The famous cemetery of the Medici, the Sagrestia Nuova, is a ponderous and dismal toy.

I wad na been surprised to spy You on an auld wife's flainen toy, Or aiblins some bit duddie boy, On's wyliecoat; But

Toy, cap.

Until Dotty saw this, she had been happy; but the thought of standing up with a boy who held such a beautiful toy, while her own little hands would be emptythis was too much.

She had set her heart on the toy, and her white slippers, and even her gold necklace, dwindled into nothing in comparison.

"Most folks take Crackajack for a toy pony.

The church steeples, once of an inconceivable height, were now but a scant sixty feet; and the buildings beneath them, that once had vied with old-world cathedrals, were seen to be but toy churches.

You're looking at my little toy here," he went on, twirling in his right hand a heavy malacca cane with a leaden top.

"Use your toy pistol, if you want to.

It is not, however, Goethe's poodle that meets us here, but a sleek little creature with a collar around his neck, looking very much like a wooden toy-dog.

Wounds made by toy pistols, percussion-caps, and rusty nails and tools, if neglected, often lead to serious results from blood-poisoning.

The rubber bags were taken from toy balloon-whistles.

He drew a pistol from his belt, and shook the little toy.

'But it's all a game in a toy-shop anyway, this having a place in Europe.

He is a little red-faced man who looks like a children's toy and changes his clothes about seven times a day.

" For a moment or two, though his story was ended, the General continued to toy with the stem of his wine glass.

While he was thus receiving her commands, the little dauphin, "beautiful as an angel," as the minister describes him, was capering about the room in high delight, brandishing a wooden sword, a new toy which had just been given him.

For Hamlet, and the trifling of his fauours, [Sidenote: favour,] Hold it a fashion and a toy in Bloud; A Violet in the youth of Primy Nature; Froward, not permanent; sweet not lasting

Each toy seemes Prologue, to some great amisse, [Sidenote: 'Each] So full of Artlesse iealousie is guilt,

On the floor a home-made toy boat.

Action ought to exist for the sake of character: when the relation is reversed, the play may be an ingenious toy, but scarcely a vital work of art.

They gave me England as a toy; I played with it.

In fine, the love of Madame Philippa gave you France as lightly as one might bestow a toy upon a child who whined for it.

" "Have we indeed wasted a whole half-hour in squabbling over a woman?" Richard demanded; "like two children in a worldwide toyshop over any one particular toy?

Little girls play with dolls, and with toy houses, and all the implements of making a home; but sweet and dear as the little angels are they love a boy's game, and if they can through some lucky accident participate in one it is to scream and shudder and fight, indeed like the females of the species.