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Sentences starting with play

Play it, mind; no tuning-up sort of thing, like last Sunday's performance. [11]
Play him, sir; let him run a bit. [9]
Play up the feet of the army. [11]
Play of mutual affinities. [6]

Sentences ending with play

Fifteen years ago you came to see my father, and now you have come to see me--all in the light o' the moon, as it were; like a villain in a play. [11]
Men are shy with each other where their emotions are in play. [11]
Nebsecht looked on with astonishment at this pretty play. [10]
His latest opera, which has not yet been produced, is founded on the Niebelungen Lied, and will take three evenings in the representation, which is almost as bad as a Chinese play. [4]
One day, however, when Medallion was selling the furniture of a house, he put up a feather bed, and, as was his custom-- for he was a whimsical fellow--let his humour have play. [11]
I knew boldness was the safe part to play. [11]
His favorite place was on the brightest spot of a Smyrna rug by the conservatory, where the sunlight fell and he could hear the fountain play. [4]
Young Aleck's face was flushed with bad liquor and the worse excitement of play. [11]
But when they was both on, then the band begun to play. [11]
Amid the pleasant tumult the three entered the hotel together, like people in a play. [11]

Short sentences using play

You play with words so. [11]
You must play the game. [11]
Can you play the accompaniment? [11]
The play was the "Gladiator. [5]
He would play straight. [11]
Fair play all round! [5]
It is settled--I play Peitho. [10]
I go to play chuck-farthing. [11]
The Play is over. [6]
The play was over. [4]

Sentences containing play two or more times

At Easter-time there was to be the great Passion Play, after the manner of that known as The Passion Play of Ober-Ammergau. [11]
He was going to play to the masterful Gorgio, and he would play as he had never played before. [11]
The matter came to nothing, of course, but the fact that Daly should have thought a story built from an old discarded play had a play in it seems interesting. [5]
It is charitable to believe that they do not seriously contemplate or truly understand the meaning of the words they use, but rather play with them, as certain so-called "learned" quadrupeds play with the printed characters set before them. [6]
Do you know they play the part in the household which the king's jester, who very often had a mighty long head under his cap and bells, used to play for a monarch? [6]
Human chemicals--you can't play with human chemicals any more than you can play with real ones--you've got to know something about chemistry. [9]
Let every one play the part he can play best,--some speak, some sing, and all "holler. [7]
It was going on finely; it would play with the doll my Aunt had given it in happy pastime, and now I did the little one's bidding and was right glad to be her play fellow for a while. [10]
But there is no doubt he should be warned--fair play, fair play! [11]
To play with life, that is not much; but to play with a soul is more than a thousand lives. [11]

