During the voyage most of the men amused themselves by playing swy or two-up, and dice games. |
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Raised on the hinge of the Greek and the barbarian world, he had the amused tolerance of a man who can see and has lived with both sides. |
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Mr Cunningham stood there, an amused, appreciative look on his face as his gaze swept my almost bare figure. |
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The material put up around the walls will keep you amused long enough for other patrons to consider organising a search party. |
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Instead, the latter of the two amused himself with taking in the early-morning Island seascape. |
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Any readers who can suggest suitable reading matter or anything else to keep him amused would be doing me a favour. |
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But was I the only one to be amused by the new laird's reasoning behind his decision to buy the Braemar barony and the Lordship of Kildrummy? |
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I was rummaging through my box full of stuff and found something that amused me. |
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These camps keep children amused while allowing them to brush up on their acting skills, the backstroke or learn to play a sport. |
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It was a very tedious business, and they amused themselves by counting the seconds between the thunderclaps and the flashes of lighting. |
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Though Shaw was prone to bouts of megalomania, he viewed his apotheosis with amused detachment. |
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I was tickled and amused by the presentation of my waffle, but it was soggy, flaccid and certainly not as much fun to eat as it was to look at. |
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I know he would have been tickled pink, a little embarrassed and mightily amused. |
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Rage briefly flickered in that imperial expression, then she seemed amused again. |
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Only the beautiful spring sunshine, Mexican waves and occasional forays by the home team, kept the crowd amused for the last 20 minutes. |
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She lay with her chin on her forearms, deliciously amused at the sight of Wolf plunging through the shallows, growling like an amphibious tiger. |
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Indeed, he became so much interested and amused by their shambling motions and clever evolutions, that he could no longer contain his curiosity. |
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He suddenly stopped dead in his tracks with an extremely amused look on his face. |
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I was quite amused at the formality and mildly curious at what the experience would be like. |
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While others were quite shocked or even offended by the waitress's behaviour, I was very amused. |
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Plummy amused the whole school, over 220 pupils, with tricks and jokes while Ivan performed his unsupported ladder act, which included juggling. |
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He was not amused, especially when he heard that that same bunch had voted to bring back the birch only two weeks earlier. |
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Most visitors to the annual motor show in the city were amused by what seemed to be a pygmy four-wheeler. |
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The man is, by turns, amused and annoyed by the presence of cameras in his midst. |
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The Bill and Ben stories were invented by their older sister Hilda, as tales to keep the twin boys amused whilst they had their bath. |
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The amused twinkle wasn't quite gone from his eyes, but he was much more serious now. |
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I amused myself by calling people from the sheep barn and leaving the bleats of shorn sheep on their machines. |
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The Warren brothers snickered, amused by the sight of their strict teacher suddenly turned into a timid mouse. |
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He is moderately stern, but amused when Billy stands in the skiff and waves good-bye to his merchant sailor friends. |
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Well, I could not very well tell from that unemotional voice whether he was amused, or annoyed, as the case may be. |
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Mr Neil was not amused and declared war, publishing the piece unexpurgated in The Hootsmon. |
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Meanwhile, Emerson says he's amused by the number of people who tell him they think writing mysteries and thrillers must be a very exciting job. |
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I was amused when he said it reminded us of what Christmas was about, as the nativity scene had nothing to do with the pagan festival. |
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She was amused to see he wore old sneakers instead of the boots favoured by the others. |
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He is amused by their unworldliness and their belief that they cannot enforce economy on Government unless they practise it themselves. |
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We were variously amused, appalled and aroused by what we were seeing, and the bad jokes were one way of dealing with that. |
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She would have been much amused by the recent brouhaha about Martin Scorsese's documentary about Bob Dylan. |
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His laughter eventually subsided into amused chuckles, which flushed vermillion into her cheeks. |
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Ministers now come and go, booed off the political stage by an impatient media if they fail to keep the pack amused. |
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To Web surfers, he came off as a quick-witted scribe who kept readers amused with tales of high-altitude nuttiness. |
