Sentence examples for diverting themselves from inspiring English sources

For at the end of this brisk and wonderful tale, the astronomer regains his reason, Rasselas's sister, Pekuah, retrieves her companion from kidnap, and, in the conclusion, in which nothing is concluded, the four travellers sit out the Nile's inundation diverting themselves with tales of what they have seen.

And Mr. Thorn points out that an Englishwoman named Lady Hervey wrote in a letter in 1748 that the family of the Prince of Wales was "diverting themselves with baseball, a play all who are or have been schoolboys are well acquainted with".

Some of them diverted themselves by pecking at their cellphones.

"They are desperately searching for things to do to divert themselves from stress.

Clinton supporters diverted themselves by spelling out HILLARY over and over.

I don't need this thing of my brother for our lawyers to divert themselves and the P.D. to smirk at.

Then, on the other half, have them draw what they can do instead, perhaps including a "thought bubble" detailing how they could divert themselves from losing control.

When it came to the World Cup finals in Switzerland the following year, the Hungarians and Grosics largely diverted themselves in their first game against Germany; the second would be the final.

Yet it is true that women are often diverted, or divert themselves, into areas of the law that are more magisterial than confrontational -- they are more likely to be judges and corporation counsels than criminal defense attorneys, the gladiators of the profession.

The Democrats had been waiting for Clinton's speech for two days, during which they diverted themselves with a couple of brief platform fights, one about inserting a mention of God, who had inadvertently been cut out of the platform's 40 pages.

For a time, Norway had it, and Painter notes Emerson's "affection" for the bloodthirsty old Norse sagas: "A pair of kings, after dinner, will divert themselves by thrusting each his sword through the other's body, as did Yngve and Alf".