More example sentences with the word play in them

Trying to play yourself for a stranger and an innocent!--why, I knew you before you had spoken seven words; and I made up my mind to find out what was your little game. [5]
I come under your windows, some fine spring morning, and play you one of my adagio movements, and some of you say,--This is good,--play us so always. [6]
I shall await your most gracious permission here in hospital, that I may not have to play the part of a secretary rather than commander in the army. [2]
But to play you, the greatest gambler in the West, for two thousand dollars-- yes, I'd like the sting of it again. [11]
I drink with you, I play with you--'bien! [11]
The madder pranks you play, the better. [10]
He says: "Don't you play nothing on me, because I wouldn't on you. [5]
It is probable you left some obscure comrade at a tavern, or in the farms, with right mother-wit, and equality to life, when you crossed sea and land to play bo-peep with celebrated scribes. [6]
It is four years ago, shortly before your wedding with Mena; my father called me to play draughts. [10]
In February, Howells wrote: "If you have got any comfort in regard to our play I wish you would heave it into my bosom. [5]
Perhaps, however, he would have hesitated to carry his purposes to immediate conclusions, were it not that the very gods seemed to play his game with him. [11]
Of course he won't be able to play polo, or take much active exercise. [9]
You can't play with yourself here as you can on the high veld, where an hour or two of sleep a day will do. [11]
He sit there with us, and play on the fiddle, and sing songs, and act plays, and help Florian in the barn, and Octave to mend the fence, and the Cure to fix the grape- vines on his wall. [11]
Freedom is lost with too much responsibility and seriousness, and the truth is more likely to be struck out in a lively play of assertion and retort than when all the words and sentiments are weighed. [4]
Here at noon, with parade of infantry, comes a military band to play for half an hour; and there are always plenty of idlers to listen to them. [4]
Tom staked him with marbles to play "keeps" with, and then took all the winnings away from him. [5]
You and I will play together, against both the lambs, Richard. [9]
Something's needed that will play our game and turn the tables on the reptile too. [11]
You don't understand why I couldn't play as big a part as your father-- I couldn't. [11]
Please tell me, who taught her to play with it? [6]
The hostess succeeds who is able to excite this general play of all the forces at the table, even using the silent but not non-elastic material as cushions, if one may continue the figure. [4]
One of us who had seen a play during the vacation at home told the others the plot. [10]
In a letter which Mark Twain wrote to his brother Orion at this period we get the first hint of a venture which was to play an increasingly important part in the Hartford home and fortunes during the next ten or a dozen years. [5]
He added that, when his patience was at an end, he should positively insist on its surrender and bring every means at his disposal into play to procure it. [10]
Now take the wheel and finish the watch; and next time play fair, and you won't have to work your passage. [5]
I wondered, too, what part I should play in the development of the comedy, tragedy, or whatever it was to be. [11]
He always knew what everybody thought--that he would never do anything but play cricket till he got too heavy to run, and then would sink into a slothful, fat, and useless middle and old age; that his life would be a failure. [11]
His artistic faculties were once more roused into play, and found a field for their freest exercise when Antinous told him that he was at his disposal till mid-day, since his master--or rather Caesar as he was now permitted to name him--was engaged in business. [10]
Daly and Clemens were old friends, and it would seem that Daly could hardly have escaped seeing the play when it was going the rounds. [5]
Now if it were a play, it would be different. [8]
Then the word went through the valley and the hills, that one evening he would play for all who came; and that day was "Toussaint," or the Feast of All Souls. [11]
He colored; she went on boldly, and with eager play of gesture. [10]
I like very well to talk with gentlemen that play with my branch of entomology; I do not doubt it amused you, and if you want to see anything I can show you, I shall have no scruple in letting you see it. [6]
Zum Beispiel, suppose we wish to adjust the play to the French tongue. [5]
By and by we perceived what those super-delicate colors, and their continuous play and movement, reminded us of; it is what one sees in a soap-bubble that is drifting along, catching changes of tint from the objects it passes. [5]
I have my way of thinking, you have yours; thus we each know what the other means; but after the tragedy comes the satyr play, and we may as well finish this agitating evening with an hour's friendly chat. [10]
In Brooklyn, Baltimore, Washington, Cincinnati, St. Louis and Chicago, the play paid me an average of nine hundred dollars a week. [5]
The play yesterday was worth a thousand sermons. [11]
His first effort was to get an upper clerkship in one of the departments, where his Oxford education could come into play and do him service. [5]
But while she was still searching hastily for another he returned the first, saying: "I understand only too well your reluctance to allow such confidential effusions to play the part of defender. [10]
At first he was silent and embarrassed, but Henrica gave him no rest, and when he had once begun to answer her questions he was soon carried away by her glowing vivacity, and gave free, joyous play to his wit. [10]
When the play was over she was immediately surrounded by enthusiastic admirers eager to congratulate her, to dance with her. [9]
Katharina's whole being was in wild revolt; she did not know how she was able to return Heliodora's greeting, and to ask her how she could possibly play the lute with a headache. [10]
All this play was in Dicky's hands for himself to enjoy, in a perfect dress rehearsal ere ever one of the Cairene public or the English world could pay for admission and take their seats. [11]
You know I was going to send you that detective play, so that you could re-write it. [5]
And now he was going out of this young life, and the summers and winters would come and go, and we others would rove and play as before, but his place would be vacant; we should see him no more. [5]
