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Now, he could only play the last card in what was probably the world's coldest deck.

`` It's the second time War Ax hands made a play for that money.

Of course, males play a role there, but believe me when I say you wouldn't enjoy yourself one bit on Eromonga.

School began in August, the hottest part of the year, and for the first few days Miss Langford was very lenient with the children, letting them play a lot and the new ones sort of get acquainted with one another.

`` Don't you play hard today then.

`` OK., I won't play hard '', he promised.

`` Oh, come on Miss Langford, play with us just onct '', one of the little girls begged, smiling wistfully.

At noontime, remembering what the teacher had said about maybe playing with the kids, Jack stayed close to the schoolhouse while all the other big boys, except Charles, went off out the road to play ball.

`` Miss Langford, come out and play with us like you promised '', several of the little girls called.

`` Let's play with 'em '', Jack said, rising from where he sat on the ground and dusting off his overall pants.

`` Will you play with us again, Miss Langford ''??

`` I don't believe I'll play any more neither ''.

I don't mean a few aesthetes who play about with sensations, like a young prince in a miniature dabbling his hand in a pool.

Above, in the tiled prosceniums of the alcoves, boys sing the ghazals of Hafiz and Saadi, while at the very bottom, in the vaults, the toughs and blades of the city hoot and bang their drums, drink arak, play dice, and dance.

In his native Cologne, where his mother taught him to play the piano, he was able to read notes before he learned the alphabet.

We'll play Bruckner's Fifth Symphony in the original version, and Mahler's Seventh -- the least accessible, known, and played of Mahler's works.

The depersonalization continued as the dancer was further metamorphosed by the play of lights upon his figure.

The most effective political inventions seem to make maximum use of natural harbors and are aware that restraining breakwaters can play only a minor part in the whole scheme.

At the beginning of the play she has partial illumination and at the end she has complete illumination, but there has been no question but that she moves toward the dark.

That is the play.

Yet it is not only Europe the play refers to.

The trick these two play upon Jacoby reveals their want not simply of decency but of imagination as well.

In Plato's judgment, the arts play a meaningful role in society only in the education of the young, prior to the full development of their intellectual powers.

But Aristotle kept the principle of levels and even augmented it by describing in the Poetics what kinds of character and action must be imitated if the play is to be a vehicle of serious and important human truths.

A dominant motive is the poet's longing for his homeland and its boyhood associations: `` Not men-folk, but the fields where I would stray, The stones where as a child I used to play ''.