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In the VIP section, or VNP as Innocent called it, we amused ourselves by reading a stash of Innocent bottle labels. |
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She was not amused but I guess she totally misunderstood the concept of hand luggage. |
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The well-paid men amused themselves in their off-hours with poker games, where large sums of money were won and lost. |
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We were much amused by shots of a great huge fat man trying to stick one on the president. |
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Taking the stage in the early evening sunlight in their trademark masks and olive jumpsuits, they both enthralled and amused festival-goers. |
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A man, peering down out me and clearly amused, asked me over the jubilant caroling my name and what I did. |
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After dangling for hours within arms reach of each other, the two PTIs started looking for ways to keep amused to avoid going stir-crazy. |
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I stayed on the sidelines, amused at the sheer number of plots and subplots which one match could throw up. |
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And I was amused when the NBR leapt on my quip that they were chardonnay socialists, but it's probably not that far from the truth. |
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Her foppish companion, along for the ride, seems both amused and distant in sunglasses, scarf and blazer, chin resting on his hand. |
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The sight of his old captain in rags, his eyes sunken, face unshaven and dirty and hair infested with lice, amused him. |
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Leslie's expression was unreadable, but he kept those hooded eyes on her back until he noticed Willoway's amused glance. |
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African colleagues are amused at the way I carry a ream of paper on my head. |
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Lauren swirls her white wine around in the glass and watches amused as Mark feasts on his steak. |
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Waiting until she'd heard the swish of the lift's doors closing, Jack turned and regarded an amused Julian. |
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I smile, appeased and amused, when I realize that he's actually ducking, and his broad shoulders are hunched over. |
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Whenever I pull them out of my bag, I can feel the amused and somewhat pitying stares of other golfers upon me. |
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Some passers-by were very amused at us, there was plenty of music and dancing. |
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Jacob laughed quietly, the expression never changing from one of amused patronization. |
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Eden, who was used to the clipped speech of her birthplace, was fascinated and amused. |
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A short silence reigned for a few seconds before amused female laughter pealed out. |
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I've always been amused by the contrast between the two identically named cities that border this river. |
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Their screaming contorting aerobatics as they swoop on clouds of insects keeps me greatly amused. |
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It amused her to see Jason hiding his cockiness and his belief that she would say yes no matter what he did. |
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It's always amused me that some of the most fanatical anti-tobacco activists are also mad keen on legalising dope. |
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While this received plenty of laughs, the combative chairman was not amused as will be revealed later. |
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On one occasion Spears amused himself by prolonging a telephone conversation in order to incommode Weygand who was bursting to use the lavatory. |
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Magdalena heard an indelicate snort from David's direction, matched by a skeptical but amused smile from Ketheral, who was shaking his head. |
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You'll find yourself laughing out loud, clapping for the heroine, and feeling reluctant, amused commiseration for the hero. |
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She raises her eyebrows looking amused, then pulls her maybe face and feigns falling asleep on me. |
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He was put in the picture by the amused elderly ladies who gossip every evening in the entrance hall of the block. |
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She bit her lip to stop the amused smile from spreading when he blushed at her playfulness, answering as his cheeks went pink. |
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It amused me to see the insubstantial evidence you had pieced together as your argument against airguns. |
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He taught himself to play a bit by ear, amused the rowdy crowds, and picked up small change. |
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When I finally walked out toward the cliff's edge I was amused by the plentitude of rusted beer caps strewn about. |
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In a French lesson for six children aged 10 and 11, the assistant head used pictorial flashcards to keep the children amused. |
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Citizens were not amused, letters of protest were published on bulletin boards. |
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In the beginning we'd amused ourselves by telling stories from our childhood and playing everything from I spy to the slug-bug game. |
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The Seychelles Government was not amused and cancelled the complete note issue. |
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A shouted threat would have been less frightening than the amused satisfaction in his tone. |
