as he drained the last drop, 'his pranks are really very amusing; very entertaining indeed. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• There is also in late years a great variety of entertaining and instructive apparatus in photography, and improvements in the stereopticon and magic lantern. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.

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