| In today's market yesterday's playthings fetch serious prices and last year was a bumper year for toys and related ephemera. |
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| Toy industry experts say that such war-themed playthings will be booming this Christmas. |
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| Kemi chased the butterflies until they flew away, and then she yowled for more playthings. |
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| Casey kept her room perfectly clean, barely touching her old playthings and rose early each morning, expecting a reveille from Agent Michael. |
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| The figures suggest strung puppets, and underline the subjects' impotence as playthings of a malign destiny. |
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| Lisa's room was filled with a collection of advertising mascots disguised as playthings. |
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| The religiosity at the core of his films has always transformed his leading ladies into masochistic saints at best, abused playthings at worst. |
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| I cannot bear the plethora of tacky, pointless, plasticky, badly constructed, playthings that are manufactured these days. |
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| She shows the playthings and toys to the children, yet will not reveal his gift, which she claims she will give him later that night. |
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| The room was no longer littered with his playthings, his toys from yesteryear. |
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| And like many children's toys today, playthings for pets are becoming more technological and educational. |
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| When do dolls cease to be mere playthings and pretty exhibits and assume a far more profound role? |
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| For plastic children's playthings, manufacturers often add a chemical as a softener. |
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| These scenes showcase the array of playthings abandoned by today's children in their rush to adulthood. |
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| But many toy makers are also worried that some playthings that once seemed fantastical now seem all too real. |
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| Treating people like pawns and playthings in your own private emotional board game is cruel and callous. |
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| The toy appeared strangely incongruous, almost an antique among the plastic playthings that littered the floor. |
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| It's easy to treat them as little playthings, forgetting they are highly insightful and sensitive. |
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| I cannot bear the plethora of tacky, pointless, plasticy, badly constructed, playthings that are manufactured these days. |
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| Even as a child, toy soldiers and toy guns were my favorite playthings. |
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| The nursery battle between high-tech gadgetry and simpler playthings still rages. |
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| Every block has a park with the usual swing, see-saw and playthings. |
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| You have to admit, even if they are the plastic playthings of young boys and the result of many years of study and research by adults, they do play on the imagination. |
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| These innovations made possible more playthings per child as well more variety and novelty in playthings, making children's products part of an emerging fashion industry. |
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| Your local pet store will carry an array of dog toys, but you can also find playthings around the house. |
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| Seeing the risk of being deprived of one of their favourite playthings, they continue to attack the Euro. |
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| Her 21st century Wendy house impressed manufacturers after she won a top prize in a national contest organised by the Trading Standards Institute to dream up safe playthings. |
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| Kings and princes came from far and wide to bestow upon the princess Violina fabulous playthings, exotic animals as pets, and rare books. |
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| What are the life-enhancing functions that will compel us to pay for these new playthings? |
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| And they can be more than just playthings, once they have been hooked up to a network. |
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| Decades ago Japanese companies produced heaps of cheap, plastic playthings. |
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| But beyond the many novel plush animals, the new sigikid catalogue also includes plenty of other great playthings. |
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| A two-year-old cannot be expected to differentiate between the dangerous things and such safe playthings as pots and pans. |
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| Good design and robustness are not the only criteria to be applied in choosing playthings. |
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| We do not want a Europe in which basic services of general interest are made the playthings of capitalist market forces. |
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| We're not playthings, we're not your little toys you can use to play God! |
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| We do need food in our belly and a roof over our heads. But to truly fulfill ourselves as human beings it is necessary to free ourselves from our obsession with materialism and material playthings. |
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| It does include not just fantastic playthings for kids grown out of baby age. At the same time it is a reliable guide through the jungle of offers in many toy shops. |
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| The countries of the Balkans, which have so often in the course of our continent's history been the playthings of the European Great Powers, must progressively be integrated into the European Union. |
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| The actions confirm that toys are not playthings when it comes to safety. |
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| Teams are now the playthings of zillionaires with large wallets and little idea about football. |
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| In large families, toys may be handed down from one child to another, but in the case of the only child who has too many toys, there is the question of what to do with the playthings he or she has grown out of. |
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| They are playthings for the woman's only child, a 27-month-old girl. |
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| The real culprits are those who organise illegal immigration, in whose hands those people hoping to emigrate are merely the playthings of a script that could easily become a tragedy. |
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| These people are now nothing but the playthings of a single man's ambition and, each time, the adventure is a real debacle of humanitarian catastrophes. |
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| With its missile launches in July and its recently announced nuclear test, Pyongyang has demonstrated that it can be as stubborn and as enamored of military playthings as the Bush administration. |
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| Nannied from cradle to grave by the world's most generous welfare systems, they squeal like spoiled children when asked to give up just a few of their playthings. |
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| If I consent to burn them, will you promise faithfully neither to send nor receive a letter again, nor a book, nor locks of hair, nor rings, nor playthings? |
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| The Christmas Grump allows scope for the Northern Stage team's trademark lo-fi entertainment, such as puppets, shadow play and old-school playthings. |
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