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Example sentences for "amused himself"

  • And he amused himself, and his wives, by going about in the flying chariots made by him, as if rehearsing future journeyings in the skies as emperor of the Vidyadharas.

  • And he amused himself by looking in her company at beautiful temples of the gods in gardens and lakes, having ascended with her the heaven by the might of her science.

  • He amused himself by learning German, in order, as he wrote to me, “at least to occupy a portion of each day usefully.

  • In the times when Bonaparte was still only Consul, and when he amused himself in following up even less conspicuous persons, he took it into his head that he wished M.

  • Talleyrand, the sharpness and occasional bitterness of whose satire leagued all commonplace people together against him, and he amused himself mercilessly at their expense.

  • He amused himself at Fontainebleau during bad weather by seeing good players at tennis, in which he had formerly excelled; and at Marly by seeing mall played, in which he had also been skilful.

  • Everywhere he amused himself in examining everything, and in asking many questions.

  • He amused himself I know not in what other part of the house.

  • He never ate anything between meals himself, not even fruit; but he amused himself by seeing others do so, aye, and to bursting.

  • He had not noticed it when he passed the same place two hours before; and he amused himself by picking up pebbles and throwing them at the log; when, suddenly, at the touch of the pebbles, the log woke up.

  • More than once he amused himself in the riding-school by passing under a beam, grasping it with his arms, and lifting his horse between his legs.

  • When this was accomplished to his satisfaction, he amused himself for a minute or two with wild, fantastic leaps from trunk to trunk in a patch of felled timber, and then circled back to see what Jabe Smith was doing.

  • He had already charged them, and he amused himself by thinking of the mischief he could do, by a single touch upon the trigger, to a poor little wood-rat, that once or twice ran along a decaying log some five steps from his feet.

  • Still he amused himself by aiming at this and other objects, until suddenly reminded of the very important difference which he had promised Calvert to make between the pistols in his future use of them.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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