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Example sentences for "played upon"

  • Mr. Flint rose and went to the window, where he stood silent for a space, looking out, played upon by unwonted conflicting thoughts and emotions.

  • The puzzled hunter is sometimes fairly tired out before he discovers the trick that is played upon him.

  • After a while he had taken down his concertina and played upon it the six very mournful airs that he knew.

  • There was a man in another town, And his name was Willy Wood; And he played upon a razor, And his name was Willy Wood.

  • Perceiving that the doctor cast upon one instrument glances especially tender whenever I played upon it, I gladly afforded the good old man pleasure by declaring it to be the best Violin.

  • I, therefore, played upon them, and placed them in order, according to my idea of their merit.

  • I was willing to be played upon, and so it was skilfully done, to concede to it more than the situation had a right to claim for itself.

  • She was a note of true music, and he felt himself to be an indecisive chord; capable ultimately of a splendid performance, it might be, but at present crying out to be played upon.

  • She felt herself so low before this man who would not be played upon as an obsequious instrument--who would not leap into ardour for her beauty!

  • Mr. Barrett, rather at a loss to account for his excitement, said, that it must be admitted they had borne the trick played upon them, with remarkable good humour.

  • Even were she to relate the vain hopes which had led to the expence of the ball dress, could she plead, to an understanding like that of her Mother, that she had been deceived and played upon by such a woman as Mrs. Mittin?


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    assistant counsel; can you; disagreeable taste; everlasting doors; exclusively devoted; galling fire; green tree; half hour; hostile manner; just revenge; laid hold; large dose; little clearing; marine boilers; monastic life; played upon; realised that; sorrow and; suddenly stopped; this group; when about; wireless operator