Let your reason have
fair play, Jack, and you will see this match in so foolish and preposterous a light, that there will be no need of any dissuasive arguments." "How, sir?" replies young Nightingale, "is there this difference between having already done an act, and being in honour engaged to do it?" "Pugh!" said the uncle, "honour is a creature of the world's making, and the world hath the power of a creator over it, and may govern and direct it as they please.
For could the sun do that, then could I do the other; since there is ever a sort of
fair play herein, jealousy presiding over all creations.
I'm sure a finer disposition than yours by nature could not be, if you'd let it have
fair play: so you've no excuse that way.'
All together, too; none of those chivalrous magnanimities which one reads so much about -- one courtly rascal at a time, and the rest standing by to see
fair play. No, they came in a body, they came with a whirr and a rush, they came like a volley from a battery; came with heads low down, plumes streaming out behind, lances advanced at a level.
As soon as he came into the yard he walked very softly, and the ladies-in-waiting were so busy counting the kisses and seeing
fair play that they never noticed the Emperor.
Men, upon too many occasions, do not give their own understandings
fair play; but, yielding to some untoward bias, they entangle themselves in words and confound themselves in subtleties.
Richard stood for half a minute digesting the answer; and then the god of
fair play came upper-most in his heart, and murmuring 'Good morning,' he made his escape into the street.
In his forays into the North Atlantic the East Wind behaves like a subtle and cruel adventurer without a notion of honour or
fair play. Veiling his clear-cut, lean face in a thin layer of a hard, high cloud, I have seen him, like a wizened robber sheik of the sea, hold up large caravans of ships to the number of three hundred or more at the very gates of the English Channel.
"Little less noise there," Peter called out, determined that she should have
fair play, however beastly a story it might be in his opinion.
On the other hand, they radiated an atmosphere of manliness and the
fair play that goes with manliness.
'And sit down, both of you,' (to the King and the Unicorn): '
fair play with the cake, you know!'
Glegg had always augured ill of Maggie's future at a time when other people were perhaps less clear-sighted, yet
fair play was a jewel, and it was not for her own friends to help to rob the girl of her fair fame, and to cast her out from family shelter to the scorn of the outer world, until she had become unequivocally a family disgrace.