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.

If the British General Staff had nothing better to do than to compile guide-books to Belgium for a non-existent British army, it appears merely amusing.

Ancelot introduces her "friend," the poor Duchesse d'Abrantès, on the scene, is exceedingly amusing and natural; and we have here at once the opportunity of applying the remark we made in commencing these pages, upon Mme.

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.

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

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.

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.

" By this time he has taken Nell from her saddle and is in the reception room where he finds you grouped and gazing at him in a manner rather trying even to his soldierly gravity, and decidedly amusing to the wise fairy, who glances at him with a laugh and betakes herself to her own little nest.

I suppose that chap's awfully amusing, what?

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.

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.

Oh, fancy my having to live in a city occupied by the British!" "Ah," sighed Miss Moppet, pressing her head against Betty's knee, and a spark of interest lighting up her doleful little face, "if only some of them be like my good" "Oh, some of the Tories may be passably amusing," said Betty hastily, giving Moppet a warning glance, as she checked the words on the child's lips by a soft touch of her hand.

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

So this boy laughed merely because he had brought me a note, and not because there was anything peculiarly amusing in the message which the note contained.

When they arrived there it was wonderful how many persons were eager to show civility to his new lordship, and he who as Handy Andy had been cried down all his life as a "stupid rascal," "a blundering thief," "a thick-headed brute," suddenly acquired, under the title of Lord Scatterbrain, a reputation for being "vastly amusing, a little eccentric, perhaps, but so droll.

She was finding it mildly amusing to note how people came and went at Matocton, and to appraise these people disinterestedly, because she would never see them again.

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

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

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).