The morrice dancers accordingly set out upon their further progress, dancing and carolling as they went along to the sound of four musicians, who led the joyous band, while Simon Glover drew their coryphaeus into his house, and placed him in a chair by his parlour fire. ❋ Unknown (2008)
Hey, Rob, I love your far-out "what if -?" scenarios, Naturally, I'd enjoy the tiger getting his tail really twisted, but don't you feel Nancy would make a fine female first fiddle, a commendable, callipygian coryphaeus? ❋ Unknown (2006)
It will be remembered that he was the martial coryphaeus who led my little army to war against Mirambo, chanting the battle-song of the ❋ Henry Morton (2004)
Bad flute-players twist and twirl, if they have to represent ‘the quoit-throw,’ or hustle the coryphaeus when they perform the ❋ Unknown (2002)
Walter Roman was not only "a member of the International Brigade in Spain" but also a prominent coryphaeus of the Communist Party and of the Comintern, who became also, after the communist take-over of Romania, the political leader of the Romanian army. ❋ Ross, George (1992)
The Soviet Union was ferociously reviled by the reaction and its coryphaeus at the service of the exploiters. ❋ Unknown (1974)
The chief circumstance to which he owed this sudden wave of popularity was the adroitness with which he succeeded in putting himself at the head of the particular movement of which Daniel the Stylite was both the coryphaeus and the true inspirer. ❋ 1840-1916 (1913)
The great coryphaeus of the South-Galatian theory is Prof. Sire W.M. Ramsay. ❋ 1840-1916 (1913)
A singer could never tolerate a lyre that did not match his voice, nor a coryphaeus a chorus that did not chant in tune. ❋ Unknown (1895)
In time it became the custom for the leader, or coryphaeus, to be answered by one single member of the chorus, the latter being thus used merely for the chanting of commentaries on the narrative. ❋ Edward MacDowell (1884)
Herophilus, ille anatomicorum coryphaeus, as Vesalius calls him, was a pupil of Praxagoras, and his name is still in everyday use by medical students, attached to the torcular Herophili. ❋ William Osler (1884)
Bad flute-players twist and twirl, if they have to represent 'the quoit-throw,' or hustle the coryphaeus when they perform the 'Scylla.' ❋ 384 BC-322 BC Aristotle (1880)
From that, the constitutionalist school, there has been of late a strong reaction, the highest exponent, nay the very coryphaeus of which is Mr. Carlyle. ❋ Charles Kingsley (1847)
The coryphaeus, or leader of the chorus, took part in the dialogue as the representative of the rest, and, occasionally, even several of the number were excited into exclamations by the passion of the piece. ❋ Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton (1838)
They left their share of the dialogue to the coryphaeus. ❋ Thomas Love Peacock (1825)
The great patron and coryphaeus of this tribe, Nicolas Machiavel, laid down this for a master rule in his political scheme, That the shew of religion was helpful to the politician, but the reality of it hurtful and pernicious. ❋ 1634-1716 (1823)
The pianist also spoke about the work of the great coryphaeus. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Among birds, the ferruginous lark (Certhilauda burra, VU) and Sclater's lark (Spizocorys sclateri, LR) are strictly endemic to thisecoregion, while another five species are near-endemic: Karoo chat (Cercomela schlegelii), tractrac chat (Cercomela tractrac), red lark (Certhilauda burra), Karoo scrub robin (Cercotrichas coryphaeus), red-headed cisticola (Cisticola subruficapillus), and the Namaqua prinia (Phragmacia substriata). ❋ Unknown (2008)
