Do we say : "play" vs "cry" ?

“We have got a play,” said he. “

"Don't cry, dear, dear one!

The town did not awake; or, if it did, the drowsy slumberers mistook the cry either for something frightful in a dream, or for the noise of witches, whose voices, at that period, were often heard to pass over the settlements or lonely cottages, as they rode with Satan through the air.

The indoor exercises, formerly intermittently practised, subsequently abandoned, prescribed in Eugen Sandow’s Physical Strength and How to Obtain It which, designed particularly for commercial men engaged in sedentary occupations, were to be made with mental concentration in front of a mirror so as to bring into play the various families of muscles and produce successively a pleasant rigidity, a more pleasant relaxation and the most pleasant repristination of juvenile agility.

Then while the echoes of that glad cry yet rang round the rocky walls, Ayesha motioned to me to stand at her side, and taking Leo by the hand drew him towards her, so that now he faced the white-robed company.

George has never learned to play the banjo to this day.

Machines is their cry, their chimera, their panacea.

I would sometimes lie down, and let five or six of themdance on my hand; and at last the boys and girls would venture tocome and play at hide-and-seek in my hair.

Why don’t you play them as I do?

We should, indeed, expect that the dream, even if it was not originally an expedient process, would have acquired some function in the play of forces of the psychic life.

His muscles were surcharged with vitality, and snapped into play sharply, like steel springs.

It is wonderful what tricks our dreams play us, and how conveniently we can imagine.)

But when among the mellay of men the Olympians were come down, then leapt up in her might Strife, rouser of hosts, then sent forth Athene a cry, now standing by the hollowed trench without the wall, and now on the echoing shores she shouted aloud.

The cry had been loud on account of its vehemence, but it had pealed out from somewhere far off on the shadowy plain.

Don’t you play the giddy ox with me!

Yet, I hope, I may affirm, and without vanity, that, by imitating him, I have excelled myself throughout the play; and particularly, that I prefer the scene betwixt Antony and Ventidius in the first act, to anything which I have written in this kind.

Kywitt, kywitt, kywitt, I cry, Oh what a beautiful bird am I!"

The idea of their frightening her, and making her cry, and of my not being there to comfort her, was so excruciating, that it impelled me to write a wild letter to Mr. Spenlow, beseeching him not to visit upon her the consequences of my awful destiny.

Don't cry, dear, but just exert yourself a bit, and fix us up something to eat.

No, sir; master's made away with; he was made, away with eight days ago, when we heard him cry out upon the name of God; and who's in there instead of him, and why it stays there, is a thing that cries to Heaven, Mr. Utterson!"

The light, bold, fluttering little figure turned and came back safe to me, and I soon laughed at my fears, and at the cry I had uttered; fruitlessly in any case, for there was no one near.

The air was The Resurrection of Lazarus, which old M. Daae used to play to us in his hours of melancholy and of faith.

If you will stop a moment and realize how easily you concentrate your attention when you are witnessing an interesting play, or listening to a beautiful rendition of some great masterpiece of musical composition, or gazing at some miracle of art, you will see what I mean.

In that look was embodied so dreadful a suffering and so deadly a hatred, that he gave a cry and flew to her; but it was too late.

I used to play here when I was a kid.

The issue will be that some one will arise to play the part of T’ien Ch’ang , or of the six nobles of Tsin.

This Nicholas gan mercy for to cry,And spake so fair, and proffer’d him so fast, That she her love him granted at the last, And swore her oath by Saint Thomas of Kent, That she would be at his commandement, When that she may her leisure well espy.

“No, I’m not going to play any more,” observed Kalganov, “I’velost fifty roubles to them just now.”

26:026:015 Thus saith the Lord GOD to Tyrus; Shall not the isles shake at the sound of thy fall, when the wounded cry, when the slaughter is made in the midst of thee?

You have made me so restless that I cannot read, or play, or do anything.

The men rose to their feet to play the last tricks, talking and gesticulating.

Is it a play-day for the whole world?

Christine stopped, at the thought of the vision that had scared her, while the echoes of the night, which had repeated the name of Erik, now thrice moaned the cry: "Horror! ...

29:001:014 Sanctify ye a fast, call a solemn assembly, gather the elders and all the inhabitants of the land into the house of the LORD your God, and cry unto the LORD, 29:001:015 Alas for the day!

From that day the search is unceasing for her, and the cry goes on from one to the other that in her the world has lost its one joy!

Stephen, still trembling at his soul’s cry, heard warm running sunlight and in the air behind him friendly words.

Send to Exeter 'Change, Sambo"; but seeing Jos ready almost to cry with vexation, the old joker stopped his laughter, and said, holding out his hand to his son, "It's all fair on the Stock Exchange, Jos--and, Sambo, never mind the elephant, but give me and Mr. Jos a glass of Champagne.

Even as that fear came back to me came a cry from within; but this time it was not the cry of a puma.

She is waiting for you to charm her, and if you play she will come closer to the earth.

Then a low cry of horror escaped the three white men.

Oh, mamma, don’t cry so pitifully,—it cuts me to the heart.’

"'You, Swamiji, have a part to play in the coming harmonious exchange between Orient and Occident.

It is only where men are to be found neither too rich and powerful to be tempted into extravagant indulgences nor too poor and limited to care for anything beyond the daily need that those disinterested curiosities and serene impulses can have play that give sane philosophy and science and great art to the world, and the plutocracy of Rome had made such a class impossible.

This prison caused me not for to cry;But I was hurt right now thorough mine eye Into mine heart; that will my bane* be. *

The maxim is often quoted of “All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy;” but all play and no work makes him something greatly worse.

But even where Patroklos saw the folk thickest in the rout, thither did he guide his horses with a cry, and under his axle-trees men fell prone from their chariots, and the cars were overturned with a din of shattering.

Yonder is a lute, which makes me believe that the lady understands playing upon it; and if you can prevail with her to play but one tune, I shall go away perfectly satisfied; for a lute, sir, is an instrument I am particularly fond of."

24:003:004 Wilt thou not from this time cry unto me, My father, thou art the guide of my youth?

Maybe I shouldn't play with the old man, I thought, feeling guilty.

There is so much to do about the play for Christmas night," said Jo, marching up and down, with her hands behind her back, and her nose in the air.