make play for

There’s nothing in all the world so deceptive as appearances, Sir Mawson; perhaps, when I’ve heard the facts——Well, haven’t I told you that I am out for a pair of expert jewel thieves, and that that necklace is just the sort of thing they’d be likely to make play for?

Nor, until either warrior has exhausted his patriarchal reminiscences, do they heave up the boss and the bull-hide, or make play for a thrust at the midriff.

It is the particular desire of the gentlemen who are looking on that I should hook a salmon that will at once corroborate this theory by a vigorous object lesson; equally sincere am I in my supplication that I am not thus forced to make play for the Philistines.

The frontal hernia that crumbles the sand with its impact has a tendency to make play for some time after the emergence from the ground.

It was quite evident now: for two years past Vandeuvres had been preparing his final stroke and had accordingly told Gresham to hold Nana in, while he had only brought Lusignan forward in order to make play for the filly.