Playthings
[pleɪ,θɪŋz]
Examples
- In progress of time, I also became a father, and our little darlings, our playthings and delights, called forth a thousand new and delicious feelings. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- They have brought the whole coach full of playthings for the children. Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
- Do ye suppose they really be the devil's playthings, Mr. Wildeve? Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- Werner's father was an overseer of iron-works, and furnished his son with mineral specimens as playthings before the chil d could pronounce their names. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
Editor: Yvonne