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Ammonius began to jeer me for choosing a rose chaplet before a laurel, saying that those made of flowers were effeminate, and fitted toyish girls and women more than grave philosophers and men of music.

Essays and Miscellanies 2004

Ammonius began to jeer me for choosing a rose chaplet before a laurel, saying that those made of flowers were effeminate, and fitted toyish girls and women more than grave philosophers and men of music.

Symposiacs 2004

In that there is no harm; for it importeth nothing else but that betwixt my wife and me there will occur some toyish wanton tricks which usually happen to all new-married folks.

Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002

In confirmation hereof, Theophrastus, being asked on a time what kind of beast or thing he judged a toyish, wanton love to be? he made answer, that it was a passion of idle and sluggish spirits.

Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002

In that there is no harm; for it importeth nothing else but that betwixt my wife and me there will occur some toyish wanton tricks which usually happen to all new-married folks.

Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002

In confirmation hereof, Theophrastus, being asked on a time what kind of beast or thing he judged a toyish, wanton love to be? he made answer, that it was a passion of idle and sluggish spirits.

Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002

In addition to this, he sometimes had a playful manner of titulating the craniums of his friends, so visited, with a toyish sort of article he was induced to carry on his person for his own vital preservation.

Fern Vale (Volume 1) or the Queensland Squatter Colin Munro

They have, says the reverend author, what one would not expect, many light toyish books (novels and plays, doubtless), others on Rosycrucian subjects, and of an abstruse mystical character; but they have no Bibles or works of devotion.

Letters on Demonology and Witchcraft 1885

As Mildred advanced along the shaded walk, she was followed by a fantastical little attendant, whom, in the toyish freak of a solitary and luxurious life, she had trained to fill the station of a lady's page.

Horse-Shoe Robinson: A Tale of the Tory Ascendency. 1852

Theophrastus being asked on a time, What kind of beast or thing he judged a toyish, wanton love to be? he made answer,

Aphrodisiacs and Anti-aphrodisiacs: Three Essays on the Powers of Reproduction John Davenport 1833