Austria, though she had lately fallen to a somewhat treasonable toying with heathens and heretics of Turkey and Prussia, still retained something of the old Catholic comfort for the soul.
Toying with the petition and speaking his thoughts aloud, he ran on: “But Major Hubbard wants war.
Toying with his empty glass, the stranger again surveyed Hester, much as if the bully were some strange kind of insect.
Still Menon's lips moved not; then Kedah raised his head, his fingers toying nervously at his noose.
At Sozana's feet lay Prince Memetis, the Egyptian hostage, toying with her veil which was cast aside, and behind them stood an Afgan mute who waved a monster fan of plumes.
He spoke in a drawl, toyingcarelessly with his pistol.
She remained silent for a few moments, nervously toying with the single ring of emeralds upon her finger.
Some princes have spent their lives toying with women; some have made women their pastimes in the brief intervals of strenuous attention to war and to affairs; but Ferdinand was a prince of affairs in which women had no place.
That is gone; no swift embrace, no tender hand toying with his hair, beguiling him from play.
Clare was toying absently with her spoon and tea-cup; she was listening, and occasionally put in a word, but her thoughts were evidently elsewhere.
Agatha was writing letters at her davenport in the drawing-room, and Clare was still toying with her cup of tea.
I would not have it so," said he, his head on one side and his fingers toying with his auburn beard.
That day I said to her as her face was towards mine on the pillow, and I was toying with her bubbies, "I wonder who had you before me.
One day I had been toying with the girl, had a cockstand, and felt again my prick sore, and was washing it with warm water, when it swelled up.
Pompadour, his idle fingers toying with the jewelled girdle of her fan.
She was toying with the seal, forgetful somehow of the purpose and the plans which it represented.
And he begantoying with her as a prelude to possession.
So he sported and joyance grew on him and he bestowed robes of honour on the damsels and gave and bestowed, challenging this girl and kissing that and toying with a third, plying one with wine and morselling another with meat, till nightfall.
But when the King took her to his bed and fell to toying with her and wished to go in to her she wept; which made him ask, "What aileth thee?
For some minutes she was too overcome to say anything; she sat grim and silent, her pale eyes glaring at me, her freckled fingers toying with the diamonds.
And all the while he was thinking thus, his heart rising in rebellion against the words of Hamar, the girl continued gazing up at him, and toying with the rings on her slender, milk-white fingers.
She, with feverish flush on her soft cheeks, her eyes veiled by their white lids and fringed with their sweeping lashes, was nervously toying with her gloves, yet listening, painfully listening.
Alarmed at his silence, toying nervously with her fan, she strove to see his eyes, yet dared not look around.
On a table near a window lay that painted skull Ugolini kept toying with.
During this speech, the second Yager has begun toying with the girl who has been in waiting.
So acute indeed was this feeling of my moral littleness that I did naught but stand shifting from one foot to the other, toying in silly fashion with the hilt of my sword.
In their ardor they strained forward eagerly, leaning upon their rests, their eyes glancing down their weapons, their fingers toying lovingly with their match cords.
Now step back fifteen paces while I make my toilet," Carney commanded, toying with his 6-gun in the way of emphasis.
Aurora, after a pause, smiling downward and toying with her rings.
Amid the tomb-like objects about us we seemed two puny mortals toying with stupendous things.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "toying" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
