When first I arrived to the age of a man And met the distraction of care, As the day to a close rather sorrowful ran Yet I smiled and I smoked my segar: O, how sweet did it seem What a feast, what a dream What a pleasure to smoke the segar!
I polished that last scene todistraction in "the oak room" at Offcote!
When is voluntary distraction a grave and when a venial sin?
Indeed, a person who intends to pray well, but whose whole prayer is a continual distraction in spite of his efforts to be recollected, does not lose, but rather by reason of his good will and effort increases, his merit.
Sunday would be a serious distraction and scandal), or its quantity (e.
Breviary does not notice that he is giving considerable attention to an inscription or advertisement on an adjacent wall), the distraction is merely involuntary and inculpable.
Balbus imprudently trusts to his own efforts to get up promptly in the morning, or to fight against some slightdistraction in prayer.
Thus, they state that one who has had voluntary distractions may consider that he has fulfilled his duty, unless he is certain that he also adverted to his state of distraction and did nothing to end it.
Actually, one loves God with one's whole heart when there is never any interruption or distraction to one's love, and one is continually engaged in an act of loving God above all else.
Wherever he was, it seemed that any other place would be preferable, and this he supposed was the essence of the distraction that travel is supposed to give.
The most successful means of distraction he had discovered was espionage.
In most cases of headache, however, what is most needed is a distraction of the attention from the ailment.
Hobbies of various kinds, especially the making of collections, even of such trivial things as stamps, will often serve the purpose of distraction from gloomier thoughts.
There is no dignifieddistraction in this country,' she complained, 'for respectable ladies nearing forty.
Soon the occupation of cutting up the tobacco and rubbing it gave a temporary distraction to his thoughts, which distraction was prolonged by the further operation of pressing the tobacco into the bowl of the dudeen.
Freed of the distraction of another purpose, clarified by the near approach of death, his spirit looked, and for the first time understood.
Her memory is good on the whole, but owing to herdistraction it is much impaired.
Visions occurred in great numbers without proper "lapses" (designating by this word only the higher grade ofdistraction of attention).
As he wept he never left off looking at the things about him, and he found some distraction in that.
During the first days of her sojourn in the little town, when her mourning kept her out of society, Jean-Christophe was a distraction for her--primarily by his talent.
Such literature as they read is for distraction and not for the vigorous use of their faculties.
The clever publisher knows well that the public for whose distraction he caters is divided into many classes, and that these classes must be attracted each in a special way.
He did not have enoughdistraction to occupy all the way that he moved.
The pleasure of conquest is the same when distraction has no limit.
But her life was changed in nothing: it was only a distraction the more.
On her return home, Corinne strove to reflect on what she had seen, and retrace her impressions, as she had formerly done; but her mental distraction was uncontrollable.
Oswald fell into such distractionthat Lucy trembled for his life.
I was beset with illusion; and so intense were my feelings of rapture, mingled with doubt, and my blissful distraction so great, that it was late in the day before I noticed the dress I had on.
The terrible days of the guillotine were succeeded by an uninterrupted reign of pleasure, "when a fever of amusement possessed everyone, and the desire for distraction of all kinds seemed to have been pushed to its limits.
The Tyler Baltimore convention was carried the length of an actual meeting, and went through the forms of a nomination, without the distraction of a rival candidate.
In the first place, there is no contention to be reconciled, no distraction to be composed, no misery to be assuaged, no lost harmony to be restored, no lost happiness to be recovered!
The new paper brought division and distraction into the party--filled it with dissensions, which eventually induced the withdrawal of Mr. Ritchie; but not until he had produced the mischiefs which abler men cannot repair.
It was terrible to see--if any one in that distraction of excitement could have seen--the world of eager eyes, all strained upon the scaffold and the beam.
Men left to their own resources are liable to seek distraction in drinking, in cards and other unwholesome pastimes.
There was more distraction and more soothing in the stay at Cambo and Biarritz, which was chosen for the holiday of 1862.
Such performances supplied a distraction to the more serious work of writing 'Paracelsus', which was to be concluded in March 1835, and which occupied the foregoing winter months.
