Mr. Gibbs, toying idly with the handle of his, eyed them carefully.

"So Janet is better," said Soeur Angélique, toying caressingly with the wavy brown hair tossed over his forehead.

On the hand that toyed carelessly with the fob of his watch flashed a diamond; another sparkled in his cravat.

Again I was possessed by a strange, savage playfulness like that which impels a cat or leopard to toy daintily and tenderly with its prey for a while before the final scrunch.

The smoking-room of the House of Commons is his shrine, and there, poised in an American rocking-chair and delicately toying with a cigarette, he unlocks the varied treasures of his well-stored memory, and throws over the changing scenes of life the mild light of his genial philosophy.

The Colonel toyed happily with another letter (while the Senior Captain made a careful census of the grounds at the bottom of his coffee-cup), took the range of the manure-heap outside the window from the angles of the table-legs, rose, and departed with his correspondence, summoning Williams to follow him.

" Her sweet head Lay like a lily on his mailed breast, While she toyed lightly with the yellow scarf That floated from his helmet.

Then Félicité uttered: "They have no sympathy, they do not care!" Her head fell forward again, and from time to time, mechanically, she toyed with the long knitting-needles on the work-table.

He moved over to the couch and sat on the edge of it, absent-mindedly toying with her hand.

Only enough wind stirred to toy softly with the gay little pennons streaming from the many boats winding their way to the rendezvous, and to throw dancing shadows of light upon the water from the torches at their prow.

Put all the gifts, wrapped in brown tissue paper and tied with gay ribbons, in a toy wigwam which you can make with three sticks and a piece of brown burlap.

'A tout à l'heure, then,' she twittered gaily; and they left as they had come, Villedo affectionately toying with Morenita's hand.

You believe in this; to me it is a dream, with which my fancy, when idle, willingly toys.

Her right hand might appropriately have been toying with the orb of empire on the mantelpiece, and her left, which hung down beside her, might have loosely held the sceptre.