124 examples of playfulness in sentences

I inquired, responding to his playfulness.

With what playfulness was he held up to scorn!

Playfulness gives place to curiosity; he looks quickly and furtively, perhaps through some tiny aperture, and probably at something he has no business to see.

And should he make the Child An instrument of falsehood, should he teach her To stretch her arms, and dim the gladsome light Of infant playfulness with piteous looks Of misery that was not LACY Troth, 'tis hard

A cold may appear periodically at the end of each month, an increase of irritability and waywardness may be observed, or, on the contrary, a decrease of the regular restless playfulness.

All the laughter and playfulness of the past came back again, and the one dream of worthy Madame Desvignes, amid her pride at being a grandmamma, was of completing her life-work, hitherto so prudently carried on, by marrying off Marthe in her turn.

Westley Keyts's suggestion that Potts be weighted with pig-iron and dumped into the healing waters, drunk or sober, was the mere playfulness of an excellent butcher unpractised in sarcasm.

How entirely men misconceive the relation of style to thought may be seen in the replies they make when their writing is objected to, or in the ludicrous attempts of clumsy playfulness and tawdry eloquence when they wish to be regarded as writers.

In the few reminiscences preserved of his childhood, it is remarkable that he appears in this period, commonly of innocence and playfulness, rarely to have evinced any symptom of generous feeling.

His uneasiness, in the first instance, had been evidently but the result of playfulness or caprice, but he now assumed a bitter and serious tone.

It seemed to be the art of Nature herself; as though, in a fit of playfulness, she had imitated her imitator.

I think it was simplicity, rather than mischief, with perhaps a youthful playfulness, that led him to this outbreak.

Indeed, there is very little of these latter qualities in him anywhererather playfulness, flashes of childlike fun, as in "The Provost," and "Bonnie Bessie Lee."

The spell which holds this captive soul She never would possess, Were not her varying features rul'd By sparkling playfulness, But when with aimless, trackless skill Is twin'd a mazy chain,

She clung round him just as she had always done, and when she turned to leave his side to take a chair, he called her back, unconsciously falling into the tone of fond playfulness that he had used in her childhood.

" "Playfulness," replied Mr. Hurst, with an odd look.

Well versed in the nature of the monarch with whom she had to deal, Mademoiselle d'Entragues accordingly gave free course to the animation and playfulness by which Henry was so easily enthralled; skilfully turning the sharp and almost imperceptible point of her satire against the younger and handsomer of his courtiers, and thus flattering at once his vanity and his self-love.

FOOTNOTES: Mamanga was the name given in playfulness by the Dauphin to Madame de Montglat.

She measured the deputy with sarcastic playfulness.

Both he and Addison had it in mind while they were blending their calm playfulness with all the clamour of the press.

Non- interference is professedly Mary's principle, but even she said, with entreaty veiled beneath the playfulness, when it was pleaded that two of the youths had oars at Cambridge, "Freshwater fish, my dears.

"How many more would you want?" returned Juliana, with a playfulness strongly tinged with asperity.

And she, missing the giggle and the playfulness from the letter, thought his distress extreme indeed.

" Tradition may be said to still survive in the country cartwright, who produces the farmer's wagon in accordance with custom and tradition, modifying the method of construction somewhat perhaps to meet altered conditions of circumstances, and then ornamenting his work by no particular set design or rule, but partly from inherited aptitude and partly from playfulness or fancy.

So I think, as I intently and curiously watch herwatch her graceful, languid silence with women, her pretty, lady-like playfulness with men.

124 examples of  playfulness  in sentences