How To Use Amusement In A Sentence
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Relaxing, in amusement at her unwonted altruism of motive, she had drawn her moleskin coat more closely around her, and settled back to wait the other woman's pleasure in returning to the bright warmth that the pale-orange ribbon of light, wavering upon the swaying platform, harbingered.
Undesirables
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Imagine trying to photograph a large pufferfish with the final frame while an eagle ray circles round your head - much to the amusement of the other divers from the boat.
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Light entertainment is amusement without apology or ambition.
Times, Sunday Times
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The clerk regarded him with benevolent amusement.
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It was like a particularly manic amusement park ride, with the amusement somewhat tempered by mortal fear.
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Rafe rolled his eyes in amusement, tickled at her reaction.
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It boasts excellent hotels, fine beaches, possesses every facility for boating and bathing and can offer all the other forms of amusement which a holiday-maker is likely to require.
Death of a Delft Blue
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But they have made the pre-release process more paranoid than ever to no good effect that I can think of… other than the amusement of those who want to know everything and know it now.
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The wry twist of amusement around his lips finally proved impossible to resist.
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A YOUNG man was fighting for life last night after he was attacked by a gang outside an amusement arcade.
The Sun
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Terry rolled his eyes, but the green orbs twinkled with amusement.
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The rain was falling heavily when the theatres let out, and the brilliant throng which poured from the places of amusement was hard put to find cabs.
CARRYING THE BANNER
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The beams of wit, the lively sallies of humour, and the interchange of good fellowship, eradiated the glass in its circulation, and doubly enhanced its contents; and in amusements so truly congenial with the disposition of the Hon.
Real Life In London, Volumes I. and II. Or, The Rambles And Adventures Of Bob Tallyho, Esq., And His Cousin, The Hon. Tom Dashall, Through The Metropolis; Exhibiting A Living Picture Of Fashionable Characters, Manners, And Amusements In High And Low Life
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I did say there was some fun to be had, and I'd be a cold cynic if I didn't admit there was some sugar-coated amusement present in this series.
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Perhaps, to some extent, she thought with wry amusement, she owed her professional success to Jake.
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And he was in his element in the amusements, gambling away his pocket money on the slot machines and cascades.
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Then came the awkward moment when Kathleen realized what she was: an amusement afforded Margaret by her latest dry spell.
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The next day, we go to the amusement arcade.
Times, Sunday Times
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To the amusement of the class, we grunted and cursed each other out of the sides of our mouths as we both tried to get through the door.
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And at last count, more than 200 people were rescued by crew in rafts, even in rowboats, secured from a local amusement park.
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He is a great falconer, and has promised to fly his hawks on Friday for my amusement.
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The yogi contemplating his navel often figures for Westerners as an object of amusement, being taken as a symptom of indolence or narcissistic self-absorption.
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Apart from slight hesitations and minor delays from the cinematographer (much to everyone's amusement) they left an indelible impression.
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He's showing no more interest than before, except for a spark of amusement on his face that's impossible for me to miss.
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To label [Béla] Tarr, co-subject of this week's micro-retro at the Harvard Film Archive, as a downer is merely a philistine's impatient way of saying he's an existentialist, a modern-film Dostoyevsky-Beckett with a distinctly Hungarian taste for suicidal depression, morose self-amusement, and bile," writes Michael Atkinson.
GreenCine Daily: Fests and events, 1/11.
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The 30-second ad has become so popular that there is serious talk of creating just such a ride at an amusement park in Florida.
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The discussion whether they took him seriously or if he was only some kind of exotic amusement for them fills many books.
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He eyed me curiously with amusement, ‘For a while there you sounded like a mother hen clucking over her chick.’
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After Colleen claims that Joy tried to sabotage her chances of winning, the meeting turns into bedlam (much to everyone's amusement).
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Fifteen miles away, you can visit the Lightwater Valley with its amusement park for children.
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His son was a constant source of amusement to him.
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Cell phone chatterers can find amusement in entertainment magazines.
Magazines Anyone? (copy)
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There is a rather run-down amusement park with roller-coasters, a tower restaurant, and a dolphinarium presently under reconstruction.
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A rather large hulk of a man, he looked at his old friend with amusement.
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This was the cause of much amusement, with the Senator laughing the loudest.
AMAGANSETT
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Barbados is an island rich in forms of entertainment; songs and dance are the chief forms of amusement.
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The jury heard about wealthy amusement arcade boss Vincent King's past only after it had given its verdict.
