With the movement for women's University education, which has always been to the front in St. Andrews, he was sympathetic, although it was not a matter in which he played any special part.
All were practically on the same level in the University circle, and St. Andrews was not invaded by so large an army of golfing visitors then as now, though the game of course was played with equal keenness and enthusiasm.
He saw the part he had played in bringing the real significance of Absolute Idealism into view, and deprecated the representation of his system made by David Hume, or the popular idea that Berkeley denied all reality to matter.
Perhaps we might try to picture to ourselves the life in which Ferrier played so prominent a part in the only real University town of which Scotland can boast.
He knew so many dealers, but he knew, too, that the war had played the devil with them as with everyone else.
Bruce had learned that Sloane played polo, owned and drove a racing car and was well liked in his several clubs.
She herself played with them by the hour, while the ache in her head was a torment.
How many hundreds of games, he thought, Edith must have played with him in the long years when his spirit was dead, for her now to take such chances.
But they had playedonly a short time when Deborah's latchkey was heard in the door.
Now they were suddenly tense again and watching the screen in absorbed suspense, while the crude passions within themselves were played upon in the glamorous dark.
In the meantime, in this interplay, these shifting lights and shadows which played upon the history of the life of Roger's home, there came to him a diversion from an unexpected source.
Great ambitions thwarted by the sordid details of poverty are never a pleasant subject of contemplation; and there have been few monarchs in whose lives they have played a more prominent part.
Still powerless by himself, Maximilian was more than ever dependent on the French, and played a somewhat subordinate part in the operations of Louis against the Venetians.
The incapable old Duke had in later life fallen {27} completely under the power of his mistresses, who played upon his superstitions by incantations and witch-processes, and who squandered the revenues on their own worthless ends.
Frederick had been chosen Emperor mainly for his insignificance, but it was felt that he had played the part of a nonentity only too well.
She played far from badly on the piano; she spoke French in boarding-school fashion; she was given to enthusiasm, and still more addicted to melancholy, and even to tears.
Arátoff wanted to find out what part she had played that last time, but for some reason or other he asked something else.
Toward evening Arátoff quieted down to such a degree that he played several games of trumps with his aunt.
She took a phial of poison with her to the theatre, drank it before the first act, and in that condition played through the whole of that act.
But at that moment, from the direction of the pavilion, strong sounds were wafted to them--and both Fabio and Valeria recognised the melody which Muzio had played to them, calling it the Song of Love Triumphant.
On the whole, I slept a great deal, and dreams played a prominent part in my life; I beheld visions almost every night.
In the evening he played cards with her and went off to his own room in a somewhat sad but fairly tranquil state of mind.
Then," pursued Muzio, "I woke up and played that song.
She played the things of Greig that I played to Antony on the evening at Dane Mount.
Mercifully, the decent people and some of the men played bridge, and were soon engaged at one or two tables.
Only go into the city, and that is quite played out now.
Echos, and reflections in water and in polished surfaces may have played a subsidiary role in establishing, or confirming, the belief in ghosts and in spirits.
The decisive role played by language appears forcibly when one considers the part it takes in introducing dream experiences into waking life.
I have had occasion in a preceding section to quote Howitt with regard to the slight role played by Religion among the South-East Australians.
Then it dawned upon our hunter that Reynard had played the possum-game on him, getting away with a whole skin and a good dinner.
Not content with this, they played with them all night; pulled them around the clearing, as threads here and there plainly showed; then dragged them away into the underbrush and left them.
She snapped her fingers, swayed her lithe body, and undulated gracefully to the piano, where she brought both hands down on the keys with a crash, and played ragtime with feverish fury for five minutes.
He hadn't felt like that since the Aurora Stock Company had played "East Lynne" in the Port Agnew Opera House.
The Laird led trumps, but Nellie McKaye revoked and played a little deuce?
She played the game in an absolutely ripping manner!
The worst that could possibly be said of Nan was that she played in mighty hard luck.
Then, as no one could be persuaded to sing, they played at cards and the conversation dropped to more commonplace themes.
The ordinary subjects of conversation exhausted, they played cards: quatre-sept and boeuf; then Eutrope looked at his big silver watch and said that it was time to be going.
The ugly looks and ugly weapons I saw around me were fine incentives to caution; and no Italian, I flatter myself, could have played his part more nicely than I did.
She had played her part grimly; had taken her defeat in silence, if with tears; had tried neither prayer, nor defence, nor apology.
You have played a bold part, and a clever one, and I congratulate you!
If he afterwards learn that you have played him a trick," he said, "will he not punish you?
You are right, since you have played this trick on me.
Hunger pricked him, and the meanness of the part he had played moved him to action.
She could not understand a man who played fast and loose at such a time.
The soft summer air played on the meal laid under the willows as it had played on the meal of yesterday laid under the chestnut-trees.
Foucauld, with whom his Majesty played to-night, hand to hand and face to face--Foucauld is dead!
The same Raggedy Ann with which my mother played when a child.
