play-thing

Treating the food movement as a play-thing it tries to please us by “offering a portion of the harvest to local soup kitchen.”

Sharecropper: NYC’s Micro-Farming Public Art Project | Inhabitat 2009

Despite meticulously carrying out her duties as his personal assistant, Merlina suspected Jake regarded her as his play-thing at work.

The Playboy Boss's Chosen Bride Darcy, Emma 2006

The bent bow recoils with violence, when the hand is suddenly relaxed that forcibly held it; and sensibility, the play-thing of outward circumstances, must be subjected to authority, or moderated by reason.

A Vindication of the Rights of Woman 2002

Strengthen the female mind by enlarging it, and there will be an end to blind obedience; but, as blind obedience is ever sought for by power, tyrants and sensualists are in the right when they endeavour to keep women in the dark, because the former only want slaves, and the latter a play-thing.

A Vindication of the Rights of Woman 2002

We all feel sometimes that we are cogs in a big machine, but the best elements in our tradition remind us that man is more than a play-thing of economic forces, and that our conduct and our decisions are not necessarily determined by greed, by lust and by hate.

The Gap Between Them and Us 1974

The winter of the year was generally passed by the family of his father at Ajaccio, where they still preserve and exhibit, as the ominous play-thing of

The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 10, No. 263, Supplementary Number (1827) Various

He had proved his faithfulness, sacrificing his life for his master's play-thing.

The Sheik

_Lewie was cross_; while the fretful and half-sick child, now tired of his last play-thing, was taken in his mother's arms, and rocked till he fell into a slumber, undisturbed for perhaps an hour, except by a start, when the tears from his mother's cheek fell on his -- tears caused by the

Lewie Or, The Bended Twig

His play-thing was knocking about terribly under him, with her tiller flying madly to and fro just clear of his head, and solid lumps of water coming on board over his prostrate body.

The Rover 1923

At the ape-man's side swung his long grass rope -- the play-thing of yesterday, the weapon of today -- and as Taug charged the second time, Tarzan slipped the coils over his head and deftly shook out the sliding noose as he again nimbly eluded the ungainly beast.

Jungle Tales of Tarzan 1919