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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

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

I had in my thought to speak of these new inhabitants as workers, but that word has in it too much of the suggestion of endless, hopeless, playless labor.

From The French in the Heart of America by Finley, John

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

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