Well, they made rather greater pretensions with their religion than some others did, and that made us specially amused over them.
Marion asked, in a low, tender, yet cheery and a half-amused tone.
As for the rest, they had listened to this talk with various degrees of interest; the most of them amused that Rich.
You will be amused at me, Miss Wilbur, or ashamed of me, I don't know which.
Marion asked, as Eurie balanced the note on her hand with an amused face; the illustration fitted so remarkably into the talk.
But I don't this minute know a single definite reason why I, in common with the rest of the girls and the young men in our set, felt amused whenever we saw dancing church-members.
Marion glanced from one to another of the faces before her with an amused air; none of them spoke.
As for Mr. Roberts, he regarded her with a half amused smile which she did not observe, and said nothing.
I can never be Flossy," Marion said to herself, an amused smile hovering around her lips meanwhile, at the thought that she should have a shadow of desire to become their little Flossy.
Officers amused themselves riding after them at a gallop, and rarely overtaking them.
Frequently he amused himself by making the gazelles that he had at Saint-Cloud eat it.
Turnpenny, on his part, before the day was out was so much amused at the animal's antics that he lost his first disgust.
On one of these occasions he was amused to see that his faithful attendant had now ventured to quit the security of its tree, and was sitting on a rock within a few yards of the vessel, an interested spectator.
Once a goat-sucker clattered heavily past, uttering its weird cry; now and again he was amused by the question, "Who are you?
He was neglected all day and left to do what he liked till needed at night, so he amused himself by lounging about the hotel or wandering on the beach to watch the fishermen cast their nets.
In scrambled happy Tino, and settling himself and his property on the seat opposite, amused his new master with a lively account of his escape.
One thing she did which amused her family very much, though they were obliged to stop it.
All the market-women laughed as the little girl came back proudly bearing the fish, for the race had amused them.
Christmas Eve came, and found Di still in the dark, which fact nettled her sadly, for Sophie tormented her and amused the other girls by pretended confidences and dark hints at the mystery which might never, never be disclosed.
Then Tino strummed on his guitar and amused his hearers with all the melodies he knew, from church chants to drinking-songs.
In a hollow tree in the cliff we found three jackdaws' nests, each with four eggs in; and we were amused at watching a woodpecker tapping away at a tree.
I was one and twenty years riding and racing in France, and was highly amused when the French first began sending over horses to us; we generously allowed them seven pounds--half a stone.
The reader will find himself amused and interested from the first page to the last.
He assumed that I was not embarrassed, but that I was amused at his queer words.
Her childish ways amused the queen, and her merry pranks drove the stiff and formal mistress of ceremonies, and the grave and stately cavaliers and ladies of the court, to despair.
The ladies and gentlemen amused themselves with blowing the pieces from place to place.
All were amused at this, and the king himself could not refrain from smiling.
He bowed to the amused and astonished baron, and walked proudly through the hall to his work-room.
As the Armenian was a Christian, and therefore not forbidden to drink alcohol, this mild joke amused everybody except the Armenian, and the more ashamed and angry he looked, the more they laughed.
His Highness was much amused at some of the sketches, particularly of one of the Armenian where he lay on the ground in front of the fire--I had drawn it one evening in Mazar.
One after another they took the paper, and the Amir seemed much amused as they turned it every way, and finally declared the thing was impossible.
The man was greatlyamused at a beggar woman by the wayside addressing him as "Bibi Sahib," and asking alms.
I wasamused on the voyage to hear the sailors' version of the story how the Caspian became a Russian sea, on which no armed Persian vessel can sail.
Now, while in a fishing-boat on the Nile, the queen amused him by having salted fish fixed by divers on his hook, which he drew up amid the laughter of the party.
While the Vitellian army was indulging in riot, bloodshed, and vice, and the populace was kept amused by the frightful gladiatorial shows, the emperor spent his days in a sloth and gluttony that stand unrivalled in imperial records.
Then he returned to Rome, where he shed not a drop of the blood of his enemies, though that of gladiators and wild animals was freely spilled in the gorgeous games and festivals with which he amused the sovereign people.
I was very much amused last winter, when dining with an admiral of the navy on duty at Spezia, by the inquiry whether I came from North America or from South America.
When the conception first seized him he wrote to Charles Darwin, whom he started by admiring and ended by despising, that he developed it "for mere fun and because it amused him and without a particle of serious meaning.
Dario Niccodemi has not added materially to the dignity of Italian letters, but he has amused and diverted his countrymen and ourselves, and for that we are grateful.
On his table he found a telegram sent from Lienz: 'I am so glad you are amused and happy.
Olga Brancka perceived, and with the objectless malice of women of her temperament, amused herself with fanning, the slumbering enmity, as children play at fire.
You see in it that he has often been amused, and that he may easily be amused again.
The costume and appearance of the inhabitants amused and pleased him, as did the shops with their laces, cameos, and lovely coral ornaments.
When this was done they amused themselves by dancing wildly round their prisoners, taunting them and heaping execrations upon them.
The potent liquor flew to my excited brain, and as I sat down I felt reckless enough to be half amused at my position, and inclined to play with my tormentors.
The little boys, she said, had frequently amused themselves with trying to spell the different things about their tent, and were often wishing for their Southampton fire.
The first day they amused themselves with running up and down stairs, and through the rooms of the house.
Campbell) had been much amused with an expression of Mr. Dixon on moving the nomination of his opponent.
The intellect is but little taxed, and, less still, amused by it.
His father's glance was amused and a little critical.
Aunt Jane's face wrinkled at the forget-me-nots--a little perplexed and surprised and amused look.
It amused him when the Count won them, for that was the only harvest the poor devil had nowadays.
But even if she had not so firmly believed it, it would haveamused her to whisper all kinds of strange stories to the trembling child, who had long ago crept into her bed and was clinging to her.
And so the honorable Count di Visinara has amused his leisure hours in making love to Gina Montani!
His manner of address was good, he talked straightforwardly, and with conviction and, best of all, had a broad sense of humor that vastly amused these cowmen.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "amused" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
