Playing

Examples

• The truth is, Harriet, that my playing is just good enough to be praised, but Jane Fairfax's is much beyond it. Jane Austen. Emma.
• I see you were not,' said the stranger; an expression of quiet sarcasm playing about his mouth; 'or you have known my name. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
• It is not until the last thousand years B.C. that we begin to find mounted soldiers, as distinct from charioteers, playing a part in warfare. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Why should you expect me to oblige you by hearing you play the flute, any more than I should expect you to oblige me by not playing it? George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• I'm not playing, I never do, said Frank, dismayed at the sentimental predicament out of which he was to rescue the absurd couple. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• Have you been playing very much? Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
• I don't defend the folly of playing you a trick under the circumstances. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• Running, wrestling, cudgel-playing, throwing the javelin, drawing the bow, etc. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• There were odd little fires playing in his eyes, he seemed to have turned into something wicked and flickering, mocking, suggestive, quite impossible. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• Women were playing; they were masked, some of them; this license was allowed in these wild times of carnival. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• You'll be walking in your sleep next, my woman, and playing the whole round of your distempered antics. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• An etching of a child playing with a Blenheim spaniel happened to flutter to the floor. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• But I want to find out about them, and who they are, and what their object was in playing this prank--if it was a prank--upon me. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
• They were being very good for the moment, playing the role perfectly of two obedient children. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• The whole time he heard neither voice nor tread--nothing but the faint music playing a solemn march. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.

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