So Boots, the happy little creature, played with the penny dolls, scraping them over the floor and peeping out from behind chairs and pouncing upon them as if they were mice and the penny dolls enjoyed it hugely.
One day when Marcella was up in the attic and had played with the old spinning wheel until she had grown tired of it, she curled up on an old horse-hair sofa to rest.
Marcella watched the sewing while Grandma told how she had played with Raggedy Ann when she was a little girl.
Nevertheless the Professor, with his eyes still upon her, played softly on, played until Mrs. Ashton noiselessly entered the room.
Why should Donna so often appear with a single white rose pinned to her dress or take to playing the same tunes on the piano that the Professor played on his violin, particularly when she was an exceedingly poor pianist?
He had played with them many times in the years gone by; but always he replaced them carefully in the bag, and the bag in the cupboard, upon the very shelf where first he had discovered it.
About her romped and played two little balls of fur, but her eyes were for one which lay between her great forepaws and did not romp, one who never would romp again.
As Tarzan worked, Gazan, Teeka's little balu, played about him while Teeka sought food upon the opposite side of the clearing.
The part he had played in the pageants, during his long tour, had not been of his own seeking.
Games were played in which the English were represented contending with the Spaniards; and in one of these an unlucky urchin, who played the part of Philip, narrowly escaped with his life from the hands of his exasperated comrades.
Philip was attended by the principal persons of his suite, of both sexes; and as the procession, making a goodly show, passed through the streets on foot, the minstrelsy played before them till they reached the royal residence.
The siege lasted twenty-two days, during fourteen of which the guns from the four batteries of the French had played incessantly on the beleaguered city.
The year 1570 may be regarded as the period of the last auto da fe in which the Lutherans played a conspicuous part.
Another battery, much more formidable from the number and size of the pieces, was raised on an eminence to the south of St. Elmo, and played both upon that fort and upon the castle of St. Angelo.
Then we come to the Popish plots and the brutalities of Scroggs and Jeffreys, when the jury played a leading part, though often perverted by popular or judicial influence, and without any sound theory of evidence.
In the dark and bewildering game of life he played his part with unfaltering courage and magnanimity.
Emerging into the period of the Tudors and the early Stuarts, he comes to trials full of historic interest; to the dramatic scenes in which Sir Thomas More, and Throckmorton, and Raleigh played their parts.
It is a base feeling, I suppose, but I cannot help feeling that to have had such gifts and played such a part in life would be a blessing and a delight greater than any other I can think of.
And so, when speaking of the part played by coercion in religious developments, he says that 'the sources of religion lie hid from us.
Two or three bands played the Dead March the whole way, till I felt as if it would never get out of my ears.
He has no previous knowledge of the fact; he has had nothing to do with any investigations, and his whole duty is to see that the game is played fairly between the ligitants according to certain established rules.
He became more sociable, played cricket, improved in health, and came home with the highest of characters as being the best and most promising boy in the school.
Hence the special necessity in India of reducing the laws to the clearest and most explicit shape possible, or, in other words, for the codifying process in which he had played his part.
Let it be played as well, Philip, even to the finish--even to the last ditch!
He counts on seeing those who have played the part of friends to him shot down, and even though their blood will be upon his head, he is well pleased.
Should, however, it be discovered that you played us false in the slightest detail, it will be the same as if our promise had not been given, and you will be turned over to Colonel Clarke's men.
Thus he stood, one foot on the slippery log siding of the dock, watching while the little drama played itself out, so far as his present knowledge could go.
But Agatha was speechless at her growing wonder at the trick fate hadplayed them.
Now there are large numbers of crateriform mountains on our globe in the formation of which water has played an important, indeed essential, part.
It is evident that water played an important part in these phenomena, though not as the prime mover;--any more than water in the boiler of a locomotive is the prime mover in the generation of the steam.
The Chancas watched me, wondering what game I played who was not wont to fight in this fashion, and I also wondered, who still knew not what to do.
Doubtless, I thought, it must be because his honour had been touched on the matter of the trick that had been played upon him without his knowledge.
So the Portuguese, as we shall see, played important parts on both sides of the great war that followed.
When they played their own rude music it was vastly better.
Outside the building was prepared the funeral pile, and at some distance off a platform was erected for the accommodation of a band of musicians, who played upon different instruments of the country.
Music is played during the ceremony, which is performed by the nearest relatives; and congratulations are addressed, with gifts of silver, to the newly shorn.
Whenever it is written--and I hope it will be--the part that the Yankee teachers played in the education of the Negroes immediately after the war will make one of the most thrilling parts of the history off this country.
Some of the slaves had nursed "Mars' Billy"; others had played with him when he was a child.
Gilmore's Band playedthe "Star-Spangled Banner," and the audience cheered.
Your fellows played a bold game in trying to dislodge us.
Your Majesty stung me to the heart," said the contrabandista, "in thinking that I played a coward's part in not rescuing those two lads.
The children played together with a kid which had attached itself to Zorilda, and lay cropping the stray sprigs of her flowery couch while she slept.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "played" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
