Actors

Examples

• 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.
• Have you playwrights and actors here? Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
• Each case has been the prelude to another, and the crisis once over, the actors have passed for ever out of our busy lives. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• Third, that Penelope had heard them rehearsing their hocus-pocus, like actors rehearsing a play. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• These are the great actors for whom the stage is reserved. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• Our playwrights date from old Hellenic days, and are called ?schylus, Sophocles, and Euripides; the actors are my Greeks. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
• Much of the substance of his story was gathered by him from actors in, and eye-witnesses of, the great events he relates. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• This meeting was an occasion for sublime foolishness on the part of both the principal actors. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Before the photographing of a scene, a long series of rehearsals takes place, the incidents being gone over and over again until the actors are letter perfect. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.

Edited by Ian