Player

Examples

• Why you are some strolling player perhaps! Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• He had played nearly every day at one club or other, but he was a cautious player, and usually rose a winner. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• The dame sprang toward the chief player. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• In the brass wind instruments such as horn, trombone, and trumpet, the lips of the player vibrate and excite the air within. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• A piano gives out sound whenever a player strikes the keys and sets in motion the various wires within the piano; speech and song are caused by the motion of chest, vocal cords, and lips. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• He was a whist player himself, and perhaps might feel that it would not much amuse him to have her for a partner. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
• At the narrow end of the cue, the tapering ceases about three-quarters of an inch from the end and flanges out according to the kind of tip the player prefers. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• The squares are to enable the player to properly judge the angles of play. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• I'm like a ball-player that bats two hundred and thirty and knows he's no better. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
• I think Miss Fairfax dances very well; and Mrs. Weston is the very best country-dance player, without exception, in England. Jane Austen. Emma.
• Changes in pitch are also produced by variation in the player's breathing. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• The cobbler, the flute player, the soldier, have undergone the discipline of experience to acquire the skill they have. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• You will want your whist at home when we go to Lowick, and Henrietta Noble never was a whist-player. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• The man shook his head with the big padded-leather helmet like a football player's on it and said, There is no ammunition for the machine gun. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• He was a man of far greater breadth and capacity than any other player in this last act of the Republican drama in Rome. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• But what do you say to flute-makers and flute-players? Plato. The Republic.
• It's ridiculous, ma'am,' said Bitzer, 'because the chances are against the players. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
• The players listen very carefully and respectfully to all that the clever men have to say about what is to happen in the next generation. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• These are termed bridge hooks and are for the purpose of having the cue-bridge ready of access for the players when necessary. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• There are more billiard players in the United States than there are baseball players; not mere spectators, but actual players. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• But heedless of the peasant's warning, the players moved straightway toward the castle. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• We may place our men, then, I think,' observed the officer, with as much indifference as if the principals were chess-men, and the seconds players. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• At all hours of the day and night in walking the streets, the eye was regaled, on every block near the water front, by the sight of players at faro. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• Plato gave his account of knowledge on the basis of an analysis of the knowledge of cobblers, carpenters, players of musical instruments, etc. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• You will not like us at Middlemarch, I feel sure, she said, when the whist-players were settled. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• The exorbitant rewards of players, opera-singers, opera-dancers, etc. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• They had been waiting outside for the conclusion of the play, as the players had waited for the conclusion of the dance. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• Pilar was sitting by the fire, her chair turned so that she could see over the shoulders of the two card players who had their backs to her. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• The whist-players were Mr. Pickwick and the old lady, Mr. Miller and the fat gentleman. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• This would not secure a band leader, nor good players on certain instruments. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.

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