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 Gardiner
The evenings were passed either in Mrs. Lockhart's bedroom or in chatting quietly by the fireside below, but wherever we were he was always the same kind, unostentatious, amusing, and Amusable companion.
"Marriage"
Susan Edmonstone Ferrier
Even when she was old and ill, she was always Amusable, and her laughter at any little bit of fun would even then ring through her house as gaily as though the outburst had been that of a child's frank merriment.
"Harriet Martineau"
Florence Fenwick Miller