toyes

Lets just takeaway all of the expensive homes and car toyes from the welthy.

Conservative Democrat gets The Last Word 2009

Now passing from these courtly trifles, let vs talke of our scholastical toyes, that is of the Grammaticall versifying of the Greeks and Latines and see whether it might be reduced into our English arte or no.

The Arte of English Poesie George Puttenham

Now passing from these courtly trifles, let vs talke of our scholastical toyes, that is of the Grammaticall versifying of the Greeks and Latines and see whether it might be reduced into our English arte or no.

The Arte of English Poesie 1569

We have outgrown the "toyes with which we played as children," there is now "no desire or moving thereunto, because we have found better things for our minds"; so, too, "all those things in which men, even to old age, so much delight" would seem like "toyes" if they once discovered the true Light

Spiritual Reformers in the 16th & 17th Centuries Rufus Matthew Jones 1905

We cannot turn from baubles and "toyes" and our "desire for that which is high in the world" until a Light from some source plainly shows us an eternal reality for which we may "highly adventure the tryal."

Spiritual Reformers in the 16th & 17th Centuries Rufus Matthew Jones 1905

Here, for example, is a transcript from the section on "Women": As Pigeons are taken with beanes, and children intised with Balles:so women are wonne with toyes.

Shakespeare Authorship, Part Two: Class Issues and Conspiracy Theories Bardiac 2008

Here, for example, is a transcript from the section on "Women": As Pigeons are taken with beanes, and children intised with Balles:so women are wonne with toyes.

Archive 2008-07-01 Bardiac 2008

There we may think and pray before death stops our breath; other joyes are but toyes and to be lamented.

The Compleat Angler 2007

Other joyes are but toyes, only this lawful is, for our skil breeds no ill, but content and pleasure.

The Compleat Angler 2007

Sicurano seeing him smile, suspected least himselfe had (by some unfitting behaviour) beene the occasion thereof: and therefore, with a more setled countenance, hee said: Perhaps thou smilest, because I that am a man, professing Armes, should question after such womanish toyes.

The Decameron 2004