"Toying" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... sections of chimney-pots, which flew harmless over the heads of the crowd, invariably struck me," said Mr. O'CONNOR, toying with the bandage ...
— Punch, Or The London Charivari, Vol. 101, November 14th, 1891 • Various
... still unconvinced, hesitated, then assented, halting a brief distance from Maitland and toying abstractedly with his cane while the young man ...
— The Brass Bowl • Louis Joseph Vance
... giddy madmen," said Waldemar, "who must be toying with follies when such business was ...
— Ivanhoe - A Romance • Walter Scott
... immediately proposed a walk to our garden the next day. Accordingly we went there the next morning; she had contrived that we should remain alone the whole day, which she employed in preparing me for those favors she meant to bestow; not as another woman would have done, by toying and folly, but by discourses full of sentiment and reason, rather tending to instruct than seduce, and which spoke more to my heart than to my senses. Meantime, however excellent and to the purpose these discourses might be, and though ...
— The Confessions of J. J. Rousseau, Complete • Jean Jacques Rousseau
... was regular, Birchard?" asked Eugene, toying with his check lovingly. He had just finished figuring that it was worth ...
— Five Thousand an Hour - How Johnny Gamble Won the Heiress • George Randolph Chester
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