He left the Park turned into Knightsbridge and came upon a toyshop.
"Fortitude"
Hugh Walpole
He thought of the toyshop-that blue ball-it would be the first thing that he would buy for the boy-and then soldiers-soldiers that wouldn't hurt him, that he couldn't lick the paint from- Now the little silver clock ticked!
"Fortitude"
Hugh Walpole
The gallant Captain, on the other hand, treated her as he would have treated his own child-that is to say, he bought her extravagant toys if the proximity of a toyshop put it into his head to do so, pinched her arms and cheeks and neck jocularly whenever he found her head at the level of his waistcoat, and then departed, as likely as not to pinch maturer arms and necks, not Mrs. Chaffinger's, elsewhere.
"The Story of Louie"
Oliver Onions