Is not such a movement, large and free, the true remedy for our modern social distractions and calamities?
"The Expositor's Bible: The Book of Exodus"
G. A. Chadwick
A great attraction would be the absence of distractions such as you'd have in larger centres, and very important, is the pleasant air here.
"From Edinburgh to India & Burmah"
William G. Burn Murdoch
This was their respite from worries about survival to which drugs or snookers had been ineffective distractions.
"Corpus of a Siam Mosquito"
Steven Sills