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But in teaching a mixed class of boys or young men it is a sine qua non that one possesses a "mind's eye" with easily adjustable focus, as in a photographic camera; otherwise one cannot keep in mental touch with those members of the class who "come to" play "and remain to" distract the attention of fellow-students.
'Well, it might distract you. But you needn't expect to get much out of Cicely! The old face lit up with its tolerant, half-sarcastic smile. 'I shall be dreadfully afraid of her! said Nelly. 'No need to be. William will keep her in order. She is a foolish woman, Cicely, and her own worst enemy, but somehow' The speaker paused.
He resolutely avoided dwelling on the past, and whenever he found himself thinking of what had so long been home, he took up a book, or went out for a walk, or engaged in some occupation that served to distract his thoughts. He missed the games. Football was occasionally played, but there was no observance of rules, and after trying it once or twice he gave it up in disgust.
Where Yosie, Angel wants Yosie to come now," and the plaintive little voice broke into a sob, as the child looked from one to the other of the circle beseechingly. The ladies exchanged pitying glances while the persevering Miss Norma rattled an empty spool in a tin cup violently to distract the baby's thoughts. "And how old is Angel?" she continued.
Monty, who believed from force of habit every single word Fred said, walked beside me and was good enough to give me fatherly advice. "Not the time, you know, to fool with women. I don't pretend, of course, to any right to judge your private conduct, but you can be so awfully useful, you know, and all that kind of thing, when you're paying strict attention. Women distract a man."
You have never been abroad. New scenes will distract your mind. Run over to Paris." "Not to Paris I don't want gayeties; but I did intend to go abroad somewhere, any dull dismal hole of a place. Good-by! Don't think of me any more for the present." "But let me know where you go; and meanwhile I will see the squire." "Say as little of me as you can to him.
Search for the supposed father had been continued by Lackland, Hawkins and himself for several years, but Laura was not informed of it till after the death of Hawkins, for fear of raising false hopes in her mind. Here the Distract Attorney arose and said, "Your Honor, I must positively object to letting the witness wander off into all these irrelevant details." Mr. Braham.
In his absolute sincerity he made, as it were, a parade of hard and rugged types, scorning to introduce an element of beauty, whether sensuous or ideal, that should distract him from the study of the body in and for itself. This distinguishes him in the arabesques at Orvieto alike from Mantegna and Michael Angelo, from Correggio and Raphael, from Titian and Paolo Veronese.
Even the books that lay scattered round were not new works, not those to which we turn to satisfy the curiosity of an hour, or to distract our graver thoughts; they were chiefly either Latin or Italian poets, with many a pencil-mark on the margin; or books which, making severe demand on thought, require slow and frequent perusal, and become companions.
"So I came in to say that I'm going to do all I quietly can to distract her thoughts from the past, and get her to look around her. If I see any way of preparing her mind to think well of Mr. Turl, I'll do it. And what I want of you is not to discourage him by any sort of hints or allusions to Davenport, you understand." "Oh, I haven't been making any. I told him the mere fact, that's all.
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