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It is still too early, I think in mock amusement, the fish haven't risen yet.
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I watch with thinly veiled amusement as he insistently taps her on the shoulder.
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Ian was greeted by howls of amusement when he got back to the pub.
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If I attempted a race with the boys, I was obliged to give up from very weariness; and laughing at what they termed my laziness, they pursued their amusements without me.
A Grandmother's Recollections
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A devious grin crossed his face as his clear grey eyes twinkled with amusement.
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We had great amusement with those letters one morning.
Emma
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Personally, I don't know why they can't find a new vendor for a small group of amusement park rides: A Ferris wheel, carousal, etc - stuff that every age can enjoy, along with a few carnival games.
Sunday Op/Ed: Don’t Put the Chihuly Museum at Seattle Center « PubliCola
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The only bright spot for leisure bosses was the changes to the tax regime for amusement machines.
Times, Sunday Times
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It most certainly was not a life-changing experience, but it did provide amusements.
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Rides with ominous names like Raptor, Flight of Fear, and Mean Streak push the G force envelope at three gargantuan amusement parks.
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One boy could never forget how he drew a distinction between mere amusement and such as encroached on the next days duties, nor the tone of voice with which the Doctor added and then it immediately becomes what St. Paul calls revelling.
Dr. Arnold
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Railroad building and amusement park development flourished in the post-bellum South.
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The amusement of the onlookers changed to gaping wonder when they saw him deliberately bore a hole in the bottom of the boat near the bow, after which, fixing up some kind of derrick, he tipped the boat so that the water she had taken in at the stern ran out in front, and she floated safely over the dam.
The Boys' Life of Abraham Lincoln
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An old Indian merchant, or some such thing, seemed to me a better character — the Spaniard did nothing but stalk about and twangle his guitar, for the amusement of my Lady Binks, as I think.”
Saint Ronan's Well
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It's like one of Martin Parr's photographic nightmares, a neon shanty town of amusement arcades, chip shops and crumbling holiday camps that look like gulags.
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Christian now looked torn between amusement and stark terror.
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His words appeared to be sincere though I noticed a slight glimmer of amusement when he talked.
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Sullen teenagers are in charge of loading people onto high velocity rides at amusement parks...perhaps the Fates are the same.
I get cake, I get needles, I get to go to ER
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Carl came last in the race,(Sentence dictionary) to my amusement.
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Did not James of Scotland find amusement in roaming through a portion of his domain, as a "gaberlunzie-man?
Old New England Traits
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Francesca watched with a covert twist of amusement to her mouth as Mrs Longton took a brief pause and lifted the cup to her tired lips.
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So your partner has a thing for amusement park funhouses?
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They made no effort to hide their amusement whenever I produced a packet of sweets from my pocket.
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He had taken with him for his amusement a favorite gerfalcon of the queen.
The Alhambra
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I looked on in amusement as they started to argue.
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Seldom had the King evinced more gaiety of heart than at this particular period, or appeared to derive greater amusement from the gossipry of the Court and the gallantries of the courtiers; and he no sooner ascertained that Mademoiselle d'Entragues had become the mistress of Bassompierre than he said laughingly to the Duc de Guise:
The Life of Marie de Medicis
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They might want amusement, ranging from something as simple as a paddleboat to sophisticated theme bars and beach dance floors.
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We confidently rely on its theory and its data to send people to the moon, to lob missiles across oceans and to design thrill rides for amusement parks.
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We are not talking of me, however -- but because of this, which in me you call disenchantment, I am able to understand mamma's wish to leave society, all the more because, if I were in her position, all homage, show, luxury, amusements would for me be as impossible as they are for her.
The Argonauts
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Besides my amusement in actually relating a current writing to Plato, I think the column astutely voices a deficiency of student engagement in classes.
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To our amusement, the boy acted an old woman.
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While grief is fresh, every attempt to divert only irritates. You must wait till it be digested, and then amusement will dissipate the remains of it. Samuel Johnson
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She viewed them with wry amusement.
Times, Sunday Times
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When Mr. Power has finished, the sociable, peaceful Mr. Bloom, though an object of amusement to the other men in the carriage, merely unclasps his hands ‘in a gesture of soft politeness.’
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His son was a continuous source of amusement and delight to him.
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My amusements were few; the good Mrs. Putnam employed me and her daughters constantly to spin flax for shirts for the American soldiers; indolence, in America, being totally discouraged; and I likewise worked some for General Putnam, who, though not an accomplished muscadin, like our dilletantis of St. James's-street, was certainly one of the best characters in the world; His heart being composed of those noble materials which equally command respect and admiration.
