I know our Xanthe better than you, and she no more cares for her playfellow than the column on the right side of the hearth yearns toward the one on the left, though they have stood together under the same roof so long.
You should have thought only of doing what was right, and of leaving undone what was wrong, and not of what your playfellow Epimetheus would have said or believed.
Perceiving that Pandora was resolved to find out the secret, he determined that his playfellow should not be the only wise person in the cottage.
Truly, even without the passion of love, there had been much to shock and appal a young heart in the fate of the playfellow of her childhood, the suitor of her youth.
The seven conspirators were brought in, and Richard could hardly keep a rush of tears from his eyes at the sight of those fine, high-spirited young men, especially Antony Babington, the playfellow of his own children.
I know not which is truth and which is dreaming," said Cis, waking up through her tears, but resigning her hand to him, and letting him lift her to her seat on the old pony which had been the playfellow of both.
She was a well-loved playfellow evidently, for Tryphena and Tryphosa toddled towards her across the room at once, to be caught up in her arms and kissed.
She was very angry with her playfellow for his want of confidence, for his unfriendly reserve.
Rorie had been her playfellow and companion in his holiday-time for the last five years.
Had she ever thought that a time might come when he would be something more to her than playfellow and friend?
She was thinking of her oldplayfellow and friend, Rorie.
Across the huddled many-colored houses the ten-year-old Beatriz and her playfellow Fernao could see the western ocean in a great half-circle, bounded by the mysterious line above which three tiny caravels had just risen.
To find her friend and playfellow suddenly dropped away from her into the middle of a fairy-tale was rather terrifying, but it was also thrilling.
He might not have killed me as easily as he thought; but he met a still worse playfellow in you, for you killed him instead.
Bless my poor heart, Leonora, we were boy and girl together when we were in Florence, and were we to marry, I should always think him playfellow instead of husband.
Whatever be the true history of the myth, it is certainly Japanese; and the conception of Jizo as the lover and playfellow of dead children belongs to Japan.
Bosatsu survives in this atmosphere of magical Shinto: still by the roadside I see at long intervals the image of Jizo-Sama, the charming playfellow of dead children.
Would it not be wiser if she were to let the troublesome knot alone, and think no more about the box, but run and join her little playfellow and be happy?
Even the lake that was so friendly by day was a chilly and forbidding playfellow on the cool North Jersey nights.
Lad had countered this, by frisking away for another five or six feet, and then wheeling about to face once more his playfellow and to await the next move in the blithe gambol.
It is time the little playfellow went in, I think; and there is a very bright fire to tempt her: the red light shines out under the deepening gray of the sky.
And that queer white cur with the brown ear seems to be leaping and barking in ineffectual remonstrance with the wheel; perhaps he is jealous, because his playfellow in the beaver bonnet is so rapt in its movement.
A few days later the Duchess came again to Government House, bought a gay new hat for Greeba, and proposed that the little maid should go home with her as playfellow for her only child.
Come, kiss your little playfellow once more, and then farewell.
The timid Maria kept silence, but her little playfellow answered, that they had only come to see the chamber.
For Heathcliff persisted that he had no wish to make a disturbance, or to exasperate Mr. Linton, but merely to see his old playfellow again, to learn from her own lips how she was, and whether in anything he could serve her.
Sister was always his playfellow and companion whenever she could be spared from her father, and she had an ever-increasing influence over him which she did her best to raise into principle.
Then when she recognised the comrade and playfellow of her vision, she smiled a friendly and affectionate greeting.
I would wish to have him for a playfellow and pleasant acquaintance.
In his youth he had owned for his playfellow the ever witty, the precocious, the all-fascinating Lady Mary Wortley Montagu.
She was,' he wrote, 'a playfellow of mine when we were children.
She was little more than a child, but she became mistress as well as playfellow of the mad king.
The sculptor felt a cold chill, and his heart which had opened wide to his old playfellowshrank again within him.
It was for his elder playfellow and not for Arsinoe that Pollux had set his work in this place, but, just now, her gaze fell like a disturbing chill on his excited mood.
Yes, she stood vividly before him, a little fair-haired girl, the daughter of a neighbouring tradesman, his playfellow through many childish years.
I cannot tell you how glad I am to find my dear little playfellow once more.
I had only one playfellow that I cared at all for, and for the very reason that he was rather cross than kind to me; a youth different to the rest, but neither particularly handsome or lively, and one of the poorest.
The Duke of Buckingham, himself, was prouder to be her favourite playfellow than of all his conquests in the field of love.
Still Hamilton was the most congenial playfellow of them all.
