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Updated: June 26, 2025
And all at once little Jean, Monsieur Jean, having finished sucking, turned round, displaying his milk-smeared lips, and perceived the machine, the pretty plaything which walked about by itself. At sight of it, his eyes sparkled, dimples appeared on his plump cheeks, and, stretching out his quivering chubby hands, he raised a crow of delight.
He saw himself a plaything in the hands of envy, treachery, and greed. What was he in this world of contending ambitions? A child sacrificing everything to the pursuit of pleasure and the gratification of vanity; a poet whose thoughts never went beyond the moment, a moth flitting from one bright gleaming object to another.
I'm not a child, Miss Van Wyck." "What are you?" she taunted. "A prophet. Jerry is no woman's plaything. Let him be. You don't know him as I do. I warn you." She suddenly went into a fit of laughter, meant to ruffle my dignity. "Off with my head! If you knew how much you remind me of the Queen in 'Alice in Wonderland'!" "I'm sorry you won't take me seriously." "I can't," she laughed again.
In the meanwhile Reuben had been supplied with something that served the purpose of a plaything by Mary Roscoe, and being seated in a corner of the room away from harm or interference, the little fellow shortly became so drowsy, that before long, notwithstanding the noise and chattering about him, his head drooped on his bosom, and he was so sound asleep that he was unconscious of his uncomfortable position.
By degrees, first one stout husband and then another, men took to the bottle; the curse of effeminacy was lifted; the habit grew on men of all sizes. It was not a perfect method, it blacked too many other things besides shoes, and provided an undesirable plaything for baby, but it was a step forward.
He held in his hand a long, single barrel, rifle-bored duelling pistol of the type used by gentlemen at the beginning of the century. Where he had got it she did not know, but always it had been his plaything. "O Jimmie you would not " exclaimed the woman rising and reaching for it. "Tush " he said bitterly "tush that's the way Richard Travis talks, ain't it? Does not my very voice sound like his?
As soon as Lysias spied a small packet in the boy's hand he did not take it from him but snatched up the child, who was by no means remarkably small, by the leather belt that fastened up his loin-cloth, tossed him up as if he were a plaything, and set him down on the table by his side, exclaiming: "I will teach you to fly, my little hippopotamus! Now, show me what you have got."
No living person can open the Little Brass God without first learning the way to do it. In fact, the only way the toy can be opened by one unfamiliar with the secret is to break it open with an axe! And that would hardly be done, as the little fellow is rather a cute plaything." "And so, if the will is there, a burglar stole it.
When she had played with her passion, she had given Christian little thought; she had felt it childish to bring her husband into an amusement that she believed perfectly harmless; then, when she wished to break her plaything, and found it made of iron and turning more and more into a tyrannical yoke, she called to her aid the conjugal divinities, but in too faint a voice to be heard.
You certainly can never feel to any relative as you do to my father and yours." "Your father does not find me as important to his happiness as he once did, Miriam. You have absorbed his whole affection of late; even Mabel, once his darling and plaything, is put aside." "He surrendered her to me again, Evelyn, when I returned; this is all, believe me.
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