But one day among the rocks he found a playfellow. From Wordnik.com. [The Water Babies] Reference
She had been so lonely, and now she had a playfellow!. From Wordnik.com. [Story Hour Readers — Book Three] Reference
From that time he was her doll, her playfellow, her baby. From Wordnik.com. [The Nursery, No. 107, November, 1875, Vol. XVIII. A Monthly Magazine for Youngest Readers] Reference
Levy hardly knew him for the shy, taciturn playfellow of his boyhood. From Wordnik.com. [The New Land Stories of Jews Who Had a Part in the Making of Our Country] Reference
Soon the child remembered her playfellow, Ponto, and began to call him. From Wordnik.com. [Memories A Record of Personal Experience and Adventure During Four Years of War] Reference
He was friendly, and didn't mean any harm, but he was a rude playfellow. From Wordnik.com. [The Youth's Companion Volume LII, Number 11, Thursday, March 13, 1879] Reference
What! have you altogether forgotten your friend, gossip, and playfellow, Michael. From Wordnik.com. [Kenilworth] Reference
"And so this is really my little playfellow!" he exclaimed, nodding meditatively. From Wordnik.com. [The Daughters of Danaus] Reference
No, he is very glad for me to have a playfellow, for I am rather lonely sometimes. From Wordnik.com. [Little Folks (October 1884) A Magazine for the Young] Reference
Just as they were about to start, their playfellow Theseus came running to join them. From Wordnik.com. [Young Folks Treasury, Volume 2 (of 12)] Reference
But you will want to know the cause of this giving-up of so beloved a little playfellow. From Wordnik.com. [Little Folks (Septemeber 1884) A Magazine for the Young] Reference
When he raised it, a figure was underneath, and before him stood his pleasant playfellow. From Wordnik.com. [Eastern Tales by Many Story Tellers] Reference
As companion, friend, playfellow, in fact anything you like of the light order of servitude. From Wordnik.com. [April's Lady A Novel] Reference
‘Kill my dear little dog, who had been my playfellow since he was a puppy?’ exclaimed he. From Wordnik.com. [The Brown Fairy Book] Reference
He was of no consequence, he did not count; what was he but her comrade and former playfellow?. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
The lonely young man of twenty-two was both playfellow and teacher of the delicate child of eight. From Wordnik.com. [The Journal to Stella] Reference
It appears, therefore, that this child also was in Bari, and was being educated with his playfellow. From Wordnik.com. [Lucretia Borgia According to Original Documents and Correspondence of Her Day] Reference
But for the pluck and courage of my little playfellow, a lassie of some twelve summers, I was lost. From Wordnik.com. [In the Shadow of Death] Reference
On one of the last days, he proposed to his playfellow that she should be his wife, and go home with him. From Wordnik.com. [Eastern Tales by Many Story Tellers] Reference
And all the little Cobras were very sorrowful to think that they must lose their playfellow, the young Prince. From Wordnik.com. [Young Folks Treasury, Volume 2 (of 12)] Reference
Grenadine, for such was her name, led a very dull life, and was delighted to have a playfellow, so she gave him. From Wordnik.com. [The Olive Fairy Book] Reference
Before their Saturday holiday was over, the children had discovered that their father was a strenuous playfellow. From Wordnik.com. [Golden Stories A Selection of the Best Fiction by the Foremost Writers] Reference
He earnestly longed to have always about him so merry a playfellow, to afford him diversion with her childish mirth. From Wordnik.com. [Eastern Tales by Many Story Tellers] Reference
When I took you away from your poor dead mother and brought you out here, Hen Haney, to be a playfellow of me little. From Wordnik.com. [The Campfire Girls of Roselawn Or, a Strange Message from the Air] Reference
Jussuf perceived it, the arrow flew from the bow, and his playfellow lay in his arms, pierced through with the arrow. From Wordnik.com. [Eastern Tales by Many Story Tellers] Reference
Youth calls to youth, and she hailed his advent into her monotonous life as a child greets the coming of a playfellow. From Wordnik.com. [The Jungle Girl] Reference
Certainly as she stood, crowned, she seemed the best sort of a playfellow, since she could pretend as well as any child. From Wordnik.com. [Suzanna Stirs the Fire] Reference
He was not long without a playfellow; for a year after there was a daughter called Mary, and then another son called James. From Wordnik.com. [The Children's Book of London] Reference
"The wretch!" cried Sophia, "to sleep soundly after assassinating his old playfellow, who had suffered so much on his account.". From Wordnik.com. [Willis the Pilot] Reference
Alice was a dear girl, and we loved her as our own; and she loved Charles above all, and was his friend, his nurse, his playfellow. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 55, No. 344, June, 1844] Reference
A long time ago there lived a young prince whose favourite playfellow was the son of the gardener who lived in the grounds of the palace. From Wordnik.com. [The Brown Fairy Book] Reference
The little Owensons possessed one remarkable playfellow in the shape of Thomas Dermody, the 'wonderful boy,' who was regarded in Dublin as. From Wordnik.com. [Little Memoirs of the Nineteenth Century] Reference
Ida cherishes very tender memories of him, for he was the only brother whom she knew, and her constant playfellow before Gabrielle's birth. From Wordnik.com. [The Story of a Summer Or, Journal Leaves from Chappaqua] Reference
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