"Toy with" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... him. But he didn't. He concluded, not without profound amazement, that his passion for her which had burned so long and brightly had been no more than sentimental incandescence. And he began to think himself a very devil of a fellow, who could toy with the love of women with such complete insouciance, who could off with the old love before he had found a new and care not ...
— The Bandbox • Louis Joseph Vance
... "I must not toy with them yet," said Ambrose, "I have a message for my aunt. Brother, wilt thou walk down to the ...
— The Armourer's Prentices • Charlotte M. Yonge
... commonplace. He sighed deeply, significantly, at the close of every sentence; he sighed in each pause; he sighed ere he opened his mouth. At last, finding it desirable to add ease to his other charms, he drew forth to aid him an ample silk pocket-handkerchief. This was to be the graceful toy with which his unoccupied hands were to trifle. He went to work with a certain energy. He folded the red-and-yellow square cornerwise; he whipped it open with a waft; again he folded it in narrower compass; he made of it a handsome band. ...
— Shirley • Charlotte Bronte
... their new toy with them to the parlour, and Miss Rosabel treated them all to a few more winning smiles, and then quietly, but very decidedly fell asleep in ...
— Patty's Summer Days • Carolyn Wells
... all over with him and gave up at once. The Indians had been aware of his hiding-place from the moment he fell, and their passage beyond it, their return and their conversation, were all made on purpose to toy with his fears, as a cat would play with a ...
— The Ranger - or The Fugitives of the Border • Edward S. Ellis
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