Playless

Then packed up & moved to another screen in another city to playless than a minute ago via webKevinSmith ❋ Jen Chaney (2011)

After forty-five years of the playless life of a serf to blighting seriousness, the wonder is that sourness had not entered to hopelessly curdle all chances for joyous living. ❋ Robert S. Carroll (N/A)

"The evils of lust and drink are the evils that devour playless and inhibited youth." ❋ Allan Hoben (N/A)

Odd little, silent creatures the children were, white-faced and white-haired, playless and grave, laboring like their elders even from the age of five or six. ❋ George Allan England (1906)

I had in my thought to speak of these new inhabitants as workers, but that word has in it too much of the suggestion of endless, hopeless, playless labor. ❋ John Finley (1901)

We need but follow the children, who have had a playless childhood, into a narrow and barren manhood. ❋ George Herbert Betts (1901)

We need but to trace back the history of the dull and brutish men of today, and find that they were the playless children of yesterday. ❋ George Herbert Betts (1901)

I was a playless day-dreamer, a _helluo librorum_; my appetite for which was indulged by a singular incident. ❋ Thomas De Quincey (1822)

Although it can't be denied that ghosts of the past might come and haunt you, acknowledging once mistakes or youth sins and when confronted being able to stand for those choices and explain or dismiss them is a far better skill to learn then engaging in a playless, rationalized online identity creation process, afraid of online stalkers, marketeers and future employees. ❋ Unknown (2008)

"From eight to fourteen I was a playless day-dreamer, a 'helluo librorum', my appetite for which was indulged by a singular incident: ❋ James Gillman (N/A)

"From eight to fourteen," he writes, "I was a playless day-dreamer, a" helluo librorum ", my appetite for which was indulged by a singular incident: a stranger, who was struck by my conversation, made me free of a circulating library in King Street, ❋ Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1803)