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However, the Italians and Spanish were not too amused, seeing themselves as military powers in their own right. |
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The piece is written with an almost amused incredulity at the sheer gall of the scheme. |
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The Old Woman from the Royal Collection chuckles in her reverie, amused by the fantastic costume Rembrandt has garbed her in. |
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I was interested and not a little amused to note a panel on the dashboard with three small indicator lights. |
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The reader gawps, in turns amused and appalled, at an enthralling variety bill of Victorians and Social Gospellers. |
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I was vastly amused to see the plants grown to a soundtrack of death metal outperforming the plants that listened to classical music. |
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After giving a somewhat amused snort at my audacity, he asked me what it was I wanted to know. |
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Her voice was firm, almost amused, but her eyes were still slightly glazed over. |
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Confused, I blinked open an eye and found one of our lab buddies staring down at me with an amused glitter in his bright blue eyes. |
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I was embarrassed and wondered if there was something in my appearance or demeanor that had amused her. |
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There will also be skate ramps, BMX riders, breakdancers and graffiti artists to keep the crowds amused. |
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A birthday card was duly procured and signed, to the general amused delight of the table. |
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Faith was amused by evading his questioned and watching him get frustrated. |
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It is endlessly diverting and can keep a simpleton like me amused for near hours on end. |
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He will not be amused at being associated with such a pack of drongos and losers. |
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Dark hair and even darker eyes accented his pale features and an amused smile touched his thin lips. |
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The laundrette woman who spent ages afterwards getting washing powder out of the tumble dryer was not amused. |
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Raoul was not amused to find me flicking my chewing gum into a priceless installation piece I assumed was a wastepaper basket. |
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And while I am only amused at such queries, their inquisitive querists find it impossible to believe in the truth of my response. |
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Clearly amused, a young lad peered at me through the hood of his woollen djellaba. |
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There is an amused glimmer to his eyes and his lips quirk upwards, as if he is laughing at a private joke. |
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Though she was quite serious, James Benedict burst into a bought of amused laughter. |
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We amused ourselves by making fun of the weirdos around us, eavesdropping on the strangest conversations, and generally being random and bored. |
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But I was surprised to realise, courtesy of a little jolt of panic, that I can't really remember what to do to keep a kid amused. |
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It is a sloppy piece of journalism which I am amused you allowed to appear on your front page. |
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But all of it is jumbled together in a way that at the end the reader is left empty, if amused. |
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If the jumbo walked away leaving the audience amused, a clown who imitated a rag doll to perfection, left everyone truly amazed. |
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He listened with rapt, amused attention to what I told him about the role of LSD in his Nobel Prize-winning discovery. |
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Bribing his way by caravan over the wastelands of the Afar province, he is not amused by the locals. |
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I was surprised and amused that my letter should have hit such a raw nerve with Mrs Jones. |
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And I amused everyone at Urgent Care with my stunning impressions of ocean animals. |
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I gave a half hearted attempt at an amused sneer and shook my head, reaching for my book again. |
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Apparently, he was greatly amused by the awe written on her face, from her wide eyes to her open mouth. |
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He may be amused by the idea but in reality it would never suit a man with such unabashed ambition. |
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European passengers exchanged knowing smiles, amused or not very, according to taste. |
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Much to everyone's humor, Rose amused herself with the gift wrappings and boxes that were trash to everyone else's eyes except her own. |
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She's amused by all the intimations that her new husband has partied down with what may be a regiment of loose women. |
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Rachel hid her amused smirk behind her mug, immediately regretting the leaving of her fan in the carriage. |
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The quizmaster, however, was least amused as degree coffee got its name after the lactometer used to measure the milk specific gravity. |
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Liam Griffin amused and captivated his political audience in a venue still rejoicing at Kilkenny's hurling victory. |
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He heard feet clattering and laughter and a shout from someone who was not amused. |