Memoirs of Aaron Burr
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The star attraction, however, is the amusement park, which the organisers claim to be the biggest mobile amusement park in the country.
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‘It's just such a lovely film, and I thought there was an obvious connection between the seaside and amusements and bingo - and I always like linking things together in a Shed show,’ says Simon.
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It's a classy pier with quirky amusement machines.
The Sun
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'As for amusement, I could kill rats as I used to do; or slaughter a hecatomb of pheasants at Babington,' -- here the old man winced, though the word hecatomb reconciled him a little to the disagreeable allusion.
John Caldigate
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I idly went back to the archives for last January and read with amusement my musings about my lamentable inability to keep my desk clean or to engage in other seemingly modest self-improvement projects.
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First, Jurassic Park has all the problems of any amusement park-ride maintenance, queue control, transportation, food handling, living accommodations, trash disposal, security.
Jurassic Park
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There will be several stalls, raffles, amusements, etc.
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In times of war, amusement arcades are the first to go.
POSITIVE THINKING: Everything you have always known about positive thinking but were afraid to put into practice
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Christian presence, and Christian participation, and Christian sentiment boldly into the midst of the people’s amusements, with a view less to exscind than to regulate.
Amusement: A Force in Christian Training
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The former champion trainer has given his friends endless hours of amusement with his hilarious escapades.
The Sun
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What provided a point of timeless amusement for the rest of my family wasn't such a laughing matter for my uncle.
Times, Sunday Times
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Having invited her on board for a chat, he refused to let her go until the bus had driven a mile down the road, much to the amusement of his hysterical team-mates.
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Cheap mirrors reflect distorted amusement-park images of fighters who shadow-box before them.
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His mouth curved in amusement, but his narrowed gaze was thoughtful, as though her observations had surprised him.
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The crowd of Recruits behind Sam tittered with amusement.
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There are relatively few amusement arcades but plenty of shops selling brightly-coloured buckets, spades, inflatable dinghies and beach balls, not to mention lettered rock and ices.
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Siobhan shook her head in grim amusement as Orbison came to his vaguely masturbatory climax and the answerphone clicked off.
The Priest
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I have ever agreed, having read a few historical books for amusement, that you are a very ancient people, and your origin may be dated much farther back than that of the Teutones, the Celts, the Slavonians, the Angles, and Hurons.
A Philosophical Dictionary
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There was a note of amusement in her voice.
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Our densely-crowded slums, the far too large percentage of unemployed, the gigantic revenues which are expended by all classes of society in intoxicating drink, the huge crowds which throng to the places of public amusement to watch our matches, simply because they have something on the event -- I say these are not satisfactory features in connection with British social life today.
Modern British Liberalism and the Empire
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When the leisured classes took to skis, though, they did so first for amusement, then for sport.
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He shook his head, and twinkled his eyes in feigned amusement, and marveled to himself that her intuition should have so squarely hit the mark.
CHAPTER XXX
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To Tand's amusement, Tanj had taken a nap; a nap that had extended through lunch and was threatening to overrun dinner…
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Steamers tooted at us as sailors on deck waved in amusement.
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Wearing a long white robe he jumped and danced as a large black snake tried to take a bite, all to the amusement of his audience.
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Some were brought back from new and exotic lands simply as sources of amusement or sensation.
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Connor's disposition had slowly adapted from one of amusement to one of worry and discomfort.
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The source of their amusement was a young fisheries biologist with the New York State Conservation Department.
AMAGANSETT
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A YOUNG man was fighting for life last night after he was attacked by a gang outside an amusement arcade.
The Sun
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To my amusement is the rather strange attitude of Trek watchers vs DS9 & the Xindi storyline.
EXTRALIFE – By Scott Johnson - There aint nothing wrong with Enterprise
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While Muhammed Shah and his circle busied themselves with amusement, Safdarjung consolidated his position.
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What between helping to spoil Bismarck's digestion and whiling away the golden afternoons with Caprice (for we'd abandoned our nocturnal meetings, and I was collecting her reports in the mornings) I was in pretty bobbish form, and took to promenading about the town in search of amusement.
Watershed
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Divines of all denominations, Protestant and Catholic, have also their 'At homes' and their 'Congregations,' and innocent amusement is not unseldom mixed with religious teaching at their meetings.
