Citations:amusement

English citations of amusement

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1719 — Daniel Defoe. Robinson Crusoe.
This confusion of my thoughts kept me awake all night; but in the morning I fell asleep; and having, by the amusement of my mind, been as it were tired, and my spirits exhausted, I slept very soundly, and waked much better composed than I had ever been before.

1818 — Mary Shelley. Frankenstein.
Sometimes I grew alarmed at the wreck I perceived that I had become; the energy of my purpose alone sustained me: my labours would soon end, and I believed that exercise and amusement would then drive away incipient disease; and I promised myself both of these when my creation should be complete.

I did not, like him, attempt a critical knowledge of their dialects, for I did not contemplate making any other use of them than temporary amusement.

After so long a period of an absorbing melancholy that resembled madness in its intensity and effects, he was glad to find that I was capable of taking pleasure in the idea of such a journey, and he hoped that change of scene and varied amusement would, before my return, have restored me entirely to myself.

1959, Georges Simenon, Une Confidence de Maigret, 1959, Presses de la Cité, Paris, p. 9
Le médecin de quartier qui, quelques instants plus tôt, détendu, souriant, suivait avec amusement la scène du gâteau de riz, semblait maintenant très loin de la salle à manger quiète et bourgeoise.