divertisements

Note: 65. 'divertisements': recreations, diversions.

The Gentlewomans Companion [Unknown] 1589

"I want to say, though, that your eyes will bulge like the knobs on a washstand drawer when you see what I've got, and then come to look at the bill for such a stupendous, striking, and singularly successful aggregation of freaks, acts, and divertisements embodied in this colossal and cataclysmic congregation of --"

Ted Strong's Motor Car Edward C. Taylor

Before you indulge in the luxury of murder, or even the minor divertisements of mobbing, ducking, hustling, and stoning, why not try the expedient of making it up with the Bosses?

Punchinello, Volume 1, No. 17, July 23, 1870 Various

Their entertainment happening to be upon divertisements, and different ways of making merry, the calenders rose and danced after their fashion, which augmented the good opinion the ladies had conceived of them, and procured them the esteem of the caliph and his companions.

The Arabian Nights Entertainments - Volume 01 Anonymous

And the dutiful son, who seems to have no inconsiderable portion of the paternal penchant for broken heads and other similar divertisements, in three weeks from the receipt of the letter found himself on board the Hydra, and rapidly approaching the classic shores of Sidon, Tyre, Ptolemais; the scenes of scriptural records and deeds of chivalry -- Palestine -- the Holy Land.

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, No. CCCXXXVI. October, 1843. Vol. LIV. Various

No flirting nor coquetting; no gambling of old ladies nor hoyden chattering and romping of young ones; no self-satisfied struttings of wealthy gentlemen with their brains in their pockets; nor amusing conceits and monkey divertisements of smart young gentlemen with no brains at all.

Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 8 Charles Herbert Sylvester

The pleasure, says he, and the divertisements I took after my third voyage, had not charms enough to divert me from another.

The Arabian Nights Entertainments - Volume 01 Anonymous

There is a certain sameness in other divertisements, which must become irksome to the spectator.

The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor Volume I, Number 3

It was past midnight before those divertisements ended.

The Arabian Nights Entertainments - Volume 01 Anonymous

No flirting nor coquetting; 15 no gambling of old ladies nor hoyden chattering and romping of young ones; no self-satisfied struttings of wealthy gentlemen with their brains in their pockets nor amusing conceits and monkey divertisements of smart young gentlemen with no brains at all.

Story Hour Readings: Seventh Year 1923