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playfellow

NOUN
  1. a companion at play

How To Use playfellow In A Sentence

  • I warn you, though, I had a young Greek last year as playfellow, very brawny and bronzed…
  • The lady said the two children were playfellows, and she was sure you would not object.
  • She was too gentle to tyrannize over her playfellow, yet she had ruled him abjectly, except when in canoe, or on horse or surf-board, at which times he had taken charge and she had rendered obedience. ALOHA OE
  • And your little heart did throb a little, and sink for a day, when this playfellow was shipped off for life, as you thought, and you _did_ remember his funeral tears over his owl, and" -- a quaver of voice and betrayed earnestness revealed the jealous pang shooting across the heart of the speaker; but her own was too heavy and deeply anxious to prolong this desultory talk. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Vol 58, No. 357, July 1845
  • Her foolish, beautiful mother and brother Sefton try to treat the boy as a slave, but Susan and her playfellow learn to read together, and Susan becomes increasingly independent.
  • They regarded him as a playfellow rather than a partner, and treated him with more fondness than respect’.
  • She had looked upon him as her playfellow.
  • When they came into the world, and for the first six or eight years of their existence, they were perhaps very much alike, and neither their parents nor playfellows could perceive any remarkable difference.
  • And you, Miss Debenham, also came here on an errand of mercy and redemption, to save your old playfellow ? LION IN THE VALLEY
  • Be as churlish as you list -- I never quarrel with my customers -- my jerry come tumbles, my merry dancers, my little playfellows, as Jacques Butcher says to his lambs -- those in fine, who, like your seigniorship, have H.E. M.P. written on their foreheads. Quentin Durward
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