Performers

Examples

• Elliston himself is kind enough to play one of my characters, and the others he has given to his very best performers. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• A sufficient interval having elapsed for the performers to resume their ordinary costume, they re-entered the dining-room. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• Agamemnon could not be got to show in his classical tunic, but stood in the background with Aegisthus and others of the performers of the little play. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• The performers were called by the whole house, which sounded with cries of Manager! William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• There was no scenery to render gay this lugubrious environment, but the black interior served as the common background for the performers, throwing all their actions into high relief. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• She is fairly introduced into our _corps de ballet_, and will figure, from time to time, in her turn, with other performers. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• Servants brought in salvers covered with numerous cool dainties, and the performers disappeared to get ready for the second charade-tableau. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• She was dining with Mrs. Fisher, who had gathered at an informal feast a few of the performers of the previous evening. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• We bespeak your indulgence, you understand, as young performers; we bespeak your indulgence. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
• He was certainly much indebted to the exertions of all the very excellent performers who played in it, particularly Elliston and Harley. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.

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