Besides the usual astronomical information, it contained a collection of entertaining anecdotes, verses, jests, etc.
This seems an ignoble calumny, which Idomeneus has drawn from some obscure source to fling at a man who, no doubt, was not faultless, but of a generous spirit and noble mind, incapable of entertaining so savage and brutal a design.
Now Aidoneus the Molossian king chanced to be entertaining Herakles, and related to him the story of Theseus and Peirithous, what they had intended to do, and how they had been caught in the act and punished.
This man, who was an admirer of Alkibiades, was entertaining a party of friends, and asked him to come.
Hajji seated below thementertaining them [Coffee and smoking with amorous stories.
Though entertaining plays may be presented successfully with type characterization only, no dramatist with inborn or acquired ability to characterize, can hold consistently to types.
In everyday speech, that is, we do not say our say in the most compact, characteristic, andentertaining fashion.
The bank president signed with trembling fingers, got a piece of paper which entitled him to the privilege of entertaining a thousand dollars for six months at his own expense, and withdrew.
A Philadelphia divine was entertaining a couple of clergymen from New York at dinner.
BALLS A young married couple who lived near a famous golf-course were entertaining an elderly aunt from the depths of the country.
I am surprised that any one should suppose me capable of entertaining any other opinion, or giving any other answer as to such a proposition.
It could hardly have been an hour afterwards when Mrs. Rayner entered the library in her cosey home and found Miss Travers entertaining herself with a book.
The house was in some disorder, most of the trunks being packed and in readiness for the start, and Miss Travers was entertaining two or three young officers and waiting for her sister to come down to luncheon.
None is more entertaining than Rawlinson, either in his "Seven Great Monarchies" or his "Ancient Egypt.
After ten years of this work, William Chambers determined to publish a cheap weekly paper, to be filled withentertaining and instructive matters, designed especially for the people who could not afford to buy expensive books and periodicals.
In the meantime he insisted upon entertaining his friends at dinner, during which many sallies of sea-wit and good humour passed between Captain Crowe and Dr.
The plot could have developed itself just as well, the high-minded young baronet might have had just as entertaining adventures, without his imitation of the fine old Spanish Don.
Evidently the Mowbrays had beenentertaining some of their neighbors who, to judge by scraps of conversation he overheard, thought they would better take their leave but doubted if they could reach home.
You spend ever so much money in entertainingyour equals and betters," says Thackeray.
It is a counsellor, a critic, a companion, and a guide, and is written in a most entertaining and chatty style.
Her sitting-room was as entertaining as the local news in the weekly paper.
To Ben, then, I award the prize, as having produced the most entertaining story, exciting pleasant surprise in each development, and discovering possibilities in the most unthought of relations.
I was not displeased, for she was entertaining for her very sentimentality, and was not disposed to laugh at any ignorance of the world I might betray, or any social solecism I might commit.
With this manner of entertaining begins her reign as queen of taste and fashion, for Louis XVI.
SIR,--I cannot help entertaining some apprehension of my not having received some letter or some card which you may have done me the favor of leaving at my house.
And she herself, was not she at this moment intent on entertaining a descendant of those very Normans, a vain proud countess with a Frenchified name who would only think that she graced Ullathorne too highly by entering its portals?
But beyond these, success in this art of entertainingis not often achieved.
By these and other considerations he was induced to march for Cuzco, though still entertaining some distrust and even fear of Toro, who he was informed had often spoken against him in his absence.
I'm afraid you think my brother has odd notions of entertaining his guests," she remarked to him, over her shoulder.
The fixed idea of despoiling Rostocker, Aronson, Ganz, Rothfoere, Lewis, and Mendel of their last sixpence had been in no wise affected by this entertaining homily.
It would have been only fitting to have sent for us, as relations of the family, to assist in entertaining him," said Mrs. Phoebe.
Their manner of eating affords a very entertaining spectacle.
A dozen or more years ago I saw an advertisement from a Boston firm, of a package, to be had for the small sum of twenty-five cents, which contained several devices for entertaining children.
The author understands the art of telling stories for young people in a very entertaining manner.
In his new, friendly mood, he shared the results of his wanderings, until Irma began to think him a decidedlyentertaining boy.
Her style is simple and natural, and even historic facts are transmuted by her into entertaining tales.
In an instant the old gentleman had turned the subject, giving Irma an entertaining account of Easter week celebrations that he had once seen in Rome.
The coachman himself did his part in entertaining them.
