547 examples of play by in sentences

Wouldn't she allow him to step in and explain how her work could be materially lessened and her labour turned to play by a contrivance so simple that a child could run it?

The character of this adventurer has been made quite prominent in literature, having been the subject of Ford's tragedy, The Chronicle History of Perkin Warbeck (1634), of a play by Charles Macklin, King Henry VII, or the Popish Impostor (1716), and of Joseph Elderton's drama, The Pretender.

She had had scarcely time to seat herself, and her face was still flushed with exercise, while her dimples were revealed by a sort of shy smile at the consciousness of having been so nearly caught in her rompish play by such an exquisite.

'I daresay there are a good many people who would not take their girls to see a play by Dumas,' said Lady Kirkbank, 'but I make a point of letting my girls see everything.

Lancheinge of the May, MS. play by W.M. Gent.

"The lightning will begin to play by and by, I suppose.

" "I cannot play by ear," said the restless young lady, angrily.

Had he hidden her away for some secret reason of his own, and then acted out the play by pretending to search for her?

R57010, 9Jan50, Frances Scott Fitzgerald Lanahan (C) BEAUTIFUL BUT DUMB, a play by Paul Gerard Smith.

THE LONG, LONG TRAIL, a play by Paul Gerard Smith.

R70760, 1Dec50, Mrs. Clara T. Purdy (W) <pb id='214.png' n='1950h2/A/0072' /> CROSSINGS, a fairy play by Walter de la Mare, with music by C. Armstrong Gibbs; illus.

THE MYSTERIOUS INN, a play by Harry E. Humphrey.

R68447, 17Oct50, Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corp. (PWH) TIN GODS, a new play by William Anthony McGuire.

George S. Kaufman (A); 27Dec60; R268296. Let 'em eat cake, a sequel to Of thee I sing, a musical play by George S. Kaufman & Morrie Ryskind.

R57010, 9Jan50, Frances Scott Fitzgerald Lanahan (C) BEAUTIFUL BUT DUMB, a play by Paul Gerard Smith.

R60376, 3Apr50, Margaret Pintner (W) & Bess V. Cunningham (A) PRINCE ITALY, a play by Frances Lightner.

THE MYSTERIOUS INN, a play by Harry E. Humphrey.

WEIL, JOSEPH. Strictly dishonorable; from the famous stage play by Preston Sturges.

Novelized by Gerald Breitigam, from the screen play by W. P. Lipscomb & S. N. Behrman.

The Silver streak, a screen play by Roger

A child needs to play by himself as well as with others.

The theme of my assertion is, that a recently published play by the name of Puss in Boots is a good play. JACKPUD.

"You said, jus' now, you used to play by the sea, somewheres beneath that line o' white houses you was tellin' of.

It is humiliating to me to confess that I have not the faintest recollection of "Brothers," the play by Coghlan, in which I see by the evidence of an old play-bill that I made my first appearance under Mr. Hare's management.

Long ago, when you were a little boy or a little girl,perhaps not so very long ago, either,were you never interrupted in your play by being called in to have your face washed, your hair combed, and your soiled apron exchanged for a clean one, preparatory to an introduction to Mrs. Smith, or Dr. Jones, or Aunt Judkins, your mother's early friend?

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