plaything

• “I could call him a lackey, but the term plaything is even more impersonal.”

  JULIO SCHERER GARCIA INTERVIEW WITH CASTRO

• “I should be Don John of Austria's wife to-day -- and then, then his 'toy,' his 'plaything' -- yes, and his slave and his servant -- what you will!”

  In the Palace of the King A Love Story of Old Madrid

• “He said court rules and proceedings as well as the dignity of the court could not be turned into a "plaything" simply to be used by political parties.”

  ANC Daily News Briefing

• “Darwinism, which seemed so important to his fellows, was only the same kind of plaything of the mind as the creation in six days.”

  Resurrection

• “The three spent an hour discussing the new "plaything," as Mr. Norwood insisted upon calling it.”

  The Campfire Girls of Roselawn Or, a Strange Message from the Air

• “The Piazza itself, (which is situated in the centre of the city, just beyond the Pantheon,) and all the adjacent streets, are lined with booths covered with every kind of plaything for children.”

  The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 27, January, 1860

• “Nobody cares much for that kind of plaything at close range.”

  Wild Wings A Romance of Youth

• “But the being cherished as a kind of plaything in my room, and the consciousness that this accomplishment of mine was bruited about among the boys, and attracted a good deal of notice to me though I was the youngest there, stimulated me to exertion.”

  VII. My “First Half” at Salem House

• “The word, "plaything," was almost the only word they could understand.”

  The Art of the Story-Teller

• “The telephone had now become a kind of plaything, and Hillard often found him in front of it, patiently waiting for the bell to ring.”

  The Lure of the Mask

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