Tepidly, indifferently and rather amusingly she prattled on without ceasing, on every subject under the sun, and was socially a valuable help because where she was there was never an awkward pauseor any other kind.

Everyone sat down now and Uncle Philip was amusingly talking.

He fats prize-labourers, sir, just as Lord Minchampstead fats prize- oxen and pigs.' Lancelot could not help thinking of that amusingly inconsistent, however well-meant, scene in Coningsby, in which Mr. Lyle is represented as trying to restore 'the independent order of peasantry,' by making them the receivers of public alms at his own gate, as if they had been middle-age serfs or vagabonds, and not citizens of modern England.

The consultation between the physicians, in Act 3, amusingly ridicules the pomposity of by-gone medical professors.

The monsters of your Botanic Garden are as surprising as the bulls with brazen feet, and the fire-breathing dragons, which guarded the Hesperian fruit; yet are they not disgusting, nor mischievous: and in the manner you have chained them together in your exhibition, they succeed each other amusingly enough, like prints of the London Cries, wrapped upon rollers, with a glass before them.

That her signature possessed a distinct commercial value in selling popular fiction was amusingly illustrated by a bit of literary rascality practiced in 1727, when Arthur Bettesworth, the bookseller, issued a chapbook called "The Pleasant and Delightful History of Gillian of Croydon."

Getica's anxiety at the loss of her dog is amusingly depicted.

To the company, after he came to know them, he was gravely polite, and, to those who knew him if they had overheard, amusingly commonplace in his conversation.

She put the case amusingly, and it was like her to take up any attitude that went against the habits of her set; but she lived at the mercy of her moods, and one could never tell how long any one of them would rule her.

Here is a passage from one of her latest letters, which, half sadly, half amusingly, reminds us of Mrs. Primrose and her "I'll-warrant" and "Between-ourselves" manner.

The Wallace Green congregation, however, sought to counteract it by an argument which amusingly shows how well they knew their man.

With his whiskers, his spectacles, and his solemn air of responsibility, he would have presented, to one unfamiliar with the negro type, an amusingly impressive appearance.

Mr. G.J. Johnson laid down the law with pungent perspicuity, and Mr. William Harris was amusingly epigrammatic.

"Our pretty hostess had been helping a butler, as this talk went on, an' presently one of the other ladies joined her, an' never was any company so picturesquely an' amusingly served.

Altogether, the spirit of nonsense which animated the crowd, displayed itself very amusingly.

The holiest of them were strongly and often amusingly individualized.

And if there is still a third interval it will be equally amusingly filled by conversation as to the pasts or costumes of the more famous of the female nobs who are presentan interchange of opinion as to the lowness of their necks, conjectures as to the genuineness of their hair, and so forth.

And youinstead of being amusingly whimsical and enttŽare in danger of becoming merely bourgeois.

"Don't you thinkperhaps"a little ripple of laughter passed across his mind"he had a skeleton key?" Lagune's face lingered amusingly in Lewisham's mind as he returned to Clapham.

Lisette and Nora, about the same size, played and quarreled most amusingly together.

It was like hustling her out, it is true, to give a select bal masqué at such a very earlysuch an amusingly early date; but it was fitting that something should be done for the sick and the destitute; and why not this?

As it is in my mind to celebrate my daughter's wedding with all pomp worthy of my crownI want to ask youto consult with my sonas to how most gracefully and amusingly to entertain the Courts of Poland, Saxony, Brunswick and Mecklenburg, who will all be here for an entire weekin a word, how we can win much honor and glory by this wedding.

In announcing his discovery, Hume amusingly displays the self-complacency and the want of humour with which we Scots are commonly charged by our critics: 'I flatter myself that I have discovered an argument which, if just, will, with the wise and learned, be an everlasting check to all kinds of superstitious delusions, and consequently will be useful as long as the world endures.

At St. Louis he amusingly misapprehended conditions.

There used to be, I remember, a somewhat amusingly distinctive character attributed, of course in a general way subject to exceptions, to the different groups of the English rusticating world, according to the selection of their quarters in either of the above three little settlements.