"Amuse" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... no surprise could stir out of his cool native audacity, answered that it would be better for his cousin to go and amuse himself in his world of poetical imagination, and to leave the business of life to men who understood ...
— Red Cap Tales - Stolen from the Treasure Chest of the Wizard of the North • Samuel Rutherford Crockett
... the aim of the author has been, not only to interest and amuse, but also to stimulate a taste for scientific study. He has utilized natural science as a peg whereon to hang the web of a narrative of absorbing interest, interweaving therewith sundry very striking scientific facts in such a manner as to provoke ...
— Historic Boys - Their Endeavours, Their Achievements, and Their Times • Elbridge Streeter Brooks
... of the hippopotami in these marsh districts to lie in the high grass swamps during the day, and to swim or amuse themselves in the ...
— Ismailia • Samuel W. Baker
... was the feet that profited by the comparison. Still, he knew that the whole conversation would amuse his wife, and rushed off to tell her ...
— "Wee Tim'rous Beasties" - Studies of Animal life and Character • Douglas English
... in his contests with his room-mates, no anger ever appeared on the part of the mocking-bird; everything seemed done to amuse himself and pass away the weary hours, rather than from desire to hurt his neighbors. In fact, he never did positively touch a bird, to my knowledge, though he always acted as though he intended to annihilate them. He could ...
— In Nesting Time • Olive Thorne Miller
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