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But, thanks to the enterprising Green Room Club of Lancaster's Franklin and Marshall College, the town is not left playless.

From Time Magazine Archive

We need but to trace back the history of the dull and brutish men of today, and find that they were the playless children of yesterday.

From The Mind and Its Education by Betts, George Herbert

During the first half of his stay here, his health was still further injured by continuing as he was in earlier childhood, "a playless daydreamer," and by a habit of almost constant reading.

From Halleck's New English Literature by Halleck, Reuben Post

We need but follow the children, who have had a playless childhood, into a narrow and barren manhood.

From The Mind and Its Education by Betts, George Herbert

From eight to fourteen I was a playless day-dreamer, a helluo librorum; my appetite for which was indulged by a singular incident.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 57, No. 351, January 1845 by Various