Yes, but, says Swift, "amusement is the happiness of those who cannot think," and may we not say that acquiescence is the cowardice of those who dare not feel?

Eveena's second request came naturally from one whose favourite amusement had been the raising and modification of flowers.

While these might be allowable in popular lectures, before audiences lacking in early intellectual discipline, where amusement was a consideration, and where without it the public ear could not be secured, he thought that the collegian should study differently,that his understanding should be taxed severely, and that he should be inured, from the first, to rigid attention, in order to a lasting remembrance of the truths offered to him.

The amusements of the evening are music, waterworks, fireworks, and dancing.

The first amusement of the afternoon was an apple-guessing contest, the names of different varieties of apples to be guessed from literal definitions, thus: The Royal Apple.

Her amusement was the stock market and she played it cannily and with considerable success with his rather diabolic encouragement.

The only amusement in which Henri IV indulged freely and earnestly was play; and he was so reckless a gamester, that at no period has the Court of France been so thoroughly demoralized by that frightful vice as throughout his reign.

The amusement that comes frae spendin' siller recklessly dinna last; what does endure is the comfort o' kennin' weel that, come what may, weel or woe, ye'll be ready.

But the favorite amusement was a bolstering match.

The only amusement to be had was a big candy pulling, or hog killing and chicken cooking.

At the foreign courts, which it had been his lot to visit, the theatre was the chief entertainment; and as amusement was always his principal pursuit, it cannot be doubted that he often sought it there.

"The Fatal Marriage" of Southerne is an exception to this false taste; for no one who has seen Mrs. Siddons in Isabella, can deny Southerne the power of moving the passions, till amusement becomes bitter and almost insupportable distress.

Their chief amusement was the chase, and their chief occupation was war.

With such an earnest purpose, she was not prepared to be a social favorite in any society whose chief amusement was gossip, and whose keenest weapon was ridicule.

I do not say that such amusements, such occupations of mind, are not a great gain; but they are not education.

The amusement and good feeling which it is always the aim of the dinner speaker to create, were largely the aim of Dickens' life.

A much more favourite amusement of mine was a picnic arranged to last for two or three days, and intended to embrace objects further afield.

The only other amusement worth speaking about was the churches.

The only amusement my mother had was work.

Is it not, on the contrary, symbolical of our national character, that almost all our field amusements are wintry ones?

Says Ellis: These, though the general amusements of the Ariois, were not the only purposes for which they were assembled.

The next amusement at which, according to etiquette the Sposina appears, is a ball, to which she goes attended by her lover, and one or both of her parents.

The Spartan spent his life in the barrack and the mess-room; his amusements were the exercises of the parade ground.

Their best amusement, and which, in some parts, beats ours, is the comedy; three or four of the actors excel any we have:

Dancing, under that name, was little practiced; the amusement of young people at their gatherings was "playing games."