The boy rose with the dew wet from the flowers upon his hair; he saw the dog, and at once began playfully to fondle it, and hold its little silken head between his hands; but as yet he had not caught sight of the Trevors.
Even the lady whose brother reviewed, possibly melted by hearing that her neighbour was a genius to whom much always is forgiven, smacked him playfully on the back as he got up to speak.
You're my little housekeeper," he told her playfullythe first evening, always loving to treat her as a child.
A clerical-looking and corpulent reprobate is receiving the upbraidings of his infuriated spouse, to whom the artist has playfully given some resemblance to a veritable dragon, with teeth, claws, and venom.
Abe used playfully to say, "Good stuff is mostly wrapped in small parcels.
An old man sat in an armchair by the fire, gazing on the three with an affectionate and gladdening eye, and playfully detaining a child of about four years old, who was struggling to escape to dear "papa"!
Oh, not that kind," said Dorothy, playfully motioning to her brother, for you see by this time she was quite cheerful again.
With these words, and taking an arm of each, she playfully led them from the room, out to the piazza, where they could see the glory of the western sky.
For a moment she playfully pretended to be unconscious of their gaze.
Liddy, as after her hearty "help yourselves," the brother and sister made a simultaneous dash at the pan on her ample lap, playfully contesting for the largest.
In the courtyard was a little donkey nursing its mother, rubbing up against her, shaking its long ears and playfully jumping around.
Long, flat strips of sand, superposed indefinitely in indistinct planes, ripple like shadows, and the wind playfully designs huge arabesques on their surfaces.
Though the pony cantered delightfully, he would make me keep him in a trot, saying playfully that the hammering sustained was good for me.
He came over to the piano and playfully edged her off the stool.
Benton playfully tweaked Katy John's ear and went whistling up the trail.
Lizzie, playfully smoothing the bright long fair hair which grew very luxuriant and beautiful on the head of the doll's dressmaker.
Tippins, letting down the window, playfully extols the vigilance of her cavalier in being in waiting there to hand her out.
Nothing short of force will make her go, Eugene had said; so, Bella had playfully forced her.
As the train pulled out, the marshal turned and all but glanced up when the brakeman, swinging to the steps of the smoker, reached out and playfully slapped him on the shoulder.
The kitten Beelzebub, prowling round the table and rubbing against the men's legs, jumped playfully to Harrigan's shoulder.
Beelzebub advanced cautiously, lifted a rounded paw, andplayfully touched the dog's nose.
Many of her relatives were loyalists; and she was playfully called among them "the little black-eyed rebel.
She playfully chucked Kate under her chin, and asked her "to go on," but the searching was not so spontaneous as before, and in the spontaneity of study lies the acquisition of knowledge.
And repelling weapons with weapons, those two bulls of the Bharata race, both endued with great might, fought on playfully and infatuated the eyes of all created beings.
He protested playfully against her decision until a certain lifting of Mrs. Ogilvie's eyebrows made his desire for her presence sound importunate, and put an end to his hospitable pleadings.
There was a funny pair of spectacles on the mantelshelf, which Canon Wrottesley would playfully place upon his handsome nose, and to small visitors he would accompany the action by a frolicsome 'wowf-wowf.
Donna Dolores, somewhat gravely, as she playfully tapped Mrs. Sepulvida's fair cheek with her fan.
Full of fun and spirits, it would sport about as playfully as a kitten; and it was very amusing to see how it would tease the dogs, pulling them about with its sharp claws, and trying to roll them over on the ground.
Before we have turned the first headland we perceive them playfully biting each other about the ears and neck: and now Nero scampers off under the trees in the direction of the house, and Jezebel (type of her sex!
He took Trade-Unionists, Home-Rulers, and Dissenters playfully and held them up to kindly ridicule.
Before testing the strength of our forces let there be a short truce, on condition that His Excellency will give us the desired information this evening," said Mr. Trevelyan, playfully endeavouring to conciliate Miss Douglas.
Charles Douglas, playfully pulling back the clustering ringlets from his sister's white forehead, "poetry and politics cannot exist on very intimate terms of friendship, at least too much poetry.
At that moment Maude Bereford arose and playfully approached the door wherein stood the future Lord Bereford, the heir of Bereford Castle.
Many times had she kissed the lips of her royal patron, while he playfully designated her his "White Rose of England.
The young gentleman smiled, as if to intimate that the latter fragments of discourse were playfully ironical; and finished the beer as he did so.
Nay, positively you shall not,' said I, playfully laying my hand upon his mouth.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "playfully" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
