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  • “It seems no time ago that she was a little playward girl,” said young Timothy Tangs.

    The Woodlanders 2006

  • "It seems no time ago that she was a little playward girl," said young

    The Woodlanders Thomas Hardy 1884

  • The maid was a poor windling thing, and, though a playward piece o 'flesh when he married her, 'a socked and sighed, and went out like a snoff!

    Two on a Tower Thomas Hardy 1884

  • "I wouldn't live with him a week, so playward as he is, if I could get away."

    The Return of the Native 1878

  • The maid was a poor windling thing, and, though a playward piece o’ flesh when he married her, ‘a socked and sighed, and went out like a snoff!

    Two on a Tower 2006

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