He settled himself against the balustrade separating the groundlings from the lower seats and waited. ❋ Unknown (2009)
Beside that was a patch of hard-pressed gravel, part of the area where the "groundlings" - theatergoers holding cheap standing-room-only tickets - crowded together to watch plays. ❋ Unknown (2010)
In Shakespeare's day the groundlings were a lot more unruly, and you could say that that actress wasn't being sincere or true to her Shakespearean traditions, taking umbrage at a harmless bit of tom foolery that wouldn't have caused Richard Burbage to drop so much as a single iamb from To be, or not to be. ❋ Unknown (2005)
Almost his only concession to the groundlings is the star-gazing episode of Lady Froth and Brisk: a mistake, because it spoils her inconsequent folly, but a small matter. ❋ William Congreve (1699)
Court were known as "groundlings" (jige); the residence of the ❋ Dairoku Kikuchi (1886)
His appeal has been to the few rather than the many, to an audience of scholars and of the judicious rather than to the "groundlings" of the general public. ❋ Unknown (1886)
The six-penny spectators, or "groundlings," stood in the yard or pit, which had neither floor nor roof. ❋ Unknown (1886)
The six-penny spectators, or "groundlings," stood in the yard, or pit, which had neither floor nor roof. ❋ Unknown (1886)
Undoubtedly, the "groundlings" shouted with delight when this fiend was plunged into the boiling caldron which he had heated for others. ❋ Francis Asbury Smith (1876)
But it is probable that the tastes thus generated were maintained long after the necessity for their existence had departed, and that, even when seats were permitted them, the "groundlings" still held by their old forms of amusement, demanding dramas of liveliness, incident, and action, and greatly preferring spectacle to speeches. ❋ Dutton Cook (1856)
Both are regarded as unworthy means of winning the applause of the "groundlings" in one case, and the laughter of "barren spectators" in the other. ❋ Dutton Cook (1856)
There were _pits_ furnished with seats, in place of the _yards_, as they were called, of the public theatres, in which the "groundlings" were compelled to stand throughout the performance. ❋ Dutton Cook (1856)
As patience and endurance are more easy to the man who sits than to the standing spectator, it came to be understood that a livelier kind of entertainment must be provided for the "groundlings" of the public theatres than there was need to present to the seated pit of the private playhouses. ❋ Dutton Cook (1856)
I also seem to remember stories of it flooding and "groundlings" being ankle deep in water under the tent!!! ❋ Unknown (2010)
She thought the ordinary people or 'groundlings' in Europe would ultimately be offended by the dream of Eurabia by intellectual elitists and push back against Muslim Islamization. ❋ Unknown (2009)
"groundlings" had given place to people of fashion and social distinction. ❋ Dutton Cook (1856)
O, it offends me to the soul to hear a robustious periwig-pated fellow tear a passion to tatters, to very rags, to split the ears of the groundlings, who for the most part are capable of nothing but inexplicable dumb shows and noise. ❋ George Heymont (2011)
"Wow, look at all those groundlings! It's [too nice] a day to be [stuck] [down there]!" ❋ Athene Airheart (2004)
Don't take your [cessna] below [a thousand] feet over a city, you don't want to bother the [groundlings]. ❋ Athene Airheart (2005)
[Human beings] are [groundlings]. ❋ Uttam Maharjan (2010)