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We were delightfully amused by the cops who came onto the beach to check everyone for booze. |
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I had totally forgotten about it, so have amused myself for a few minutes looking at the search strings. |
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Here she slept at night, but during the day she amused herself on a table, where the woman had placed a plateful of water. |
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We amused ourselves by throwing stones at these protrusions as we meandered along the path. |
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Children were kept amused by entertainers Crystal and Dandelion who did face painting and put on a music show. |
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I amused myself by ripping bits of paper off the corner of my finished worksheet. |
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The Australians never really cottoned on to the idea that sport was a way in which gentlemen amused themselves. |
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Camie and I amused ourselves very well and dear old Betty was very kind to us, helping us in every way she could think of. |
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He was amused by the fact that he had been mistaken in his knowledge of what is right and what is left. |
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What I didn't expect to see was how amused the predominantly white female studio audience was with these clowns. |
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She grinned involuntarily, amused by his likeness to her high school maths teacher. |
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Obari raised an eyebrow, quite amused at getting a rise out of his childhood rival. |
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Men amused themselves in the mess by argufying sometimes about any silly subject. |
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He watches the young man select one of the animals and looks on amused as the young man stuffs it into the boot of his car. |
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Some looked angry, while others seemed more amused as some of the angriest protesters bellowed at them through a loudhailer. |
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And I'll be mightily amused if anyone goes searching through the archives for lurid details of my love life. |
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A sea otter has some fun with an Australian Cattle Dog that seems less than amused. |
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He is a listener rather than a talker, and sympathetic in an amused, ironic way. |
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She jumped at the light tap on her shoulder, eyes widening in panic as she spun around quickly to stare into Sakura's amused dark eyes. |
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Her voice has an amused tone, and I know she's trying to be sarcastic and make me feel bad. |
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So I'm going to savour it awhile and plot some hedonistic scheme to keep me amused. |
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Just under an hour later, TJ and Lew were hitching up the wagon to the baler while the girls looked on amused. |
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She seemed more amused as her perfectly plucked eyebrows raised, a small smile curving her mouth. |
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It is safe to say that the creators and supporters of other irony and sarcasm marks were not amused. |
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Across the room a posse of young men, fresh from a football match, amused themselves by downing pints of lager in rapid succession and groping any woman who passed by. |
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His expression sobered a little, but he was still amused I could tell. |
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For that reason one is amused rather than taken aback by a Flemish diptych of the turn of the fifteenth century from the Catharijneconvent in Utrecht. |
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The tide was still ebbing furiously and the course lay once again upwind, and for a few minutes I amused some onlooking fisherman by not making any headway at all. |
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It was hard to know why the shop girl was so amused by my behaviour. |
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Visitors are often amused to see pictograms outside banks informing customers that dogs, ice-creams, mobile phones and guns should not be brought inside. |
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People are most amused by the girls who constantly flirt with viewers in the street in front of their windows by making eyes at them or dancing lasciviously. |
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The Bishop, I fancy, thought there was something in this appeal, and was, perhaps, amused at the persistency of women, for he smiled sadly for a second or two on his gaiter. |
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Nor was I amused that someone out there was impersonating me. |
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But while absurd wordplay amuses me to no end in film, in books, in conversation and on merchandise, there's a point at which even I am no longer amused. |
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Nick was leaning against the wall with an amused smile touching his lips. |
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It amused Adriana to watch him do it, balanced in a crotch of his beech tree, fishing for hours in the morning and after a long nap in the heat of the day. |
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He did not have enough humour in his constitution to be amused by her. |
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She blew a series of smoke rings out, because she knew that it amused me, stretching her head into the air like her neck was a stack and her lips the chimney rim. |
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I am amused by the attack on the book's statement about the use of vermilion in the hair partings of female terracottas in very early contexts in Baluchistan. |
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I laughed, thoroughly amused by his responses to my innuendos. |
