1 For the rest, he was large and good-natured, and had a habit of amusing himself with occasional spells of knitting.
2 Fenitchka laughed again, and even clapped her hands, so amusing Bazarov's request seemed to her.
3 I was simply amusing myself with the petitioners and with the officer, and in reality I never could become spiteful.
4 I like to kill the weary hours reading something amusing, you know.
5 Evidently in the back rooms, from which they had dashed out so impetuously, the conversation had been more amusing than the drawing-room talk of society scandals, the weather, and Countess Apraksina.
6 Prince Andrew, looking again at that genealogical tree, shook his head, laughing as a man laughs who looks at a portrait so characteristic of the original as to be amusing.
7 Prince Vasili readily adopted her tone and the little princess also drew Anatole, whom she hardly knew, into these amusing recollections of things that had never occurred.
8 Vera was a handsome girl of twenty; Sonya a girl of sixteen with all the charm of an opening flower; Natasha, half grown up and half child, was now childishly amusing, now girlishly enchanting.
9 His approaching departure did not prevent his amusing himself, but rather gave zest to his pleasures.
10 This melancholy, which did not prevent her amusing herself, did not hinder the young people who came to her house from passing the time pleasantly.
11 And he went on to inquiries about the Grand Duke and the state of his health, and to reminiscences of the gay and amusing times he had spent with him in Naples.
12 He had been awake for some time, listening to what was being said, and evidently found nothing entertaining or amusing in what was going on.
13 At first she found it amusing to give away dresses and ribbons to the maids, but when that was done and what was left had still to be packed, she found it dull.
14 His eyes shone and his mustache twitched as if he were smiling to himself at some amusing thought.
15 His anger with his wife and anxiety that his name should not be smirched now seemed not merely trivial but even amusing.