51 Verbs to Use for the Word distractions

She hurried on; she wondered vaguely at the call of the Red Gods; here again, seeking distraction, she was whipped back to reality.

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

It would be impossible to express the distraction monsieur du Plessis testified at this expression:a thousand times over did he repeat that dreadful word NEVER;then added, neither engaged by love or promise, yet never can be mine!

Obviously the first thing is to eliminate every distraction possible.

It is almost impossible to avoid very grave distractions and to sustain attention if there be not a good knowledge of the matter and form of the Hours recited.

Not a Hen in the world but preens her feathers in the hopethe very touching hope, certainlyof offering us a moment's distraction, some day, between two songs.

Has not negligence in these matters caused innumerable distractions? II.

Though, to escape the distractions of society, he kept his residence secret, as he had done during his first stay in Paris, and frequently changed it, he was still unable to secure the complete privacy and leisure for scientific work which he desired.

Start out by making a strong determination to ignore all distractions.

"With your body, who needs distraction?" "I don't know.

One sensation is carefully conserved until the next one comes along, but in this case the early winter with its complete change of interests, its sleighing, skating and snow-shoeing, its reawakening of business and social bustle proved a distraction almost as effective as battle, murder or sudden death.

Not that he sat moping all the time, for some deed of arms was ever on hand to afford distraction; but in the main his thoughts all turned on schemes for freeing England from the French tyrant.

Diagoras knows he raged, and rail'd at me, And cal'd a Lady Whore, so innocent She understood him not; but it becomes Both you and me too, to forgive distraction, Pardon him as I do.

The host guessed the distraction of his visitor and complied, counselling Don Quixotewho had never read of such things in books of chivalryto provide himself henceforth with money and clean shirts, and no longer to ride penniless.

Attached to the theaters were bars, as at the Palais, and these were the foci of those who hunted distraction, and the trysting-places of the amorous.

The task of paying attention, then, consists in maintaining the desired object at the centre of the mental field and keeping the distractions away.

My mamma, who knows too well the distraction of my mind, endeavors to soothe and compose me on Christian principles; but they have not their desired effect.

Le Marquis m'aimoit en secret, et c'étoit, dit-il, par distraction qu'il ne me le déclaroit pas... par distraction.

II could love toto distraction a girl o' the name o' Sadie.

You shall many times find in his gazettas, pasquils, and corrantos miserable distractions: here a city taken by force long before it be besieged; there a country laid waste before ever the enemy entered.

He did indeed obtain a momentary distraction from his resolution to ascertain the name of the person who had so spoilt his afternoon.

In conclusion, to obviate some distraction in the minds of those who are well acquainted with Salisbury Plain, it may be proper to say, that of the features described as belonging to it, one or two are taken from other desolate parts of England.

With this definition of attention, we see that in order to increase the effectiveness of attention during study, we must devise means for overcoming the distractions peculiar to study.

Ferragut had laughed many times at the virtue of his mate who, timid and torpid, used to pass over a great part of the planet without permitting himself any distraction whatever, but would awake with an overpowering tension whenever the chances of their voyage brought him the opportunity of a few days' stay in his home in the Marina.

Oh, pity my distraction!

51 Verbs to Use for the Word  distractions