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State officials were not amused, and are suing the advocacy group for copyright infringement. |
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I spoke to Ann after her ecstatically received address and she was less than amused. |
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Chris and I are amused by the idea of buying an airstream trailer and trying out material. |
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He was highly amused when colour started to rise in Darius' cheek. |
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The waiters and staff of the establishment were clearly not amused. |
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His grip was light as silk and solid as iron, and he looked up for the first time, the billed cap no longer concealing the too-handsome face with its amused, chilling smile. |
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The others were standing around, drinks in hand, congratulating my cousin on his initiation, and asking us amused tones what we thought of the crazy rigmarole. |
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Sometimes we can be amused by the misfortunes of somebody else, but our amusement is particularly great if we are sure the loser is not really hurt. |
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One beginning that amused him takes place at the Metropolitan Opera House in New York. |
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At the age of sixteen these bad guys chase you, often under the amused and complicit watch of policemen. |
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They attempted to stifle their chuckles and hide their amused smiles as Suna moved towards their table in the manner that could only be described as a waddle. |
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After preparatory school in Illinois, Hay went to Brown University, where he amused men and charmed women. |
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Victoria took on a confused, as well as slightly amused simper. |
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It may have amused him to have at one stroke enraged liberals and fellow-travellers, Trotskyists, Stalinists and Stalinoids, not to mention conservative Babbitts. |
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She looked up and glared at me hard for a moment before she shook her head and gave a soft amused noise that was halfway towards being a disbelieving scoff. |
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The red haired boy was watching in amused silence, and I poked him. |
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I'm always a bit amused when people say the church is full of hypocrites. |
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Over the next few weeks and months she went decidedly loopy, wandering around dazed and giving bizarre impromptu interviews to mystified and amused reporters. |
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Still, not everyone is entirely amused by such technological marvels. |
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While there is no doubt that racing will be the focus of the day, racecourse chiefs have lots in store to keep the younger members of the family amused. |
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He is a somewhat shambling but attractive denim-clad man in his late 50s, with a thatch of pewter-coloured hair, an engaging smile and a permanently amused gaze. |
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He had a jolly laugh and his belly shook when he was really amused by something, and his wise old eyes lit up with mischief right before he'd ask you a riddle. |
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Charles, after seeing his partner run off, went to the center of the stage and took a bow, after which he was given tremendous applause from the highly amused audience. |
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Castro was most amused and thereafter the pair met on several occasions. |
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Landon noticed the amused glint in Sarah's eyes, but chose to ignore it. |
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None of the judges seem quite prepared to handle the mammary movement, except Simon, who is not amused. |
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Travel stories can be a dodgy proposition, quite often varying between the detached, amused air of Western superiority and the slavish worship of all things foreign. |
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It's quite a head-turner and certainly draws a lot of amused smiles. |
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Dominick seemed amused, his teeth firmly clamped around his cigar. |
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If the characters were 12 different shades of fruitloop, I may be amused. |
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There is no better place in the world for a voyeur like me to be constantly amused. |
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The director unfortunately was not so amused and tension was in the air. |
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Lord Metfield gave her a surreptitious look-over while she introduced herself, and was amused to see that the lady seemed to subject him to some kind of inspection too. |
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I have to admit that it amused me to know that the previous day, Chelsea, for all his prodigally spent millions, had contrived to lose 2-1 at home to Bolton Wanderers. |
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He's reclining on a couch looking surprisingly relaxed and amused as he relates the story of how penury forced him into such an unusual career choice. |
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Last night at the pub with a friend I realised just how easily amused I really am when I confessed to him how rubber bands flying through the office still make me laugh. |
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It amused Kemp that old man Colter had sent his daughter away for refinement and culture, then brought her back to one of the roughest, most uncivilized places in the country. |
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While waiting patiently for a meaningful explanation to this mystery, I was amused by this headline on one email I received selling some form of pep pill. |
