toymen's

Updated: June 5, 2025

You have not realized it, but at present you are like the toymen's dolls, all gaudy colouring outside, and inside, fragile clay.

of Samosata Lucian - Works of Lucian of Samosata — Volume 02

"In a second we had spurred our horses to the gallop to get out of sight of this hideous charnel-house, of which I long continued to think in my sleepless nights. "Turning to the left, we entered a street which I will call, in allusion to the trade of its inhabitants, the Toymen's.... But what means this noisy music, this charivari of flutes and trumpets, drums, and stringed instruments?

W. H. Davenport Adams - Celebrated Women Travellers of the Nineteenth Century