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1654 W. Charleton Physiologia Epicuro-Gassendo-Charltoniana ii. iv. 120 The species of Regular Figures be..so amusingly various; as that the mind of man..cannot attain to a..praecise description of them all.

1727 W. Pattison Poet. Wks. I. 2 When stretch'd at Ease, amusingly we lay, How tunefully the Minutes danc'd away!

1744 T. Cannon Apollo 13 The Fairy-Tale amusingly is told.

1812 Examiner 3 May 282/2 Our minds should be..impressed with the immorality of the habit, otherwise so amusingly depicted.

1881 Athenæum 15 Jan. 104/1 In the boy's dress..she is amusingly ill at ease.

1930 M. Lowry Let. Dec. in Sursum Corda! (1995) I. 79 It is nothing very much, you understand, only very exciting and quite amusingly bawdy.

2001 Times 4 May ii. 30/3 Wayne loses his girlfriend to an amusingly slick executive.

1807 Morning Chron. 8 Jan. 3/3 The Constitutionnel, however, places both it [sc. the Presse] and the Débats in the same category, and then compares, amusingly enough, the very opposite opinions put forth by both.

1887 Forum Nov. 254 The Whigs..were vehement in these denunciations of the veto power... And, amusingly enough, very little has been heard of this frightful menace to our liberties since the Whigs..elected a president of their own.

1971 Motor Boating & Sailing July 50/3 Amusingly, there is a fake shell that is worth more than its real counterpart.

2018 Sun (Nexis) 1 Oct. 27 The children clearly benefit from having the OAPs' undivided attention... And, amusingly, they were picking up a lot of the language of the older residents.