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I think Randy would have been amused to see his words used as foreplay. |
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While waiting for the bus, I amused myself by performing a mime interpretation of the Gettysburg Address. |
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The children chased one another in a circle in front of their amused parents. |
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Many will want to know how this Home at Gait beshapes itself, and would be amused in seeing my varied occupations of the past week. |
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It was among the ruins of the Capitol that I first conceived the idea of a work which has amused and exercised near twenty years of my life. |
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Those are fighting words, of course, and the people who presently hold the high ground of economic power in society will not be amused. |
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During the long, dreary, wet winter I amused myself by watching college and Pro basketball on the idiot box. |
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I amused myself by thinking that in his choice of books he showed pleasantly the irreconcilable sides of his fantastic nature. |
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When just two years old, he wrote numbers up to millions, and when taken to church he amused himself by factorising the numbers of the hymns. |
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The Variations have amused me because I've labelled them with the nicknames of my particular friends. |
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In the early laps they switched around between themselves several times to keep everyone amused. |
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The White Conduit gentlemen were not amused by such interruptions and decided to look for a more private venue of their own. |
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The locals watched, amused, as the tourists parched in the sun, having neglected to apply sunscreen or bring water. |
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The event originates from the Middle Ages, when the most important Florentine nobles amused themselves playing while wearing bright costumes. |
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I was amused to hear his sister describe some of those eruptions in her slow, Quakerly fashion. |
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Beatrix then tells the guests of the stories she writes and they are delighted and amused. |
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When Steven Seagal announced a UK tour with his blues band Thunderbox, my reaction, like most people's, was an amused one. |
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And finally, we were very amused to read of a pub cashing in on the unbelievable petrol panic buying. |
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Gloria is amused by his efforts and admits that she's turned on by his costume and invites him for a little afternoon naptime fun. |
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We were amused for a few seconds, but then we refocused and decided to turn off all the rheostats that provide back-lighting to that panel. |
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Expansive, amused, irresistibly self-confident, self-deprecating. |
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For a while I was amused to get offers for dubious products from her before realising her email account had been nobbled. |
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He was just tickled and amused by the situation, punky and very funny. |
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It will keep young ones amused, and while a bit corny at times, it moves at a pace. |
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Don't be fooled by its fun appearance, it isn't something to keep the rug rats amused. |
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I WAS some what amused by Steve Frazer's claim for compensation off the council when his pushbike was allegedly damaged in a pothole. |
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And I am always amused to read the gloomy dot bomb stories in the press. |
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My bouche, however, was less than amused to see him go so soon. |
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I was likewise amused by the letter from Peter Scargill on the merits of powering cars with compressed air which continued in the same tongue-in-cheek humour. |
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I have frequently amused myself both in public and private companies, with silently remarking, the specious errors of those who speak without reflecting. |
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His temperament was uniformly cheerful and he was easily amused. |
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My dear Hooker, I am getting very much amused by my tendrils, it is just the sort of niggling work which suits me, and takes up no time and rather rests me whilst writing. |
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The appeals court noted that an excludable alien amused of committing a crime is entitled to constitutional protections of the Fifth and Sixth Amendments. |
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In effects, this centeristic intelligent creature is not amused, if I may be for a moment levitous. By all means be levitous, Curtin says. Levitism is the soul of discourse. |
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Much of the venerable gallery's ethos is predicted here, from the tone of amused overripeness, to the accent on instantaneity and life as cinematic. |
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They are no longer to be amused according to custom, as a mob with the cant of a mountebank, and the leapings, friskings, gambols, and stale jests of tumblers and clowns. |
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Camillus set upon the Gauls when they were amused in receiving their gold. |
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Being amused with grief, fear, and fright, he could not find the house. |
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Bhansali's Leela takes the lead to lock lips with a visibly amused Ram. |
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