Which preposition to use with amuses

at Occurrences 200%

"Our party were greatly amused at the disputations of a learned society in Europe, in which they undertook to give a mathematical demonstration that they could not be thrown from a volcano of the earth, nor from the moon, but were suddenly formed in the atmosphere.

with Occurrences 100%

When we first visited the shops, I was equally gratified and surprised with what was familiar and what was new; but I was particularly amused with those of the tailors and milliners.

in Occurrences 14%

Many people amuse us who are themselves amused in their sleeve.

by Occurrences 12%

Dárá was still more amused by this explanation, and presented to him another cup, and successively four, which the envoy did not fail to appropriate severally in the same way.

as Occurrences 5%

He wasn't often so much amused as that.

for Occurrences 5%

They require almost incessant change; both for the sake of relief, and to amuse for the sake of amusement.

than Occurrences 4%

Indolent persons have less need of being amused than others; but perhaps there are few if any persons to be found, who are so indolent as not to think continually, on one subject or another.

without Occurrences 3%

Animated conversation amuses without seeming to teach, and transfers ideas so skilfully into the minds of others that they are ignorant of the debt, and mistake them for their own.

to Occurrences 3%

A degree of fun as well, for the doctor was not enduring anything, and was making a study of the case, and Markham was, between the ebullitions of agony, amused to an extent with his own strange physical condition.

during Occurrences 2%

I used to be much amused during past travels in watching the different lines of search that were pursued by different persons in looking for objects lost on the ground, when the encampment was being broken up.

like Occurrences 2%

He amused like an actor, and instructed like a sage.

of Occurrences 2%

What none could thoroughly appreciate except those who lived in his intimacy was the perfect simplicity which made him the most easily amused of men, ready to pour out his stores of anecdote to old and youngto discuss opinions on a level with the most humble of interlocutors, and take pleasure in the commonest forms of pleasantnessa fine day, a bright flower.

on Occurrences 2%

I was amused on this day, as well as on previous sorties, by seeing the eagerness with which the soldiers, European, Sikh, and Goorkha, rifled the bodies of the slain sepoys.

from Occurrences 1%

With these children are exceedingly amused from the variety of forms in which they may be placed, and of buildings which may be erected with them.

after Occurrences 1%

Before dinner they were amused after the manner of their country; instruments of music were introduced; the song and the dance were promoted; games of chance were furnished them; the men played and sang, while the women and girls made fanciful ornaments from beads, with which they were plentifully supplied.

beyond Occurrences 1%

The guests were amused beyond description, while my mother and elder sisters were equally mortified; but Mr. Bayard, who appreciated our childish surprise and delight, smiled and said: "I'll take them around and show them the pictures, and then they will be able to dine," which we finally did.

into Occurrences 1%

[Footnote 171: The commentators on this interesting but obscure description of Varro's aviary have at this point usually endeavoured to explain the arrangements of the chamber under the lantern of the tholus with respect to its use as a dining room which Varro frequented himself, and hence have been amused into all kinds of difficulties of interpretation.

Which preposition to use with  amuses