..., diversion, amusement...
Gustavo Adolfo Becquer 「Legends, Tales and Poems」
...In a word, it is esteemed themost pleasant and least dangerous diversion that ever wasseen...
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra 「The History of Don Quixote de la Mancha」
... “I perceive that your arm is hurt,” observed the chancellor, seeking a diversion...
Anthony Hope 「Rupert of Hentzau」
... Drivingone day along the road to Clinton, he overhauled a diminutive blackfigure trudging along the road, occasionally turning a handspring byway of diversion...
Charles W. Chesnutt 「The House Behind the Cedars」
...From infancy he, likeall the herders, had been constantly upon thelookout for bear sign; it was his one keenestintellectual accomplishment and diversion...
Various 「Hunting in Many Lands」
...After the meal,with his feet to the fire, he can have diversion in the way ofeither comedy or tragedy, or both, by listening to frontier tales...
W. E. Webb 「Buffalo Land」
...His Newfoundland dog, mistaking the purpose, and supposing thathis master was in danger, plunged after him, and dragged him to theshore by his hair, to the great diversion of the spectators...
Edward Jesse 「Anecdotes of Dogs」
...But it was not for diversion alonethat this animal was pursued; for the skin was much used by the nunsin their habits, as a fur...
Harrison Weir 「Our Cats and All About Them」
...Before the apoplectic Colonel could speak, Lad created a diversion onhis own account...
Albert Payson Terhune 「Further Adventures of Lad」
...This course they kept constantly while welay here, affording us every morning and evening an hour's diversion ingazing at them and talking about them...
Various 「Heads and Tales」
...Another diversion of the evening was to pour cans of waterfrom the houses on the heads of people in the streets...
Sir James George Frazer 「Balder The Beautiful, Vol. I.」
... Now came a diversion...
Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens) 「A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court, Complete」
...Through distant arcades, voicessounded; there was music in several of the rooms; it struck Larry thatthis was a place of diversion for humans with no work to do...
Various 「Astounding Stories, June, 1931」
...I aminclinable to think that it is only used by way of diversion at theirHevas or public entertainments, as Punch is in a Puppet show...
James Cook 「Captain Cook's Journal During the First Voyage Round the World」
...It was a favourite diversion with the children to imitate the peculiarities in any one's gait, and they would go through it with the happiest success...
David Collins 「An Account of the English Colony in New South Wales, Vol. 1」
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