A verbal game, showing, they had thought, its only physical manifestation in certain tattoos of dragons and executioners on his arms.

Hearest thou not how spirit hath here become a verbal game?

She didn't play the verbal games so many girls did.

Nyquist was always saying things like that, and Selig never could be sure whether he meant them or was just playing verbal games.

Schmid could play his verbal games, with hair-splitting answers and tricky questions, but he wasn't getting anywhere either.

The verbal game is started with the players getting into a circle.

She liked to talk, to rib him and play verbal games.

"I'm a messiah," I answered curtly, in no mood for verbal or physical games.

It was a serious verbal game of cat-and-mouse, with neither side willing to concede a point to the other.

Pizarro may not care for Socrates' little verbal games.