His learning was more of the court and camp than of the bookshelf,a defect which I soon discovered,and I loved to set him tripping over some quibble of words, a proceeding which amused me vastly, though my mirth was shared by none of the others who witnessed it.

This clumsy German ex-diplomat amused him immensely.

When an arrow flies wide we are merely amused at the poor marksmanship; but the closer the arrow strikes to the center the more excited we groweither with resentment or admiration, according to our sympathies.

" There was in Colonel Musgrave's voice a curious tremor, when he spoke; but to the eye he was unruffled, even faintly amused.

It need scarcely be added that the rest of the company were not a little amazed at these cross-concessions, while Maud was exceedingly amused.

We are well disposed to this kind of sensible remembrances; and are the less apt to be taken by those little airy tokensinpalpable to the palatewhich, under the names of rings, lockets, keep-sakes, amuse some people's fancy mightily.

Many sat with the utmost gravity in their shops, scarcely deigning to cast their eyes upon what must certainly have been a novel sight; others manifested much more curiosity, and seemed to be infinitely amused, while heads put out of the upper windows showed that we attracted some attention.

Throgmartin was mildly amused, promised the necessary precautions, and said: "It looks like Peter has put one over on Tump, and maybe a college education does help a nigger some, after all.

" "Thank you," said Betty demurely, but with a sparkle of fun in her liquid eyes as she turned them upon Gulian, secretly amused at this curiously characteristic apology.

As it was, however, he was pleasant and hospitable, and considerably amused at the embarrassment of an Indian woman who was weaving at a hand loom in his courtyard and whom we desired to photograph.

It is a draft going out to France for the first time, north countrymen, by their accent; and life-belts and submarines seem to amuse them hugely, to judge by the running fire of chaff that goes on.

Never pausing, the Boy glanced back, vaguely amused, and saw the Colonel plunging heavily along in front of half a dozen, who were obviously out of condition for such an expeditioneyes bloodshot, lumbering on with nervous "whisky gait," now whipped into a breathless gallop, now half falling by the way.

And I, whom some call Béda, and others call Kruchina, shall be monstrously amused by this.

" Again it was Norton's turn to be inwardly amused at the political ignorance of the Langdon family.

She was excessively amused by his solemn air and puckered mouth, and set him down at once as fair game.

He was playful and wanted to amuse himself awhile with Thumbietot before eating him.

Well, she amused herself tolerably in spite of the visions of the fillagree box and the queen's hair, which now and then came between her and her usual feeling of self-satisfaction.

The French regiment's road discipline was rather more lax than the British, and many tolerantly amused criticisms were passed on the loose formation, the lack of keeping step, and the straggling lines of the French.

It amused him grimly to learn that a new strike had been made in Nome, the biggest discovery in the camp's history, and to realize that he had fled just in time to miss the opportunity of profiting by it.

From him, sir?yes, sir. PARNELL (coldly amused).

I don't know what it meant, but it seemed to amuse them all awfully.

He wondered what on earth they found to amuse them so persistently.

Mr. Hyde chuckled; the idea of marriage plainly amused him.

This may quite easily be (to begin with) an entertaining tarradiddle of Sam's own invention, told, like many other even more improbable stories, solely to amuse Mr. Pickwick.

The founder of this Pre-Adamite journal was Mr. Benjamin Moore; its name, "The Washington Gazette"; its issue, semi-weekly; its annual price, four dollars; and the two leading principles which, in that day of the infancy of political "platforms," his salutatory announced, were, first, "to obtain a living for himself," and, secondly, "to amuse and inform his fellow-mortals."