Meanings of entertained before in English

One great fear Mrs. Gaunt had entertained before marriage ceased to haunt her.

The more particularly that I was never so entertained before.

You entertained them as they had never been entertained before-likea queen-andthey knew it.

It's only 3:00, and I want to be properly entertained before dinner.

These thoughts sprang at once into his reflection, but were barely entertained before nobler ones displaced them.

Robert Raku Ponnick will rake you over the coals and entertain you like you never been entertained before.

I await your criticism on 'Jane Eyre' now with other sentiments than I entertained before the perusal of 'Ranthorpe.'

Questions these which ought to be entertained before we take up the arguments which have been advanced against this theory.

The arrival of fresh letters from Spain gave a most unequivocal evidence of the royal determination, if, indeed, any doubt could be rationally entertained before.