byplay

Example Sentences

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If it was just one of your funny little byplays, then I can say only that my disgust defies expression.

From Time Magazine Archive

Similarly, in Connecticut: if old Governor Cross loses to Republican Baldwin and Senator Lonergan to Republican Danaher, it will largely be due to local byplays and political scandals.

From Time Magazine Archive

They seem rather the incidental byplays and recreations of a fanry chiefly turned to sacred music of the larger forms.

From Contemporary American Composers Being a Study of the Music of This Country, Its Present Conditions and Its Future, with Critical Estimates and Biographies of the Principal Living Composers; and an Abundance of Portraits, Fac-simile Musical Autographs, and Compositions by Hughes, Rupert

Night and day, year in and year out, with all kinds of chessmen, and with an infinite variety of byplays, "the great game" is played in Constantinople.

From The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 21 The Recent Days (1910-1914) by Horne, Charles F. (Charles Francis)