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  • Dere funn to watch fake wuns adn reel at musement parkx adn zoos, but dere be a lot uv uthers owt dere, both petz adn wyld, who needs owr concern.

    JOY - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008

  • With a motion of her body, as of one shaking off dreams, she threw away the be-musement in which she had sat.

    If Winter Comes 1925

  • I live in the bresh here like a varmint, never seein 'nor hearin' nothin ', and what other' musement kin

    Waifs and Strays Part 1 O. Henry 1886

  • As lots ob de sailors went ashoah fur 'sertion as well as fur' musement, de navay people winked dere lef 'eye at de tricks ob ole Tom.

    The Story of Paul Boyton Voyages on All the Great Rivers of the World Paul Boyton 1881

  • One day he passed by my wife hoeing de sugarcane and he gib her cut wid whip, jus 'out of' musement.

    By Sheer Pluck, a Tale of the Ashanti War 1867

  • Patrick Livingston, author of "Summer Dreams," about Bob Lo Island, drew from his experience working on the Bob-Lo ferry as the impetus for his book recalling the heyday of what once was Michigan and Canada's premier summ er musement park.

    unknown title 2009

  • "Now, f'ler cit'zens, I will continue for your 'musement by puttin' next two knives on right and lef 'sides of his cheek.

    Bucky O'Connor William MacLeod Raine 1912

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  • Charles' Pierce's concept: the mind's "Pure Play without any breach of continuity" in which the mind ponders freely

    February 19, 2019