Lexicographical Neighbors of Playfulnesses
Literary usage of Playfulnesses
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1868)
"... his dominions to choose their little playfulnesses from the records of pagan
mythology. Jupiter, but not James; Bacchus, but not Benedict, is his motto. ..."
2. Aspects and Impressions by Edmund Gosse (1922)
"Here the charm of Butler's style is expended, with a thousand oddities and
playfulnesses, on subjects which blossom in its atmosphere. ..."
3. The Life and Correspondence of Thomas Arnold, D. D.: Late Head-master of by Arthur Penrhyn Stanley (1910)
"... of the domestic playfulnesses,— the humorous details, inverse or prose, of
travelling adventures, — the very jolts of the carriage, and difficulties of ..."
4. The Gentleman's Magazine (1894)
"These Jacobin playfulnesses were scarcely the result of "suspicion,"
whether "preternatural " or other : they were the deeds of men and women who were ..."
5. Selections and Essays by John Ruskin (1918)
"... and had many customs and playfulnesses which were blunt and rude; and they
dressed themselves and their wives with coarse cloth; many wore merely skins, ..."
6. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1868)
"... his dominions to choose their little playfulnesses from the records of pagan
mythology. Jupiter, but not James; Bacchus, but not Benedict, is his motto. ..."
7. Aspects and Impressions by Edmund Gosse (1922)
"Here the charm of Butler's style is expended, with a thousand oddities and
playfulnesses, on subjects which blossom in its atmosphere. ..."
8. The Life and Correspondence of Thomas Arnold, D. D.: Late Head-master of by Arthur Penrhyn Stanley (1910)
"... of the domestic playfulnesses,— the humorous details, inverse or prose, of
travelling adventures, — the very jolts of the carriage, and difficulties of ..."
9. The Gentleman's Magazine (1894)
"These Jacobin playfulnesses were scarcely the result of "suspicion,"
whether "preternatural " or other : they were the deeds of men and women who were ..."
10. Selections and Essays by John Ruskin (1918)
"... and had many customs and playfulnesses which were blunt and rude; and they
dressed themselves and their wives with coarse cloth; many wore merely skins, ..."
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