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Example sentences for "public amusement"

  • When visiting in a family where the members are in mourning, decline all invitations to parties or places of public amusement.

  • If you receive an invitation to visit any place of public amusement, decline it, unless one of the family with whom you are staying is also invited.

  • Do not accept an invitation to visit any place of public amusement, with a gentleman with whom you are but slightly acquainted, unless there is another lady also invited.

  • As the inn cannot close its doors, or the public conveyance refuse a seat, to any paying traveller, decent in condition, so must it be with the theatre and other places of public amusement.

  • He longs, perhaps, for respite and relaxation at some place of public amusement, duly licensed by law; and here also the same adverse discrimination is made.

  • Theatres and other places of Public Amusement, licensed by law, are kindred to inns or public conveyances, though less noticed by jurisprudence.

  • It would be well in all places of public amusement, if there could be an apartment appropriated to the ladies, in which they might deposit their cloaks, hoods, &c.

  • Always take a fan with you on going to a place of public amusement.

  • These little repasts are very pleasant, especially at the close of a long winter evening, and after coming home from a place of public amusement.

  • Almeria Turnbull, is still alive--probably at this moment haunting some place of public amusement, or stationary at the card-table.

  • So insatiable and restless is the passion for admiration, that she was never happy for half an hour together, at any place of public amusement, unless she fixed the gaze of numbers.

  • Nothing can be more melancholy than most places of public amusement, to those who are strangers to the crowds which fill them.

  • The usual hour at which the theatres opened their doors was four in the afternoon, and after the close of the performances the audience generally repaired to some garden or other place of public amusement.

  • In reading these descriptions, it must be remembered that, under the toleration system, the police would not permit prostitutes to visit places of public amusement, nor would they allow music and dancing in the brothels.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    express their; near relative; public acts; public conveyances; public credit; public enemy; public faith; public functionaries; public improvements; public land; public lands; public libraries; public measures; public morals; public nature; public places; public questions; public resort; public schools; public speaker; public subscription; public utility; public work; public works; public worship; remained standing