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Example sentences for "amuse myself"

  • I will ride every day upon a horse, with slaves behind me and before me,[V85] and go about through the streets and markets to amuse myself, while the people will salute me and pray for me.

  • Thus I continued to amuse myself, passing from one place to another, until thirty-nine days had elapsed, and I had opened the doors of all the closets excepting that which they had forbidden me to open.

  • Here closed the first act of my life; the second closed when I left Venice in 1783, and probably the third will close here, as I amuse myself by writing these memoirs.

  • I continued, however, to amuse myself, and my pleasure in spending freely quite prevented me from thinking about the future.

  • I am a gentleman of Lorraine, and Madame la Riviere is my mistress, and my object in coming to St. Petersburg is to amuse myself.

  • My health had scarcely returned, when I forgot all my woes and began once more to amuse myself.

  • After dinner I was never permitted to amuse myself, or to do anything, except occasionally to net.

  • To amuse myself, I try to make him understand all he has lost in losing Rose.

  • Then, to amuse myself, instead of submitting to their stupid questions, I questioned the fine ladies themselves.

  • Moreover, I amuse myself in exciting him in all ways, although I have taken no resolution concerning him.

  • It is to amuse myself that I dwell on such subjects as the lack of external comforts: they never occupy my thoughts, except at the moment when I miss them.

  • You are welcome to torture me to death for your amusement, only allow me to amuse myself a little in the same style, and refrain from insult as much as you are able.

  • It was not to amuse myself that I went: I was often wretched all the time.

  • But usually I learned my lessons to amuse myself, for he would not allow me to talk with the sailors, and did not talk to me himself, so that I was very lonely, and studied my books from necessity.

  • He said after a while that he would go out and swing in the hammock, leaving me alone, and while wondering what I should do to amuse myself, I remembered the letter Agnes had given me.

  • I handed it over, and got down to amuse myself.

  • May I amuse myself by making architectural plans with the pencil?

  • No, but when I have nothing better to do, I amuse myself by watching people who push it well.

  • There I amuse myself by looking on while they play chess.


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