Lexicographical Neighbors of Playless
Literary usage of Playless
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Mind and Its Education by George Herbert Betts (1916)
"We need but follow the children, who have had a playless childhood, into a narrow
and barren manhood. We need but to trace back the history of the dull and ..."
2. Rural Child Welfare: An Inquiry by the National Child Labor Committee, Based by National Child Labor Committee (U.S.), Edward Nicholas Clopper (1922)
"There is still another playless community where ... In several remote and playless
communities we learned of a startling number of illegitimate births to ..."
3. Christianity and Amusements by Richard Henry Edwards (1915)
"Whatever one does for the pure love of it—that is play. It is more instinctive
than work, and not a whit less important. A playless continent would be no ..."
4. The Rime of the Ancient Mariner by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Carleton Eldredge Noyes (1900)
"From eight to fourteen I was a playless \day dreamer . . . my whole being was,
with eyes closed to every object of present sense, to crumple myself up in a ..."
5. Education by Project Innovation (Organization) (1909)
"I know few passages in English biography that impress one more painfully than
the picture John Stuart Mill gives of his playless childhood. ..."
6. The Social Welfare Forum: Official Proceedings ... Annual Forum by National Conference on Social Welfare, American Social Science Association, Conference of Charities (U.S., Conference of Charities (U.S.), National Conference of Social Work (U.S. (1919)
"... illiteracy and playless leisure have been most keenly felt, some by one group
of people and some by another. Second: As soon as each group got really ..."
7. The Mind and Its Education by George Herbert Betts (1916)
"We need but follow the children, who have had a playless childhood, into a narrow
and barren manhood. We need but to trace back the history of the dull and ..."
8. Rural Child Welfare: An Inquiry by the National Child Labor Committee, Based by National Child Labor Committee (U.S.), Edward Nicholas Clopper (1922)
"There is still another playless community where ... In several remote and playless
communities we learned of a startling number of illegitimate births to ..."
9. Christianity and Amusements by Richard Henry Edwards (1915)
"Whatever one does for the pure love of it—that is play. It is more instinctive
than work, and not a whit less important. A playless continent would be no ..."
10. The Rime of the Ancient Mariner by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Carleton Eldredge Noyes (1900)
"From eight to fourteen I was a playless \day dreamer . . . my whole being was,
with eyes closed to every object of present sense, to crumple myself up in a ..."
11. Education by Project Innovation (Organization) (1909)
"I know few passages in English biography that impress one more painfully than
the picture John Stuart Mill gives of his playless childhood. ..."
12. The Social Welfare Forum: Official Proceedings ... Annual Forum by National Conference on Social Welfare, American Social Science Association, Conference of Charities (U.S., Conference of Charities (U.S.), National Conference of Social Work (U.S. (1919)
"... illiteracy and playless leisure have been most keenly felt, some by one group
of people and some by another. Second: As soon as each group got really ..."
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