"I protest against that deliberate piece of foul play.

After a little play he was landed safely in the boat, and another, and another, followed at almost every throw.

Shakspeare my father had put into my hands, chiefly for the sake of the historical plays, from which, however, I went on to the others.

An instructive contrast to The Degenerates may be found in a nearly contemporary play, Mrs. Dane's Defence, by Mr. Henry Arthur Jones.

I thought I had already witnessed all that was terrific on the ocean; but what I had formerly seen, had been mere child's play compared with this.

In the rhymed heroic plays, as they were called, he found just the sphere in which he was most qualified to excel.

She then began to dance and flitted around like a young girl as she broke into a rendering of a song from the musical play West Side Story: "I feel pretty ...

If it be true that poetry is bred out of joy and sorrow, one feels as if more enjoyment and less suffering had gone to the making of the Alcestis than to that of the later plays.

The class of productions known as mythological plays, which powerfully influenced the character of the pastoral drama, sprang from the union of classical tradition with the machinery of native religious representations, in Poliziano's Favola d' Orfeo.

Read a typical play, like "Noah's Flood" or "Everyman," and write a brief analysis of it.

Wood batted to Doyle, who made a beautiful stop, but with a double play in hand, was overbalanced and unable to complete it.

'There is often a high meaning in childish play,' said Froebel.

Marino Faliero, in particular, was pronounced by Dr. John Watkinsold Grobius himself"to be the dullest of dull plays;" and even the warmest admirers of the poet had to confess that the style was cumbrous.

When the Germans came down toward the Marne and the situation in the field became very critical, his controlling doctrine of attack was brought into brilliant play.

Some do not enjoy rough play, and others cannot endure to be quiet.

What are his romantic plays?

The pastoral play, "The Foresters," and later collections of poems and ballads.

The Normans undoubtedly brought religious plays with them, but it is probable that they began in England before the Conquest (1066).

I dreamed still, but the visions floated by with that sweet changeful play which soothes rather than fatigues the brain.

I have seen in that admirable Play of Oedipus, the Gown open'd wide, and the Man shown, in his Drawers and Waist coat, and never thought it an Offence before.

It is a wonderfully clever play, you know ... don't blush, Mr. Author!" "I heard the story long ago," Beatrice observed, "only of course it sounded very differently then, and we never dreamed that it would really be produced.

Four Shakespearean plays.

It looked like pleasant play, sitting among the roses day after day, Amy affecting to embroider while she taught, Casimer marching to and fro on the wide, low wall, below which lay the lake, while he learned his lesson; then standing before her to recite, or lounging on the turf in frequent fits of idleness, both talking and laughing a great deal, and generally forgetting everything but the pleasure of being together.

Hence we can account for the subtle play of instinct throughout all thinking.

Fantastic plays, which assume an order of things more or less exempt from the limitations of physical reality, ought, nevertheless, to be logically faithful to their own assumptions.