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Citations:amusement

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English citations of amusement

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  • 1719Daniel Defoe. Robinson Crusoe.
    This confusion of my thoughts kept me awake all night; but in the morning I fell asleep; and having, by the amusement of my mind, been as it were tired, and my spirits exhausted, I slept very soundly, and waked much better composed than I had ever been before.
  • 1818Mary Shelley. Frankenstein.
    Sometimes I grew alarmed at the wreck I perceived that I had become; the energy of my purpose alone sustained me: my labours would soon end, and I believed that exercise and amusement would then drive away incipient disease; and I promised myself both of these when my creation should be complete.
    I did not, like him, attempt a critical knowledge of their dialects, for I did not contemplate making any other use of them than temporary amusement.
    After so long a period of an absorbing melancholy that resembled madness in its intensity and effects, he was glad to find that I was capable of taking pleasure in the idea of such a journey, and he hoped that change of scene and varied amusement would, before my return, have restored me entirely to myself.

French citations of amusement

  • 1959, Georges Simenon, Une Confidence de Maigret, 1959, Presses de la Cité, Paris, p. 9
    Le médecin de quartier qui, quelques instants plus tôt, détendu, souriant, suivait avec amusement la scène du gâteau de riz, semblait maintenant très loin de la salle à manger quiète et bourgeoise.