But the collections poured lately from the press have been seldom made at any great expense of time or inquiry, and, therefore, only serve to distract choice without supplying any real want.
Sommers picked up a newspaper that some passenger had thrown aside and endeavored to distract his mind from the forlorn sight.
He had been explaining it gently to a woman in the chair, from pure intellectual interest, to distract the patient's mind.
As he meditated on this an idea seized the doctor; there was a way to distract her.
Then, as the door into the private offices closed, the ones left behind fell back with sighs to the magazines and illustrated papers with which they sought to distract their fears or their ennui.
Now you distract me more: Shall then the day, Which views my triumph, see our loves decay?
There walks an angel in the splendor of superior excellence, and I endeavor in vain to distract my mind from her by studying the animals.
If our sense of hearing were but a thousand times quicker than it is, how would a perpetual noise distract us.
Upon entering their house, they found Emil Correlli in a state bordering on frenzy, occasioned by the escape of Edith, and this circumstance served for a few moments to distract their thoughts from their own troubles.
But, in the meantime, as supper hour draws on apace, and the frizzling cutlets do scent the evening air, a little story should not be amiss to distract your anxious minds, and thus to check the impatience of your appetite.
Again, some thought to distract him by running swiftly with him several times round the well, which only made him very ill.
Bill tried to persuade him to forget them, and talked of many other things, in order to distract him from such thoughts.
We speculated daily upon her past, present and future, having little else to distract us in a life that was duller than a Chinese comedy.
Dennis barked, divining something uncanny, eager to distract the mind of his mistress from what seemed to be engrossing it.
Seeing that his master was given over to a gloomy despair that verged upon madness, Jonathan resolved to distract his mind at all costs, and knowing that he was passionately fond of music, he engaged a box for him at the Opera.
Cora, however, was in a condition of mind in which it was not difficult to distract her, and she continued without paying any further attention to the example of Lefferts' extraordinary insight.
It would be much more agreeable if she might have some one to talk with her and so distract her attention.
But in order to make the waiting seem less long the girl was evidently trying to distract her attention by practicing her music.
Barton would cease his perfectly futile efforts todistract her attention.
She thought it would be very much more apt to distract her attention than if she stayed on here with nothing else to dream about.
Probably most of the passengers were experiencing the same doubts; and the captain suspected the fact, for he gave us fire drill just to distract our attention and to settle our nerves.
It would be far easier to distract the attention of the children of the State of Ohio from their distinguished fellow-citizens, William H.
But then wild thoughts come back; thoughts that utterly distract me, and which I can neither control nor prevent, and then I go mad, and don't know what I say or think.
If only something would happen to distract the watchers outside, just for half a minute, that would be time enough--she could reach the Leaf in less time than that.
To distract her, the farmer began talking about the country around and the most likely places to search.
She read the papers to him, walked up and down the terrace with him while he smoked, and played bezique with him late into the night, to distract his thoughts.
Whom would it not distract to see two figures walking in with hunches on their backs like camels, and high-heeled shoes, and hats on the back of their heads, and chains and things clattering all over them?
It was thought best not to distract Lady Susan, and Lenore was relieved not to have her vehement regret and fussy cares about her; but there were still two hours to be spent before starting, and in these Dr.
Her intellect was at the same time inquiring and indifferent; her doubts were never soothed to forgetfulness, and they never grew strong enough to distract her.
He almost succumbed to this blow; in a few weeks his hair was grey; he was getting ready to go abroad, if possible to distract his mind .
Floyd has left his substitute with the professor, and sent Cecil to ride, so that she shall notdistract Violet's attention.
He more than half wishes there was no business to distract one's mind.
Little father, after a short stay, went away to try and distracthis thoughts from his grief, and the large house, whose former masters were leaving it from time to time, resumed its usual calm and monotonous course.
The worship of Flaubert was a religion from which nothing could distract him, neither work, nor glory, nor slow moving waves, nor balmy nights.
But we do not think it advisable to enter into a discussion of these elaborate, technical theories, which are apt to confuse the beginner, and to distract his attention from the important facts of the case.
To all that was said to distract my mind I replied: "Yes, that is all very well, but you may rest assured I shall do nothing of the kind.
Let us speak of present things,' he said, to distract her thoughts.
He endeavoured to interest and distract her; he strove to amuse and arouse her.
A young woman stopped close beside me, also to read the announcements; and I was not so absorbed by the titles of dramas and vaudevilles that the sight of a pretty face did not distract my thoughts from them.
Conversation or other interruptions may distract the attention at a critical moment and cause an operator to write an order incorrectly or allow a train to pass which he should stop.
It is necessary to amuse the bathers, to distract them, to make them think the season too short.
The novelty of unfamiliar surroundings will distract you from being inner-directed, which is therapeutically important.
You also should either run alone or with someone who won't distract you by talking.
