amusable

Which I am now past forty, Custodian, and not one penny the worse that I can see; as amusable as ever; to be on board ship is reward enough for me; give me the wages of going on — in a schooner!

Vailima Letters 2005

-- The Arabs are far more amusable, far more jovial and open-hearted.

The International Monthly Magazine, Volume 1, No. 1, August 1850 of Literature, Science and Art. Various

But "perlite" or not, there can be no question of the astounding stupidity of the West Indian rank and file, a stupidity amusing if you are in an amusable mood, unendurable if you neglect to pack your patience among your bag of supplies in the morning.

Zone Policeman 88; a close range study of the Panama canal and its workers Harry Alverson Franck 1921

He went with his father-in-law to see Mr. Warren in Jefferson Scattering Batkins, and the Squire grimly appreciated the burlesque of the member from Cranberry Centre; but he was otherwise not a very amusable person, and off his own ground he was not conversable, while he refused to betray his impressions of many things that Bartley expected to astonish him.

A Modern Instance William Dean Howells 1878

She feared it would be very dull at first, but hoped that some friends who were expected would amuse that très amusable petite personne.

The Semi-Attached Couple 1860

Madame de Maintenon's difficulty (and with fewer resources to meet it) of trying to amuse a man who was not amusable.

Sylvia's Lovers — Complete Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell 1837

Madame de Maintenon's difficulty (and with fewer resources to meet it) of trying to amuse a man who was not amusable.

Sylvia's Lovers — Volume 1 Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell 1837

It may have often been placed on her table when Maintenon was paying the penalty of her hard-earned greatness by the painful task of endeavouring -- as she acknowledged -- to amuse a man who was no longer amusable.

The Idler in France Marguerite Blessington 1819

Heaven knows, I am not a brilliant conversationalist, but she was the most easily amusable person in the world -- interested in everything that interested me, and I disdamaged myself (to use one of her

Peter Ibbetson George Du Maurier 1865