amusive
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Whitehead says: "To me 'twas given to wake th' amusive reed," and Chandler, in his Travels in Greece, speaks of the wind "murmuring amusively among the pines."
From Notes and Queries, Number 179, April 2, 1853. A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc by George Bell
On clouds, where Fancy’s beam amusive plays, Shall heedless Hope the towering fabric raise?
From The Minstrel; or the Progress of Genius with some other poems by James Beattie
So, ye manufacturers of snake stories horrific, amusive, or instructive, put that against your tales of blacksnakes, copperheads, cotton-mouths, horn-tails, water-mocassins, and the whole tribe else.
From Forest and Frontiers Or, Adventures Among the Indians by Roualeyn Gordon-Cumming
He uses too many Latin epithets, like amusive and precipitant, and calls a fish-line "The floating line snatched from the hoary steed."
From Brief History of English and American Literature by Henry A. (Henry Augustin) Beers
Earth has her gorgeous towns; the earth-circling sea Has spires and mansions more amusive still— Men's volant homes that measure liquid space On wheel or wing.
From The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 17, No. 493, June 11, 1831 by Various
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