108 adjectives to describe toys

"Looks like a harmless little toy to burn black powder, don't she?"

" I offered her the freedom of the writing-paper drawer; and, while I looked on, she folded and refolded with a practiced hand, until the table beside us was covered, not only with boats compared with which mine was as a dory to an ocean liner, but also with a score of other pretty and somewhat intricate paper toys.

" Half an hour later he found himself shown into a smartly furnished office where Mr. Gavin Ramsay sat at a handsome desk surrounded by shelves and cabinets whereon and wherein were set out the products of the brains of many inventorsmodels of machines, mechanical toys, labour-saving notions, things plainly useful, things obviously extravagant.

For this ought to be strong enough to bear unskilled handling and vigorous movements, for a broken toy ought to be a tragedy.

The girl made candy, and the boy carved wooden toys, which they sold at the farm houses.

The wheels, bodies and tongues of the carts; and the canopies that cover those in which women are carried, are nightmares of yellows, greens, blues, reds and purples, like cheap wooden toys.

The nearest to the leopard drew a dagger with a jeweled hilt, a mere toy with a light blade hardly longer than his hand.

Whenever the boys came to her for money to get such things as candy and ice cream, expensive toys, and other things that boys often crave, she asked them why they wanted them.

What was considered a freak fifteen years ago, and a costly toy within the present decade, is now a necessity in business and pleasure.

As child forsakes his favourite toy, His sisters' sport, his wild bird's nest; And climbing to his mother's breast, Enjoys yet more his former joy I lose to find.

It is regarded as a scientific toy, yet everybody wishes to see an instrument by which the human eye indefinitely multiplies its power.

And to be sick of love, a childish toy: These are mine honours now the world about, My name disgrac'd to raise again therefore, And in this age mine ancient renown By mighty acts intending to restore, Down to the earth in wrath now am I come; And in this place such wonders shall ye hear, As these your stubborn and disdainful hearts In melting tears and humble yielding fear Shall soon relent by sight of others' smarts.

CO., INC. Colleen Moore's doll house; the story of the most exquisite toy in the world.

Held in the infant's grasp Is a tiny, lifeless toy; In the father's firm yet tender clasp Is his last great hope,his boy!

The favorite Chinese toy remains the theatrical scene where the family is treated à la Molière.

Action ought to exist for the sake of character: when the relation is reversed, the play may be an ingenious toy, but scarcely a vital work of art.

There were a number of books and small ornamental toys which had been given hima drawing slate with pencils, colored chalks, a small box of colors, some little plates which he had colored, in his own untaught stylea commenced copy of the hymn, "I know that my Redeemer liveth" an unfinished letter to his grandpapa, and some torn leaves which he had found with passages of scripture upon thema copy of the "lines on the death of an only son."

THE LOVE toy, anonymous.

In pleasant toys time to beguile? Do not, O do not trouble me, So sweet content I feel and see. All my joys to this are folly, None so divine as melancholy.

He felt willing to forego the pleasure of spending his dollar for himself, for any pleasing toys that he might help a poor wanderer on the earth.

Parker nodded, pursing his lips, and kept on nodding like a broken automatic toy.

In fine, cogitationes somniantibus similes, id vigilant, quod alii somniant cogitabundi, still, saith Avicenna, they wake, as others dream, and such for the most part are their imaginations and conceits, absurd, vain, foolish toys, yet they are most curious and solicitous, continual, et supra modum, Rhasis cont.

They then spread a mat on the ground, which they covered with a mantle, on which they laid some golden toys made in form of birds and lizards, and three strings of gold beads, desiring us to accept these presents in a friendly manner, being all the gold they could collect, which did not exceed the value of 200 crowns.

His daughter was to him a precious toy, on which he tried jokes, played tricks, and lavished gifts, for the joy of seeing the prettiness of her reactions to his treatment.

He sat in a big chair by the fire-place, and carved whistles and ships and fantastic toys for the children, listening all the time intently to every word which fell from Draxy's lips.

108 adjectives to describe  toys