People drew close to one another and in the half-empty city they squeezed together as tight as toys in a playbox.    From Wordnik.com.  [When Hell Froze Over, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty] Reference

And you keep telling her she can't talk to you like you're just a kid and she's your teacher 'cause playbox is fair play space, and no bullying allowed, read the sign.    From Wordnik.com.  ["You may have seen that some Hillary Clinton 'sock puppets' were recently outed on a New Hampshire blog, to the campaign’s great embarrassment."] Reference

When every piece in your playbox of verbal bricks can be dealt with separately, because it is not joined on in all sorts of ways to the other pieces, then only can you compose new constructions to your liking.    From Wordnik.com.  [Human Traits and their Social Significance] Reference

He was thirteen; already he had been taunted for dallying overlong about the playbox; he had to blush if he was found among his lead soldiers; the shades of the prison-house were closing about him with a vengeance.    From Wordnik.com.  [Virginibus Puerisque and other papers] Reference

"Why, in my playbox to be sure; where should it be?".    From Wordnik.com.  [Vice Versa or A Lesson to Fathers] Reference

We went over to their playbox, Haines and I, the plumbers 'hall.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ulysses] Reference

"As for those illicit luxuries in your playbox," continued the Doctor.    From Wordnik.com.  [Vice Versa or A Lesson to Fathers] Reference

A crawling reptile which curries favour by denouncing the very crime it conceals in its playbox!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Vice Versa or A Lesson to Fathers] Reference

"Where for, sir, please?" said a porter, who had been putting the playbox and portmanteau on a truck during the altercation.    From Wordnik.com.  [Vice Versa or A Lesson to Fathers] Reference

Titania said that Fairies dislike people who are untidy, and I hoped that she hadn't seen my playbox or my chest of drawers.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Fairies and the Christmas Child] Reference

They came across the bridges with glinting rifles, and the blue coats and red trousers of the infantry made them look in the distance like tin soldiers from a children's playbox.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Soul of the War] Reference

He could find nothing to do; he climbed up the Abbey tower, and wrote his name on the big hand of the clock; he roped up his playbox, tipped the school porter; and still there was an hour and a half to put in.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Loom of Youth] Reference

We went over to their playbox, Haines and I, the plumbers’ hall.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ulysses] Reference

“When I came out Mike was looking in the playbox for that magnifying glass you gave him.    From Wordnik.com.  [Death of a Peer]

She then said to Huggo, her voice very low, "Darling, run now to see everything is in your playbox.    From Wordnik.com.  [This Freedom] Reference

"It isn't in your playbox, I know," put in Siggers: "because I saw it turned out yesterday and there was no rabbit then.    From Wordnik.com.  [Vice Versa or A Lesson to Fathers] Reference

I have implicit trust and confidence in you -- let every boarder go down into the box-room and fetch up his playbox, just as it is, and open it here before me. ".    From Wordnik.com.  [Vice Versa or A Lesson to Fathers] Reference

He remembered his first day — a brand-new little boy in a brand-new little top-hat, with a playbox stored by his mother with things to eat, and blessed with the words: “There, Summy dear, that’ll make you popular.”.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Silver Spoon] Reference

Besides, how could a rabbit live in a playbox?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Vice Versa or A Lesson to Fathers] Reference

Benji, go and see the lovely playbox things. ".    From Wordnik.com.  [This Freedom] Reference