The manager appeared to say that the Duc de Rhetore and Tullia the opera-dancer were in the stage-box, and they had consented to allow Lucien to join them. ❋ Unknown (2007)
A minister, a duke, and an opera-dancer had joined the party of journalists, and wondered at their sinister power. ❋ Unknown (2007)
We recklessly fling gold to an opera-dancer, and haggle with a tradesman whose hungry family must wait for the settlement of our bill. ❋ Unknown (2007)
But I should like us to be quits for such a momentous service; that is, if you are not laughing at an unlucky wretch, so I wish that you may fall in love with an opera-dancer. ❋ Unknown (2007)
Many a respectable person would be as much shocked at the notion, as if his son had married an opera-dancer. ❋ Unknown (2006)
That leering, painted, shrivelled, thin-armed, thick-ankled old thing, cutting dreary capers, coming thumping down on her board out of time — THAT an opera-dancer? ❋ Unknown (2006)
She had a kind of hazy idea that an opera-dancer and a gambling club were indispensable in fitting a young aristocrat for his future career; and I doubt whether she would not have agreed to the expediency of inoculating ❋ Unknown (2004)
That great lout of an Alsatian is going to have supper with his opera-dancer. ❋ Unknown (2003)
It was an opera-dancer, and had been one of the troop which deserted from Villeneuve-la-Guiard: falling sick, he had been deserted by his companions; in an access of delirium he had fancied himself on the stage, and, poor fellow, his dying sense eagerly accepted the last human applause that could ever be bestowed on his grace and agility. ❋ Unknown (2003)
Taking his place at the table, Henry gave a most amusing account of the position of his brother Francis between the mercenary opera-dancer on one side, and the unscrupulous manager of the ❋ Unknown (2003)
I say again, I am daily brought in contact with all ranks of society, from the poverty-stricken patentee to the peer; and I am no more surprised at receiving an application from a duchess than from a pet opera-dancer. ❋ Various (N/A)
Mick had a better guard, holding his right well out across his chest, and dodging in his left every now and then, keeping moving about on his pins as lightly as an opera-dancer. ❋ John B. [Illustrator] Greene (N/A)
What would the good prelate say if he knew that I shared my last quarter's allowance with a charming little opera-dancer? ❋ Various (N/A)
He applied to a Mademoiselle Rem, who had been an opera-dancer, and who was M. le Normand's mistress. ❋ Various (N/A)
So much in exposition of the fact, that, so long as the world possessed only three of what we choose to call quarters, an executioner was an officer of state; and that, now it possesses five, the female of highest renown, and greatest power of self-enrichment, is the _danseuse_, or opera-dancer! ❋ Various (N/A)
From this, and a few words which she takes an opportunity of saying to him, he finds that she is an opera-dancer named Zephyrine, who had had an engagement a year or two previously at the Marseilles theatre. ❋ Various (N/A)
_ -- The body, face, and arms of the opera-dancer present no peculiarities above the rest of his species; and it is to his lower extremities alone that we must look for distinguishing features. ❋ Various (N/A)
Most of his fellow bipeds live by the work of their hands, except indeed the feathered and tailor tribes, who live by their bills; but from his thighs, calves, ancles, and toes, does the opera-dancer derive subsistence for the less important portions of his anatomy. ❋ Various (N/A)
_ -- The habits of the opera-dancer vary according as we see him in public or in private life. ❋ Various (N/A)
