10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «UNAMUSABLE»
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unamusable in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
unamusable and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
Moreover, when a man has accustomed himself to deal with great subjects, he
becomes unamusable, unless he preserves in the depths of his heart a certain
guileless simplicity and unconstraint which often make great geniuses such ...
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Popular Amusements in Horse and Buggy America
... an unamusable king" was the penance of a worldly woman; but these people
cannot be called unamusable. They are quick-witted (on their own ground),
imaginative, and enthusiastic; and the question for us to consider is, how these
good ...
William Lawrence Slout, 1995
tic as an evangelistic tool for the unamusable, I think Sandwich-Board Man did
my friend - and the rest of us - a service. As we consider the value of vulnerability
in public leadership, it's worth noting that a great deal of public Christian ministry
...
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Heroines in obscurity. 2nd ser. of 'Papers for thoughtful ...
... their visit, for they will see a great deal to interest and amuse them : it will not
be hard to please them. But the girls — ah ! there Lis the rub ! because girls don't
know what they would be after, and are chronically unamusable and dissatisfied.
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The Edinburgh Review, Or Critical Journal
Unfortunately, according to our original proposition, all are equally in want of
amusement,- and the amusing either others or ourselves, whom prosperity or
accident have rendered unamusable, is harder work than breaking stones upon
any ...
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The Life of Marie de Medicis, Queen of France
de Medicis was one of the most "unamusable" of monarchs ; and like Cinq-Mars
himself, he was weary of the unvaried routine of pleasures which made up the
sum of his existence while confined to his own capital ; and thus he welcomed ...
7
Blue Pencils & Hidden Hands: Women Editing Periodicals, ...
Why, the Pompadour, with the Pare aux Cerfs upon her conscience, and that
horrible, "unamusable," keen-sighted, heartless voluptuary perpetually upon her
hands, did not go mad because mainly of the interest with which politics invested
...
Sharon M. Harris, Ellen Gruber Garvey, 2004
At least one sister was convinced that he was entering a life of waste and
wantonness, and old William Pollexfen — "like Napoleon unamusable, " JBY
recalled — steadily disapproved. On his part, JBY came to feel that his "tragedy"
was being ...
Douglas N. Archibald, 1974
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Tait's Edinburgh Magazine
... about to become the mother of a ducal race, was of some mark and likelihood
to a man distracted to find popular amusements for an unamusable and
capricious fashionable audience — a man in despair of having the boxes
properly let.
William Tait, Christian Isobel Johnstone, 1841
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Selections from the Edinburgh Review...
Unfortunately, according to our original proposition, all are equally in want of
amusement; and the amusing either others or ourselves, whom prosperity or
accident have rendered unamusable, is harder work, than breaking stones upon
any ...
3 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «UNAMUSABLE»
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unamusable is used in the context of the following news items.
Aug. 28-Sept.3: Real Confidence
In the near future, you should be as serious and sober and unamusable as you have ever been. You've got demanding work to attend to; knotty riddles to solve; ... «Salt Lake City Weekly, Aug 14»
Free Will Astrology For the Week of August 27
In the near future, you should be as serious and sober and unamusable as you have ever been. You've got demanding work to attend to, knotty riddles to solve, ... «TheStranger.com, Aug 14»
Older legacy fades by popular demand
My local park is Victoria Hill, named for the unamusable queen. Mailboxes still bear the commemorative initials V.R, semi-legible through history's multiple layers ... «Irish Times, Apr 14»