Dutch Life in Town and Country
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One source of amusement was the fact that virtually anyone could classify a document, while a high-level review was required to declassify it.
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In times of war, amusement arcades are the first to go.
POSITIVE THINKING: Everything you have always known about positive thinking but were afraid to put into practice
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Wildwood has three amusement piers, which is fun, but on this trip they all seemed designed specifically for my humiliation.
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To Montcalm, who was of noble birth with no shamming, this lowbred pretense and play at courtcraft became a bore; to his staff of officers, a source of continual amusement; but De Lévis presently falls victim to a pair of fine eyes possessed by the wife of another man.
Canada: the Empire of the North Being the Romantic Story of the New Dominion's Growth from Colony to Kingdom
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Then," said Mr. Hall, "I should think, on the whole, that, in such a place as this, where there are so many regular sail boats, and where excursions on the lake in them are so common and so well recognized as a distinct amusement, the phrase _taking a sail_ ought to be held to mean going in a sail boat, and that making a voyage in a steamer would not be fulfilling the promise.
Rollo in Geneva
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Think of a needle, heated to a glowing red heat, plunged deep into your joints and then jiggled and wiggled about for your amusement.
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The former champion trainer has given his friends endless hours of amusement with his hilarious escapades.
The Sun
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It's an unfailing source of amusement when you talk to children about their views and knowledge of the serious business of sex.
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She told the tale with wry amusement.
Positive Parent Power
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During the course of it, the equation of red wine + vodka + nicotine = puke worked out for me with deadly accuracy and considerable amusement for for everyone else.
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The problem is that it is a lot easier and faster to log on to a gambling web site or do off-site betting on track races than to go to an amusement park.
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He puts the rudest remarks Sir Percival can make on his effeminate tastes and amusements quietly away from him in that manner — always calling the baronet by his
The Woman in White
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SANDUSKY - For the 12th consecutive year, Cedar Point in Sandusky has been named the best amusement park in the world by Amusement Today, an industry magazine based in Arlington, Texas.
Undefined
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Rhyming slang was part of the general patter of traders and others, used as much for amusement as for secret communication.
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Then that blends with what I call circus, which a modern critic would call an amusement-park ride, which is, you know, the gladiators, or horse races, or football teams, or things like that, which are exciting and are emotional.
Q&A: George Lucas on Indiana Jones
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They want the Big Scream ride at the amusement park, or sleeping under the stars at a dude ranch, or exploring a city.
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Starting up the machine would play the music, and it would sound like a merry-go-round at an amusement park.
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As a 73-year-old I have to put my hand up and admit to never referring to myself as an old age pensioner, senior citizen, or even a wrinkly - I much prefer my term of recycled teenager, which causes great amusement.
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I expected her to be angry, but she merely regarded me with a mixture of curiosity and amusement.
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They both run the large amusement manufacturing plant in town, and have just received a huge order from Santa for animatronic wooden soldiers.
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They made no effort to hide their amusement whenever I produced a packet of sweets from my pocket.
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The amusement might come in diagramming the sentence (assuming that the French do that).
Tl; dr | Diane Duane's weblog: "Out of Ambit"
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Three years ago you gave a pleasing illustration of "_the Amusements of May_," and at the same time lamented the decrease of village festivity and rural merriment, which in days langsyne cheered the honest hearts and lightened the daily toil of our rustic ancestors.
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 14, No. 379, July 4, 1829
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Curiosity was overtaken by bewilderment, bewilderment by shock, and shock by a stringe mixture of relief and amusement.
Deadline for Murder
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If he was confused at my flippancy, he didn't show it, and I was a little disappointed when he merely crossed his arms and slitted his eyes in amusement.
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A myriad of emotions plays over his boyish face - wry amusement, disbelief, disgust, and smugness.
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Pet hates and favourite amusements will feature strongly.
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My dad's choice was fishing at a nearby lake, my Mom, "vegging" out at a local pool, my brother chose an amusement park, my sister a movie, and I chose going to an art museum.
Elaine Hall: Living With Autism: Summer Vacation
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His Graham is a pathetic, vulnerable figure who inspires both pity and amusement.
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As a third generation licensed victualler (now retired) I have been following the saga of the Wheatley Hotel with a mixture of amusement and incredulity.
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Amusement flickered briefly over Stone's face before he turned his attention to the package.
