Actor

Examples

• The man of whom I speak was a low pantomime actor; and, like many people of his class, an habitual drunkard. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• And the Old Man must have been an actor in many a primordial nightmare. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• I took it up, and it had solved the engine-oiling problem--and my walk to Lawrence like a tramp actor's was off! Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• What a charming actor is Elliston, I remarked. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• Senefelder's father was an actor at Munich, and in his youth he followed the same profession. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
• When an actor I had, of course, learned all the secrets of making up, and had been famous in the green-room for my skill. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
• These are placed in the hands of a producer, corresponding to a stage-director, generally an actor or theatrical man of experience, with a highly developed dramatic instinct. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• If they imitate they should imitate, not any meanness or baseness, but the good only; for the mask which the actor wears is apt to become his face. Plato. The Republic.
• On a low clerk, a play-actor, a play-writer, or--or---- Take courage, Mr. Sympson! Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• Maurice stalked away up the gorge, like a tragedy actor, much to the amusement of Justinian. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
• Rum fellow--does the heavy business--no actor--strange man--all sorts of miseries--Dismal Jemmy, we call him on the circuit. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• In making various motions of the body the ghost actor must reverse his movements; for example, if he raises his left arm the figure reflected above will appear to raise its right arm. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
• He's a strolling actor, he is, and his name's Jingle; and if ever there was a wolf in a mulberry suit, that 'ere Job Trotter's him. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• He is a strolling actor! Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• Having the reason that I had for being suspicious, I even suspected this poor actor. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• He had been to the Opera, and knew the merits of the principal actors, preferring Mr. Kean to Mr. Kemble. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• It grew to be broad daylight as they stood here, and fresh news began to arrive from the war, brought by men who had been actors in the scene. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• There was first one reciter, then two, and then three, and the rest of the company became the chorus to the declamations of these principal actors. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Neither are comic and tragic actors the same; yet all these things are but imitations. Plato. The Republic.
• Any more than they can be rhapsodists and actors at once? Plato. The Republic.
• With breathless amaze I entered on the gay scene, whose actors were --the lilies glorious as Solomon, Who toil not, neither do they spin. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• Have not actors wept, as they pourtrayed imagined passion? Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• The choice, too, of the actors required knowledge and carethen came lessons in elocution, in attitude, and then the fatigue of countless rehearsals. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• But I was really thinking of dramatic artists, singers, actors, musicians. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
• By-and-by, feeling the right power come--the spring demanded gush and rise inwardly--I became sufficiently composed to notice my fellow-actors. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• What scenes and actors the stern woman most reviewed, as she sat from season to season in her one dark room, none knew but herself. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• The various actors are selected, parts are assigned, and the scene-painters are set to work on the production of the desired scenery. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• They took the piece as phlegmatically as did the actors themselves. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• Maurice and the Demarch waited in the theatre alone for the actors, and very shortly Crispin came to see how they liked his play. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
• This was a surprise even to the actors, and when they saw the table, they looked at one another in rapturous amazement. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.

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