Plays

Examples

• Chemistry plays a part in every phase of life; in the arts, the industries, the household, and in the body itself, where digestion, excretion, etc. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• But the evil doesn't come from the fact that it plays horse with the Newtonian theory of the constitution. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• Colonel Berkeley and I conversed on many subjects; but there was one which was a favourite with us both--plays. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• As there are no dromedaries at hand, the band facetiously plays The Camels are coming. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• Let the heart swell into what discord it will, thus plays the rippling water on the prow of the ferry-boat ever the same tune. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• In their plays, they like to construct their own toys and appliances. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• The cat plays about her comrade's forefeet or his trunk often, until dogs approach, and then she goes aloft out of danger. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• The Colonel plays a good knife and fork at tiffin and resumes those weapons with great success at dinner. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• I don't see as anything ails the child, she would say; she runs about, and plays. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• In this respect enclosure of the land plays a part. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
• What a noble heart that man has, she thought, and how shamefully that woman plays with it! William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• It plays the part of a private detective, and its testimony in court is never doubted. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• How great a part the desolating loneliness of a city plays in seductions the individual histories in the report show. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• Enjoyment plays the cook to their homely fare, and mingles intoxication with their simple drink. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• The children dressed themselves and acted plays in the others. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• I had been at but three plays in my life, all comedies. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• The bird in the air, and the beast in the field, each plays his part and passes to the great unknown, leaving no record; man himself is mortal, but his work is immortal. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• It is not enough just to introduce plays and games, hand work and manual exercises. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• Since resistance plays so important a r?le in electricity, it becomes necessary to have a unit of resistance. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• No man of any brain can open at a good part of one of his plays without falling into the flow of his meaning immediately. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
• Jack said, I pass--he plays euchre sometimes--and we all passed in turn. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• I know all Shakespeare's plays. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
• Mr. Bagnet suddenly interposes, Plays the fife. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• The music plays the old air from John of Paris, Ah quel plaisir d'etre en voyage. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• He had previously been getting $80 a month, and had eked this out by copying plays for the theatre. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• Plays and novels have indeed an overwhelming political importance, as the moderns have maintained. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• Conscious instruction plays a part; prior approvals and disapprovals have a large influence. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• Repulsion, as well as attraction, plays a part among the particles of matter disseminated in space. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• Love is no mischievous urchin, who plays with his arrows; no, he is a great and terrible divinity, who comes to every mortal but once in life. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
• Except for this aggression upon China, Japan plays no part in our history before the nineteenth century. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.

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