The value of a plaything does not consist in itself, but in the pleasure it awakens in your mind.
Now, I suppose you understand what I said, that the value of the plaything consists in the pleasure it can awaken in the mind.
In the home she is truly loved, often the pet and playthingof the household, though not receiving the caresses and words of endearment that children in America expect as a right, for love in Japan is undemonstrative.
Our little girl's place in the family is a pleasant one: she is the pet and plaything of father and elder brothers, and she is never saluted by any one in the family, except her parents, without the title of respect due to her position.
He is a high and noble gentleman, and wants no man's cast-off plaything for his wife.
Her father, an idle, willful, careless creature, made a show plaything of her, and spent his earnings for her gratification and adornment.
She was so pretty as a little girl, her mother tells me, as to attract constant attention; and I rather infer that the father and mother both made a pet and plaything of her, and were unboundedly indulgent.
It dissolves it into its elements, takes from it here, adds to it there, makes it the plaything of free fancy.
I feel as if I had been listening in a dream to the story of an unfortunate wretch, the plaything of evil powers, who have driven him hither and thither, and urged him on from crime to crime.
For long hours the "Caldera" remained the plaything of this fearful wind.
The flicker of animation which she had presented on meeting Agnes had died down, and she was again the sport of man and the plaything of fate.
Nearly a year ago, when Jack was first missing, she seemed to have lived through all these emotions, to have been tossed backwards and forwards in her dreams like a plaything of the gods at sport.
As we may well believe from the tenderness with which it is treated, the Japanese doll is not simply a plaything but a means of teaching a girl to be a good wife and mother.
He devoted all his hours to toy-making, and when one plaything had been completed he stood it on a shelf he had built for that purpose.
This time he followed another road, into a different part of the country, and carried happiness to many children who never before had owned a toy or guessed that such a delightful plaything existed.
The little one smiled, as if it dreamed of the pretty plaything it was to find on the morrow, and Claus crept softly from the room and entered at the other doorway.
Suddenly she perceived the strange profile in the air, and thought herself the plaything of a fantastic vision; she started back in her amazement with a gesture of surprise, almost of fear.
The expression is therefore not exaggerated: our planet is but the plaything of the cosmic forces which accompany it in the meadows of the sky, and it is the same with everything existing in the universe.
With his reputation for sagacity, for far-sightedness and the clever extrication of others, he, who stood for proprietary interests, to become the plaything of that Law of which he was a pillar!
Holly had not as yet an eye for the relative appearance of him who was her plaything and her god.
She missed but one thing, and that was her pet plaything which she used to carry to bed with her at night.
A toy for five minutes, a plaything sought out of mere contradiction, and destined to be cast aside ere the day was done!
No golden and jeweled playthingever tempted a starving man to theft as this tempted him now to break the pledge he had just given.
The plaything stage came to an end when I was here with you before we went to Paris, four years ago.
For years you were to me a delicious plaything; but a plaything with a mysterious soul, after which I felt, every now and again, in worship and awe.
She is like a pretty fresh playthingto him, and they go about together just like big Towzer and little Frisk at home.
The name of wife doesn't cover the shame of the plaything of passion.
This became a very popular plaything in the nursery, and for once the inventor received due praise, on account of its keeping the children so quiet.
The doctor was hastily brought, the child relieved with a great deal of difficulty, the dangerous plaything burned, and poor Henry sent to coventry for an unlimited time.
He has hisplaything with him," said Sabina, and her thin lips curled with an expression of bitter contempt.
One must dive to obtain what lies at the bottom of the water--all that floats on the surface is borne by the waves, a plaything for children.
Man is only the plaything of circumstances; he can never do what he has projected.
Really, I am the plaything of ill luck," he said, with a toss of the head.
The plaything gone, at evening hour She sat on uncle's knee.
Again the ice was in her hand, Her plaything for the day, When all at once she cried aloud, "The stone is running away.
She would sometimes catch my foot in her paws as a kitten catches a ball, and try to make a plaything of it,--yet always without thrusting out her claws.
But Nip held Archie's Christmas plaything in his mouth, and you know a dog can't even bark when he has anything in his mouth.
And, besides, it rained so hard when the colored boy went back from the store, after putting the Elephant on the board, that Jeff had to go home another way, and he forgot all about the stuffed plaything he had set aside.
