"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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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 ...

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.

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.

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

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.

What are his romantic plays?

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

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

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

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

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.

Four Shakespearean plays.

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.

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.