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.

Becket a puzzle to historians His early history His gradual elevation Friendship with Henry II.

"And people paint fruit, and dead fish on platters, and pitchers of lemonade with ice in,why don't you try things like those?" "I suppose they're easier," Olive returned with a sigh, "but who could bear to do them when there are living, breathing, moving things; things that puzzle you by looking different every minute?

It's a puzzle to me," confessed the treasurer.

" Mike changed quickly, and went off, leaving Psmith, who was fond of simple pleasures in his spare time, earnestly occupied with a puzzle which had been scattered through the land by a weekly paper.

" "I'm not talking about your rotten puzzle.

Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679) is one of the writers that puzzle the historian with a doubt as to whether or not he should be included in the story of literature.

At best, he is the writer of exquisite lyrics; at worst, he is mad only "north-northwest," like Hamlet; and the puzzle is to find the method in his madness.

'With respect to the discordance of dips of the dipping-needles, which for years past had been a source of great trouble and puzzle, the Report states that 'The dipping-needles are still a source of anxiety.

And here I should tell how that there was no great stinking in that place where did be so many of the Slug-beasts, and this to puzzle me; and in the end to make me think that some of those horrid things did stench more great than others; but yet I to have no certainty in this matter, as you do perceive.

And this, our constant puzzle, shall be likewise to you; and you to perceive how that we did go utter wary.

And indeed, I do mind how that I askt Mine Own an olden puzzle, that did come out of the vagueness of my Memory-dreams.

It was impossible, of course, even if one had understood their language, to find out what notions they attached to it all; and all I could do, on looking at these heathen idol chapels, in the midst of a Christian and civilised land, was to ponder, in sadness and astonishment, over a puzzle as yet to me inexplicable; namely, how human beings first got into their heads the vagary of worshipping images.

The clerk awoke from his indifference, and was making notes of the bids with a squeaking quill, the bailiff frowned as being puzzled, and thinking that none had a right to puzzle him.

For what else is school divinity, how many doth it puzzle?

"That certainly sounds hard enough to puzzle even a fairy.

How I puzzle 'em out at last is the wonder.

I will bridle my pen another time, & not teaze and puzzle you with my aridities.

Or poem and dedication may be both older than they pretend to; but then some hint might have been given; for, as it stands, it may only serve some day to puzzle the parish reckoning.

There was silence; the uncle puffed away at his pipe; he was a good man, and had more brains than his appearance warranted, but Teddy's speeches were often a sore puzzle to him.

"It'll puzzle them to come up wi' nags like ours.

The gates were still thronged, although to the people already on the stands it was a puzzle where the newcomers were going to find seats.

I ain't the sort of thinker who can puzzle out something like that.

But on Wednesday he had grown quite insupportable, and his mother was compelled to banish him from her own bedroom, and giving him a puzzle she had purchased, requested him to go into the dining-room, and put them all together.

The great puzzle revolved about the strange actions of the girl; her part in the affair presenting an unsolvable riddle.

He would puzzle out things for himselfstick to his own programme and ideas.