toyshop
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In one episode Pockets, Giggles and Spin venture to a toyshop, only to find it is in an inaccessible treehouse.
From BBC ● Oct. 29, 2023
The family have been leafing through a toyshop brochure together and discussing which two toys the children might like to have.
From BBC ● Dec. 7, 2022
Our local toyshop is neatly divided into two aisles, one with building sets and model trains and games, the other with Barbies and princess dresses.
From Slate ● Dec. 2, 2014
After a few questions, it emerges that what Georgette has is a kind of online toyshop, like a wedding list but for kids.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 31, 2011
It's not exactly a toyshop, you know, but they have toys in one window.'
From Miss Mouse and Her Boys by Molesworth, Mrs.
This Christmas for the first time "cheap" toys Made in Germany will be relatively dear in British toyshops.
From Time Magazine Archive
How utterly we despise the silly little bricks of the toyshops!
From Floor Games; a companion volume to "Little Wars" by Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)
The little church stands on a bare brown hill, and all about it is an improvised village consisting half of restaurants and the other half of toyshops.
From Castilian Days by Hay, John
Nor did I painfully wish, what I was never permitted for an instant to hope, or even imagine, the possession of such things as one saw in toyshops.
From Stories of Authors, British and American by Chubb, Edwin Watts
The new beaux and the old ones began to buy modish habits and periwigs, adorn themselves with new sword and shoulder knots, and trifle over the latest essences offered in the toyshops.
From His Grace of Osmonde Being the Portions of That Nobleman's Life Omitted in the Relation of His Lady's Story Presented to the World of Fashion under the Title of A Lady of Quality by Burnett, Frances Hodgson
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