Hence with stationary objects this information is soon acquired; but with moveable objects, or toys, or things which are capable of varying, or multiplying the ideas received by the child, the look is more intense, and the attention is sustained without fatigue for a longer time.
"A Practical Enquiry into the Philosophy of Education"
James Gall
A doll, not my own, but my sister Bella's, which had moveable eyelids and a musical stomach, was treated by me in this manner, the result being that I learned little, while my poor sister suffered much.
"In the Track of the Troops"
R.M. Ballantyne
Her wrists and ankles were seized, extended, fastened to the moveable blocks at the extremities of the plank.
"Callista"
John Henry Cardinal Newman