When the play was done, a youth in his shirt-sleeves started around with a small copper saucer to make a collection. [5]
In vain he was asked to play cards. [11]
Once, when I was an underpaid reporter in Virginia City, whenever I wished to play billiards I went out to look for an easy mark. [5]
It's you that wants to play fast and loose with him. [8]
Beaton knew she wanted to talk with him about something else; but he waited patiently to let her play her comedy out. [8]
The play is vulgar melodrama, out of which has escaped altogether the refinement and the romantic idealism of the stirring romance of Dumas. [4]
Then look at Virginie Morrissette, that put her brother's eyes out quarrelling--she's to play Mary Magdalene. [11]
There is a very loose primary law in this State, purposely kept loose by the politicians of the Northeastern Railroads, in order that they may play such tricks on decent men as they have been playing on me. [9]
Poor Boges will very gladly play the go-between; the poor despised Boges wishes you so well--the humble Boges will be so sorry when he sees the proud palm-tree from Sais cut down. [10]
The time go ver' fast, and my breath catch in my throat to see how great the stakes they play for. [11]
There are many venerable pianos in Hamilton, and they all play at twilight. [5]
There was a vast crowd in the public grounds that night to hear the band play the "Fremersberg. [5]
If you haven't used Orion or Old Wakeman, don't you think you and I can get together and grind out a play with one of those fellows in it? [5]
Active and long-continued use cannot here have come into play, as in the case of the vocal organs. [1]
They were feeling us, you see; they wanted to know if we were going to play that red terror on them again. [5]
The moment came upon them sooner than the text of the play warranted. [11]
He shines most upon such small expeditions as the exploration of the Chesapeake; then his energy, self-confidence, shrewdness, inventiveness, had free play, and his pluck and perseverance are recognized as of the true heroic substance. [4]
I was shut up in my quarters with a bronchial cough, and glad to have something fresh to look at, something new to play with. [5]
Here was an unusual man, who ignored the conventional preliminary nothings, beating down the grass before the play, as it were. [11]
His breathing was unnaturally heavy, Jen thought, but, no suspicion of foul play came to her mind yet. [11]
But you, you understood that; and you were in, you said to yourself, and you'd play the game out, come what would. [11]
One evening, when Uncle Tom had gone to play piquet with Mr. Isham, who was ill, Honora further surprised her aunt by exclaiming: "How can you talk of things other people have and not want them, Aunt Mary? [9]
My spirits rose unaccountably, and I felt as though it were a fete night, and the day's duty over, the hour of play was come. [11]
She reads in two hours and 20 minutes and will play not longer than 2 3/4 hours. [5]
I would sooner twenty times have a profligate like my Lord Sandwich for a parent than a milk and water sop like Manners, who will risk nothing over a crown piece at play or a guinea at Newmarket. [9]
But Lali was trying to think it out, not only to feel, and she did not count that subterranean force which must play its part in this new situation in her drama of life. [11]
Is there any trick that love and their own fancies do not play them? [6]
In Blethisa the transverse ridges on the furrowed border of the abdominal segment do not, as far as I could judge, come into play in scraping the rasps on the elytra. [1]
She took risks, too, but she didn't play a game; she only wanted to do things well. [11]
The book was Tom Sawyer, as already mentioned, and the play a dramatization from The Gilded Age. [5]
Life, we are told, is full of incompletion, of broken destinies, of failures, of romances that begin but do not end, of ambitions and purposes frustrated, of love crossed, of unhappy issues, or a resultless play of influences. [4]
Even insects play together, as has been described by that excellent observer, P. Huber (7. [1]
He would have to use, not duplicity, but diplomacy, to play a kind of game; but this other side to his life, the side of love and home, should be simple, direct--all genuine and strong and true. [11]
Berry, however, said to the still absorbed musician: "Where did you learn to play? [11]
He had gone to the Palace that morning as Colonel Cumner had commanded, that he might receive the thanks of the Dakoon for the people of Mandakan; but he had tired of the great place, and had come back to play at chuck-farthing. [11]
Then she went to the little piano in the corner where stood the statue of Andromeda, and began to play softly. [11]
When we wished to talk with her we had to sit beside her; and if we kept still she would question us searchingly about everything--our play, our friends, our school. [10]
Philip had begun to see that the life around him had elements enough of the comic and the tragic to give full play to all his powers. [4]
He had been to see a rural American play, an exhibition of country life and character, constructed in absolute disregard of any traditions of the stage. [4]
It was necessary to recuperate, and the anxiety for a profitable play, or some other adventure that would bring a quick and generous return, grew out of this need. [5]
He did everything to put himself in the way of conviction, was constant at the evening meetings, wore a grave face, refrained from play, and tried to feel anxious. [4]
They never come to play with us, or talk to us. [12]
He had decided to play until that score reached forty-three thousand. [2]
What mysterious right to play tyrant is conferred on a district of country, with its people, by merely calling it a State? [7]
Vulgar chess-players have to play their game out; nothing short of the brutality of an actual checkmate satisfies their dull apprehensions. [6]
For that woman to play the part is to destroy the impersonality of the scene. [11]
The Khedive loved to play one man off against another, and the death of Sadik or the death of Dicky would have given him no pain, if either seemed necessary. [11]
Ludo was learning to play on the piano, but I had chosen another instrument. [10]
You're not trying to play on my--my superstition,--at a time like this! [9]
I should like to play now. [11]
I was quick to play my trump card. [9]
But you got to play music to them. [5]
You got anything to play music on? [5]

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