amusement

It will be proper to go over again more particularly what we then said, which may serve as an introduction to what any other person may choose to offer thereon; for it is no easy matter to distinctly point out what power it has, nor on what accounts one should apply it, whether as an amusement and refreshment, as sleep or wine; as these are nothing serious, but pleasing, and the killers of care, as Euripides says; for which reason they class in the same order and use for the same purpose all these, namely, sleep, wine, and music, to which some add dancing; or shall we rather suppose that music tends to be productive of virtue, having a power, as the gymnastic exercises have to form the body in a certain way, to influence the manners so as to accustom its professors to rejoice rightly?

And on his own account he was anxious to enjoy to the utmost all Russian forms of amusement. Vronsky was obliged to be his guide in satisfying both these inclinations.

I thought that doctrine admitted some doubt, but merely replied--'If they were, we have no right to torment them for our amusement.'

When Marianne was recovered, the schemes of amusement at home and abroad, which Sir John had been previously forming, were put into execution.

The soup fell out of the long bill of the Crane at every mouthful, and his vexation at not being able to eat afforded the Fox much amusement. The Crane, in his turn, asked the Fox to sup with him, and set before her a flagon with a long narrow mouth, so that he could easily insert his neck and enjoy its contents at his leisure.

Society has claims on us all; and I profess myself one of hose who consider intervals of recreation and amusement as desirable for everybody."

"No, no!" cried Mazarin, fearing that should his prisoner ever leave his prison he would be the more exasperated against him if he thus retrenched his amusement. He then asked with whom he played.

When I am taken up by a thought, all else is mere amusement."

"Let us distinguish ourselves by inventing some entirely new amusement for the day.

The death agonies of a fellow being are, to these strange creatures provocative of the wildest hilarity, while their chief form of commonest amusement is to inflict death on their prisoners of war in various ingenious and horrible ways.

In the early days of this amusement Edgar Caswall spent hours.

"Look here, if you don't invent some new employment or amusement for me, I shall knock myself on the head as sure as you live."