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And his farming was well done; for though he was, out-and-out, a gentleman-farmer, he knew how to get the full worth in work done for the fourteen shillings a week which he paid to his labourers, — a deficiency in which knowledge is the cause why gentlemen in general find farming so expensive an amusement.
The American Senator
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His dark eyes sparkled with life and amusement from the mass of black wiry hair that covered his face.
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Its population peaked at around 66,000 in the 1930s, when the city's beaches and amusements provided much-needed escapism from the Great Depression.
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After getting up to ‘have a go at the auld dancing,’ he swung himself around so hard that his false teeth went skidding across the dance floor - much to the amusement of Gerry and all in attendance.
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Men harassers prefer to force their unwanted attentions on strangers in public amusement places.
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If you want to be amused, you go to an amusement arcade.
Times, Sunday Times
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This is the week to get involved in sports and amusements like music or cinema.
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Longitudinal Slum, according to J.B. Jackson, is “an intermittent eyesore of drive-ins, diners, souvenir stands, purulent amusement parks, cheap-jack restaurants, and the kind of cabins my companion describes as mailboxes.”
Archive 2007-05-01
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I watched her at the produce table, smilin as she handled a wrinkled green pepper and a spotted tomato, deriv ing some secret amusement from their inferior condition.
Incubus
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However, visits to arcades on piers or family amusement centres suggest that this form of gambling is no longer conducted within a family environment.
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In company with her friend Chick and the gingerbread man, she wandered through the palace during all that afternoo n, seeing many wonderful things that the Fairy Beavers had provided for the comfort and amusement of their community.
John Dough And The Cherub
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I snorted in amusement, and picked up the coffee mug I'd abandoned earlier.
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Zachary's eyes widened for a moment, but they soon twinkled with amusement.
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She caught the faintest flicker of amusement on his face.
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If the grown man at times takes an in* terest in the amusements and sports of the child, and mixes in his pastimes for completely anbending his mind, that is no dishonour to him: but if he do so with manly earnestness, treat in« significant objects as weighty concerns, and re« solves in one and the same view to support the character of the child and the man, will that re - dound to his honour?
Sermons on Prevalent Errors, and Vices and on Various Other Topics
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It's a shame that TV channels keep on making reality shows following Paris Hilton around or scripting the lives of the young and dumb for our amusement when they could be catch a psychedelic hippy skiffle group as they surf a drug- and BBQ chicken-powered wave across America.
Internet picks of the week
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Such amusements belong to the city, where a lady, her face a glory of powder, Sidonian lips, a tower of hair woven with pearls, earrings like stars, can shake her litter with a fit of laughter at the sight of a humpback swinging along on crutches, where mothers, barristers, doctors gasp with pleasure as two dwarves hack themselves to a butchered ruin in the Circus.
A favorite quote | clusterflock
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But the amusement arcade proved a step too far.
Times, Sunday Times
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But it was really the 1920s and 30s that amusement machines really took hold and machines like the one illustrating this article were commonplace in fairgrounds and amusement arcades all over the country.
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In an age when imperial warriors were better educated, if not better intentioned, than they are today, a Victorian warrior made a pun at which all future generations of Latin pupils were obliged to affect mild amusement.
Latin for American special forces
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Psyke turned around, amusement covering his bloody face.
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I was too busy giving thanks for the meal, for the piercing strangeness of truffles, for the rich amusement of the evening.
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The eighteenth century will for ever be associated with the amusements of a fashionable oligarchical society, represented most notably in the prime of the first of the great spa towns.
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Her eyes danced with amusement and then she burst into a fit of giggles.
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Giovanni visits an amusement park: a ride jostles him violently, but his face remains immobile, stricken, dead.
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His son was a constant source of amusement to him.
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These young children of extremely high intellectual acumen fail to be interested in ‘child's play’ for the same reason that in adulthood they will fail to patronize custard-pie movies or chute-the-chutes at amusement parks.
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It is a source of some amusement to my colleagues that I've been singled out like this because, though I'm known as a blurter, my politics wobble between right of center and left of center.
The Perils of Punditry
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People had very few amusements to choose from. There was no radio, or television.
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During play whenever he tried to run, which was not very often, he found his trousers sliding down to his knees, much to the amusement of the spectators.
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The only record we have of Henslowe's polar bears being put to any use is that one of them was baited with dogs while swimming in the Thames, for the amusement of the Spanish ambassador.
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On the other hand, the consumer market knows the indolent pleasures of the Internet paralanguage very well, as well as video and voice connectivity amusement.
