1750 examples of toying in sentences

"The affair of the English lady is a most extraordinary one," remarked the Chief of Police, toying with his pen as he sat at his big table.

he muttered to himself; "methinks I see a paleface toying with a dusky maiden.

She slipped to a place on the arm of Gaynor's chair, her hand, whose well-kept beauty caught and held King's eyes for a moment, toying with her husband's greying hair.

We not only have diminutive golf sticks and tennis rackets manufactured for their use as soon as they would play our games; when they show signs of toying with our work, we promptly set about providing them with the proper means to that end.

For a moment he looked almost capable of lunging with the spear at Commodusbut Commodus was toying with the javelin.

It was in a shaded corner that Craft was sitting, resting his folded arms on his cane, while Sharpman, seated carelessly by the table, was toying with a pencil.

He had even picked a blossom from the geranium in the hall and was toying with it like a bashful boy.

They sat very near to each other; he held her hand, toying with it; and now and again their eyes met with the look that flutters before flight, that says, 'Dare I give thee all?

And when one of those feathery, fern-like fronds, toying with the breeze, comes crashing to the ground, it is ten or twelve feet long, and consists of a great backbone, as thick at the base as a man's leg, with a close-set row of swords on either side, about a yard in length.

Carroll was toying idly with a gold pencil on the end of his waldemar.

" "No, Annette, I never seek amusement in toying with human hearts.

[Illustration: O] One evening I was sitting, coiled up in the slime at the bottom of my dug-out, toying with the mud enveloping my boots, when a head appeared at a gap in my mackintosh doorway and said, "The Colonel wants to see you, sir."

Stood toying with his bayonet and waiting for contradiction.

It was around this time, June 1983, if I recall the month correctly, that a mutual friend in the printing business in Mumbai and Goa, told me that A.C. Fernandes, Patrao of the Panjim stationers Casa J.D. Fernandes, was toying with the idea of an English-language daily.

Thus if a tradesman, with whom your social relations are slight, should chance to find you toying with the coppers in his till, you may possibly explain that you are interested in Numismatics and are a Collector of Coins; and he may possibly believe you.

Austria, though she had lately fallen to a somewhat treasonable toying with heathens and heretics of Turkey and Prussia, still retained something of the old Catholic comfort for the soul.

He moved over to the couch and sat on the edge of it, absent-mindedly toying with her hand.

You love Lord Muddleton Mrs. Perkins (toying with her fan).

(In The New Yorker, Feb. 28, 1931) © 28Feb31; B106275. James Thurber (A); 11Feb59; R231774. You know, doctor, I've been toying with the idea of killing myself.

Toying with death.

Pym had resumed his seat at the table and was once more toying with his pen.

As he stood idly by the step-ladder, on the top of which was Dent washing away at the windows, with the pail of warm water beside him, Bob appeared to be toying with a bit of string.

The Usurper, amidst his toying with the Princess, would often endeavour to ingratiate himself with her Nightingale; and while the enraged Fadlallah peck'd at him with his Bill, beat his Wings, and shewed all the Marks of an impotent Rage, it only afforded his Rival and the Queen new Matter for their Diversion.

She stopped toying with the cards, and looked at the addresses on them.

Veronica laughed at Ophelia, also, who was a superb, black-haired woman, toying with an elegant Spanish fan, which Hamlet in his energy broke.

1750 examples of  toying  in sentences