Yes, you were right,he did haunt the place, the postman says; and I suppose they did not understand that he was merely playful, and not hungry, or who he was, else maybe he was too careless about sitting on the side fence by the street.

'Don't know the breed,' answered Van Torp, not understanding, but cheerfully playful.

" "What shall be changed after him?" asked Riah, in a compassionately playful voice.

The following is as near as the author was able to approach to Lorenzo's delicately playful tone: Carmela deare, even as the golden ball That Venus got, such are thy goodly eyes: When cherries juice is jumbled therewithall, Thy breath is like the steeme of apple pies.

Around the central figure of Arminius the essentially playful fancy of Mr. Arnold grouped other figures, including his own.

When she first arrived she was exceedingly playful, and up to her death continued perfectly harmless.

Then some ferociously playful impulse led me to steal out of my hiding-place and gather up a number of spoons and forks, a salt-cellar, a candlestick and an entree-dish and retire again behind the screen.

This was Mr. Downing's No. 2 mannerthe playful.

His letters, with their affectionately playful addresses, [Greek: daimonie, ainotate, pepon], Carissime, "Sir, my dear friend" or "[Greek: Argeion och' ariste], have you not been a spoon?" are full of the most delightful ease and verve and sympathy.

The songs interspersed (those, I mean, of the poet himself) are generally sweetly playful and altogether musical; in imagination, while we merely read them, we hear their melody.