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Example sentences for "amused myself"

  • As for me, I stood upon the bridge nearly all day; the fresh air did me good, and I amused myself by scanning the horizon with my telescope.

  • I amused myself by reflecting on my rapid passage from a numerous and exalted assemblage to the vile place I now occupied, though I was still dressed like a prince.

  • After an extremely agreeable visit to the palatin I returned to Leopol, where I amused myself for a week with a pretty girl who afterwards so captivated Count Potocki, starost of Sniatin, that he married her.

  • I amused myself sometimes by rowing across the river from the steps at the foot of my ground to the field which I had purchased upon the other side.

  • I amused myself at my leisure, also, when I was in no haste, with occasional experiments in engineering such as suit the more educated man among his fellows.

  • I suggested by my negligent tone that such a number could hardly be called a caravan and was little more than a distraction with which I amused myself on my travels.

  • I amused myself in fishing, and sleeping away the fortiegues of yesterday.

  • I amused myself in fishing several hours today and caught a number of both species of the white fish, but no trout nor Cat.

  • I amused myself in fishing and caught a few small fish; they were of the species of white chub mentioned below the falls, tho they are small and few in number.

  • I fancied myself in the midst of a seraglio, and I amused myself by watching their meek and modest looks as they did their work under the direction of the foreman.

  • As soon as it was time, I repaired to the temple, and while I was waiting for the idol I amused myself in examining the books of a small library in the boudoir.

  • I amused myself a few days, by keeping minutes of the visits of the mixed Indian and metif multitude.

  • I amused myself by passing from one literary study to another, and this is ever refreshing to the mind, which tires of one thing.

  • A little river that we were near was full of small fish, and I amused myself by trying to catch some of them by damming up a part of the river, but I did not succeed.

  • The gun was rendered quite useless by this accident; so I returned home dejected, and on the way I amused myself by throwing a spear at a mark on a tree.

  • We pitched our tent on the shingly bed of the Mareb, and I amused myself, with the help of my gun-bearers, by getting firewood for the night, as Fisk and the luggage had not come up yet.

  • Just now, with the idea of giving Agathe a surprise, I amused myself, while her back was turned, by slipping my picture into her reticule.

  • During this pleasant conversation, I amused myself by examining the four gentlemen.

  • I amused myself by following my neighbor, who had lost his hat in the scuffle.

  • For the next half-hour or so I amused myself by constructing a kind of amateur magazine outside the hut in which to store my precious powder.

  • I followed his suggestion, and while he took his place in the small queue in front of the window I amused myself watching my fellow passengers hurrying up and down the platform.

  • While the boy was away I amused myself by examining the titles.

  • Such were the companions to whom I introduced myself shortly after; and, while they went off to the office, I amused myself in looking round the rooms in which I was to spend the approaching winter.

  • Amused myself by sketching the view from a neighbouring hill.

  • I amused myself in the garden, which was much frequented by birds.

  • I amused myself in the grounds, a good deal afraid of a turkey-cock, who was pugnacious and defiant.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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