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She wanted to be alone; nobody had any feeling for her; people might go and amuse themselves; all she wanted was to live and die alone. Rollo knew that she could not do that, but he wished to go where others were going said to himself that the lady would be the better for being left to herself for awhile, and left her accordingly.
Gahogan will be on their right rear in ten minutes. Then we shall get the ridge. Ride back now to Major Bradley, and tell him to bring his Napoleons through the wood, and set two of them to shelling the enemy's centre. Tell him my idea is to amuse them, and keep them from changing front."
"Here is the key of a box at the St. Moses Theatre," she said to the hostess; "it costs two sequins; go instead of us, and tell your daughter to keep her rose-bud for something better." "To enable you to amuse yourself, my good woman; take these two sequins," I added. "Let your daughter enjoy herself well."
And Jolly Robin, who was a bold fellow, hopped forward to do the talking for the callers. "We're a committee," said he, "chosen to call on you and invite you to join the Pleasant Valley Singing Society." When he heard Jolly Robin's explanation, Jasper Jay laughed in his callers' faces. "I'm not musical," he said. "And people who get up early in the morning to sing before breakfast always amuse me.
I hate to see a man and woman shilly-shally." "She won't have me," he said, good-naturedly; in his anxiety he was willing to let her talk of anything, merely to amuse her. "Well, she's a nice woman," Sarah Maitland said; "and a good woman; I was afraid you were doing the shilly-shallying. And any man who would hesitate to take her, isn't fit to black her boots.
You must think, Fanny, that I am anxious about an only brother especially when we have all had so much cause to be anxious about him; and don't you think it must be a delight to me to find that he is able to take pleasure in your society? I should be doubly pleased, doubly delighted, if I could please him myself. But I have not the vivacity to amuse him." "What nonsense, Selina! Don't say that."
I have at last finished my Lives, and have laid up for you a load of copy , all out of order, so that it will amuse you a long time to set it right. Come to me, my dear Bozzy, and let us be as happy as we can. We will go again to the Mitre, and talk old times over. I am, dear Sir, Yours affectionately, 'SAM. JOHNSON. March, 14, 1781.
"There's no secret; any of your own fathers could tell you what you want to hear from me. Listen then. When I was young, I used to amuse myself with women, but I laughed at the idea of love. It occurred, however, that Panthea, the most beautiful of all women, fell into our hands, and Cyrus gave her into my charge, because I had always boasted that my heart was invulnerable.
The design of his Sermons as indeed of all his discourses was to shew reasons for what he spake; and with these reasons such a kind of rhetoric, as did rather convince and persuade, than frighten men into piety; studying not so much for matter, which he never wanted, as for apt illustrations, to inform and teach his unlearned hearers by familiar examples, and then make them better by convincing applications; never labouring by hard words, and then by heedless distinctions and sub-distinctions, to amuse his hearers, and get glory to himself; but glory only to God.
She was itching to seize the hungry little mite, but she restrained the impulse. "Go ahead and keep it amused until the cow arrives," she told him. "Keep it AMUSED! Amuse a starving brat!" tragically cried the man. "In Heaven's name, how?" "Why, play with it, cuddle it, give it your watch anything! But don't allow it to cry it may injure itself."
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