Palmisano's IBM To Make Sametime Work With AOL, Yahoo
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There will be amusements for children, plus hot food and roasted chestnuts.
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Agnes watched with amusement as his interest quickened or faded with each phrase.
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This club provides weekly activities, games and amusement for the youth.
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My sense of humor is typically not the sort that people "guffaw" at -- but I hope there will be a moment or two of amusement for those who are kind enough to read it.
Archive 2009-12-01
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Lela looked up, trying to hide her amusement as they saw Stasia, obviously driven mad with jealousy and defeat, throwing random sculptures at the two.
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Katherine's face betrayed utter shock, then utter amusement.
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To voyage "en cacolet" was the necessity of our grandfathers; for us it is an amusement only.
Seeing Europe with Famous Authors, Volume 4 France and the Netherlands, Part 2
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I took one look, took a very deep breath, and then used all the available towels to sop up the mess, much to the barely concealed amusement of Zachery.
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There will be a dog agility display, donkey derby, traditional Irish country cooking, trade stalls, amusements, and lots more, with entertainment for all ages.
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He stares back, though there is nothing but mild amusement in his glance.
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Much to the amusement of the car driver, the man in khaki fished out a couple of hundred rupee notes towards compensation.
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He was a keen fisherman and shot and a naturalist, and his harmless eccentricities caused much amusement.
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On this part of the Yorkshire coast in among the amusement arcades and the history, there's still talk of witchcraft and magic.
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Tell us, do you seek the thrill rides at the amusement park or is the carousel more your speed?
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As I prowl its gold-paved nooks and wynds, from bookie to bingo parlour, amusement arcade to Lotto shop, I sense fate has fingered me for imminent riches.
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This was correct and the boys noticed afterwards that the servants regarded them with odd expressions of amusement and it was evident to the sensitive Jo that they were being "guyed" by them, to use a modern expression.
Frontier Boys on the Coast or in the Pirate's Power
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They will provide a lot of amusement hopping back and forth over the rocks from one puddle to another.
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He went on playing for a delightful half-hour; (how swiftly, in the blessed amusement, it passed away!) he reduced several of the sticksters to bankruptcy by his baculine skill; he returned to the carriage laden with jacks, wooden apples and soldiers, enough to amuse all the nurseries in Pimlico.
The International Magazine, Volume 2, No. 2, January, 1851
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It affords endless amusement to listen to their endless variety of complaint; some are restless, some spiteful, and some angry, while others sound as merrily as a teakettle, or beat a jolly 'rub-a-dub,' 'rataplan,' that makes a man's soul merry to hear.
The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No 3, September 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy
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Roy Jenkins, an extremely sensible man who is less vulnerable to criticism than most, regarded the matter with mild amusement.
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In fact, innumerable changes will result affecting agricultural, housing, medical, clothing and amusement policies.
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The aesthetic that appreciates kitsch is partly ironic, involving a sort of archly detached amusement.
Archive 2009-03-01
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He found to his amusement that the profligate were by many degrees duller than the pious, but that the most tedious of all were the persons who preached promiscuity, and called their system of "pigging" the "New
The Hill of Dreams
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Two years later, the gang reunited at the Spooky Island amusement park, where vacationing college kids were getting mysteriously zombified.
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Women wore black for at least a year and the family was supposed to stay away from amusements or other pleasures for six months.
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As the Duke of Devonshire Fiennes is deadly dull and passionless, which is the point of the character and why Georgiana had to find her amusement in other areas.
EclipseMagazine
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The personal authority of the aristocracy has decreased with the disappearance of Ranelagh and similar places of amusement, where rank was not exclusive, and luxury by the gratification it occasioned others seemed robbed of half its selfism.
Venetia
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At their hotel there was a waiter with a forelock that looked like the crest of a breaking wave, and this waiter with his coiffure was a source of constant amusement to her, so much so, that although she was not usually very witty, she simply outdid herself in images and comparisons.
Chapter XVI
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Then the river was full of fish: some went fishing for their livelihood: some for amusement: salmon were plentiful and great fish such as porpoises sometimes found their way above Bridge.
The History of London
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I am stunned by the reaction because when I was a Cub Scout between the ages of 8 and 10, we were told to hold hands with our buddies when walking in amusement parks and queuing for mass transport.
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Marc de Clercq enjoying a roller coater ride with the hijras in an amusement park or to Fred Miller of Friendswood Texas a gentle genius and bright spark he will burn your balls with carbon arc
Archive 2009-07-01