262 adjectives to describe amusements

I proposed to draw lots, which formed a little amusement of itself.

I didn't mind what games he played on the Giant as long as the Giant wasn't made to break anything that would lay him on the shelf, and I told the Dwarf that I was the last man to interfere with any man's innocent amusements, but that in case the Giant happened to break a leg, I should go out of the Giant and Dwarf business at once.

They are no mere amusement, though they are amusement.

It had been one of my favourite amusements to ramble towards a part of the western ridge, which rose in a cone about a mile and a half from the village, and there ascending to some comparatively level spot, or point projecting from its side, enjoy the beautiful scenery which lay before me, and the evening breeze, which has such a delicious freshness in a tropical climate.

It was a favorite amusement with us passengers on board the to go forward about pumping-time to the break of the deck and listen.

In the end, four of them occupied the next two hours (to the infinite but masked amusement of the town) in floundering about in the mud, setting up tents in the boggy wood above the settlement, and with much pains transporting thither as many of their possessions as they did not lose in the bottomless pit of the mire.

We soon lifted the wagon out of the ditch, and then resumed our drive, running into camp under full headway, and creating considerable amusement.

He sunk into an indolent voluptuary, pleased by childish amusements.

One day we drove into a small Missouri town or hamlet which lay on our route, where the farmers from the surrounding country were congregated for the purpose of having a holidaythe principal amusement being horse-racing.

I believe he read my thoughts, for it seemed to me that for an instant genuine amusement was written in his glance, but there were few genuine emotions he allowed free play.

But, on the other hand, I must plead guilty to deriving considerable harmless amusement from your efforts to dress as an example and an irritant to all Lichfield.

There was none who had a stronger sense of the value of literature, a finer relish for every elegant amusement, or a more chivalrous delicacy of honor and love.

At the same time, he showed the world that literary amusements were not likely, as has more than once happened to royal students, to withdraw him from the care of the kingdom, or make him forget his interest.

Every one wanted so agreeable an amusement, and the Coffee-houses began to be sensible that the Esquire's Lucubrations alone had brought them more customers, than all their other News Papers put together.

The effect was to disgust her more with the world and mere worldly amusements, and to fix her heart more surely where true peace can alone be found.

He was smiling down with an air of faint amusement; yet beneath the lashes she read a command which mastered her will, imposed silence.

Tops and marbles afford a great deal of rational amusement to the young; and of a very useful kind, too.

It was not because pugilism was a fashionable amusement in those days that I attended a "set-to" occasionally; I went on my own account, not to ape people in the fashionable world, and enjoyed it on my own account, not because they liked it, but because I did.

Yet, lest any should say that the Emperor neglects his duties, absorbed in idle amusement, I will refer thy invention to the chief armourers of my capital.

"What the devil made you ask me that?" Howard eyed the handsome face with cynical amusement.

But she held him by a method diametrically contrary to that which rumor, stirred by Flavia Titiana, indicated; Cornificia's house was a place where he could lay aside the feverish activities of public life and revel in the intellectual and philosophical amusements that he genuinely loved.

He had very little patience with frivolous amusements or degrading pursuits.

The Romans, among the other barbarous amusements which were practiced in the city, were specially fond of combats.

They remained behind for a reasonwhich an accidental expression of Byron let outmuch to my secret amusement; for I was aware they would be disappointed, and the anticipation was relishing.

But by then they had entirely ceased to care, being engrossed in watching Mr. Tutt at his daily amusement of torturing O'Brien into a state of helpless exasperation.

262 adjectives to describe  amusements