Experience showed that the only way was to go slowly and craftily and without heat or tempera slackening of the reinsa distraction of Dolly's attentiona leaning across the dashboarda firm grasping of the tail out near the enda sudden raising thereof.

But it was deemed necessary as a distraction in aid of the French, and it fulfilled the purpose.

He never went into society, but found a pleasant distraction from his studies in educating the daughter of his landlady.

A lively repartee, piquant raillery, a quarrel seasoned with a trifle of malice, a happy citation, a graceful recitation, are not these so many distractions for her, and the time thus employed, is it not so much gained for virtue?

The influence of its dissipation and distraction on the spirit of Mademoiselle de la Mothe was of course unfavourable to religion.

She was loved to distraction by Wilford, and it turned out that he was the son of lord Woodville, and Bess the daughter of lord Woodville's brother; so they were cousins.

We must allow the unsuitable fiction attributing distraction to the divine Unity, for the sake of the words in which Mercy overthrows the arguments of Justice.

They made them dizzy with their fluttering and drove them to distraction with their cries of "Shame, shame, swans!" The attack of the small birds lasted but a moment.

It is as impossible to express the Artist's Distraction as the Patient's Composure.

What but poverty and distractions at home, and the contempt and insults of foreign powers?

His robust and masculine morality, understood at last, or expounded by a semi-priestly class of interpreters, made him popular with those readersand they are the majoritywho love their reading to convey a moral lesson, just as Tennyson's reflection of his time's distraction between science and religion endeared them to those who found in him an answer or at least an echo to their own perplexities.

His behaviour was that of a man who derived his fortitude from religionit was that of pious resignation, not ostentatious courage; it was marked by none of those instances of levity and indifference which, at such a time, are rather symptoms of distraction than resolution; he exhibited the composure of an innocent mind, and the seriousness that became the occasion; he seemed to be occupied in preparing for death, but not to fear it.

An event which spreads distraction over half the commercial world, assembles the trading companies in councils and committees, and shakes the nerves of a thousand stockjobbers, is read by the landlord and the farmer with frigid indifference.

I wanted to see you before you left, but it would have been cruel to add to the cares and distractions amid which you were hurrying off.

For considering the Scots' treaty that would be besides, I might have found means to put distractions among them, though I had found none.

In the first fortnight I got flogged for tying a huge mass of brown paper to the tail of the favourite cat of the master's lady, with which she rushed with an insane and terrifying distraction into the drawing-room.