divertisement

• “Dod, I'm thinking it would be a kind of divertisement to gang and see what he'll be after!”

  David Balfour, a sequel to Kidnapped.

• ““You mistake the matter entirely, my dear Mrs. Blower,” said the Doctor; “there is nothing serious intended — a mere placebo — just a divertisement to cheer the spirits, and assist the effect of the waters — cheerfulness is a great promoter of health.””

  Saint Ronan's Well

• “We will then take the water for our divertisement, and you, my lords, will attend us. —”

  Kenilworth

• “When there is no recreation or business for thee abroad, thou may'st have a company of honest old fellows in their leathern jackets in thy study which will find thee excellent divertisement at home.”

  The Guide to Reading — the Pocket University Volume XXIII

• “The divertisement ended with a dance of Bacchus and Bacchantes.”

  Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 357, June, 1845

• “Bacchus of the divertisement is not kept entirely in the background.”

  Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 357, June, 1845

• “In spite, however, of the great temptation of overlooking a favourite divertisement, with variations so truly original, home we went, hardly pausing to observe the housing of Master Keep's wheat harvest.”

  The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 14, No. 399, Supplementary Number

• “He began also the Translation of _Heliodorus_ his _Æthiopick_ History, in the same kind of Verse, of which, to give the Reader the better divertisement, we shall present you with a tast.”

  The Lives of the Most Famous English Poets (1687)

• “One of the worst products of French colonial life was the class known as the "coureurs de bois," a lawless gang, half trader, half explorer, bent on divertisement, and not discouraged by misery or peril.”

  The Land We Live In The Story of Our Country

• “The little maidens seemed to pour their hearts out in the enchanting divertisement, and the whole apartment, with its dazzling lights and flowers, was full of laughter, mirth, and holiday from end to end.”

  The Youth of Jefferson A Chronicle of College Scrapes at Williamsburg, in Virginia, A.D. 1764

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