Unlike me, he specialized in work for the major film companies -- investigating property-room and backlot thefts, insurance claims against the studios, missing actors or actors 'relatives, things like that. ❋ Pronzini, Bill (1981)
As I sat behind them at the concert the other night, I was profoundly touched by the feelings of this kingship without mantle and crown from the property-room of the old world. ❋ Charles Herbert Sylvester (N/A)
It so happened that a number of these scrolls had Been thrown aside after one of the grand spectacles at Astley's Amphitheatre, and remained amongst other lumber in the property-room, until the late destructive fire which occurred there. ❋ Various (N/A)
Capulets were not gleaming white and awful in the lamplight of the property-room; or, at all events, would be gleaming if any body were to hunt them up with a practicable lantern. ❋ Various (N/A)
Furnish with the scourings of the property-room -- a great convenience for Sunday evening productions. ❋ Various (N/A)
He darted along this alley between a ramshackle fence and the brick wall of the property-room. ❋ Marsh, Ngaio, 1895-1982 (1937)
They locked the portrait in the property-room, and said good night conspiratorially. ❋ Marsh, Ngaio, 1895-1982 (1935)
This may be due to a gipsy strain in my ancestry -- one of my uncles travelled with a circus -- or it may be the Artistic Temperament, acquired from a grandfather who, before dying of a surfeit of paste in the property-room of the Bristol Coliseum, which he was visiting in the course of a professional tour, had an established reputation on the music-hall stage as one of Professor ❋ Unknown (1928)
They opened the door of the property-room and glanced inside. ❋ Unknown (1911)
Observing that the grave-digger in his too eager realism was damaging the thing -- the marks of his pick and spade are visible on the cranium -- Edwin Booth presently replaced it with a papier-maché counterfeit manufactured in the property-room of the theatre. ❋ Unknown (1904)
And the wardrobe woman, who was fluttering wildly about, and as delighted as though they were all her own children, told him to come into the property-room, where the children were, and which had been changed into a dressing-room that they might be by themselves. ❋ Unknown (1899)
He yearned for a "property-room," where executive members of the staff would disguise themselves beyond recognition. ❋ Herbert George Jenkins (1899)
The attempt to apotheosise human nature, to invest our kindred clay with theatrical glamour and to drape it from the property-room, this mythical creation of "a magnified non-natural man," what is it all but the perpetuation of the false psychology of the past? ❋ Israel Zangwill (1895)
Wrecks and argosies and dead faces, mermaidens and subterranean palaces, and the traces of vanished generations; these are but a millionth part of its treasures: the Sub-Consciousness were perhaps better likened to the property-room and scene-dock of the Great Cosmic ❋ Israel Zangwill (1895)
Last of all, he had seen what to avoid -- not merely in his editing of Strutt's _Queenhoo Hall_ (a valuable property-room for the novel, but nothing of a real novel), but in his reading of the failures of his predecessors and contemporaries. ❋ George Saintsbury (1889)
Observing that the grave-digger in his too eager realism was damaging the thing -- the marks of his pick and spade are visible on the cranium -- Edwin Booth presently replaced it with a papier-mache counterfeit manufactured in the property-room of the theatre. ❋ Thomas Bailey Aldrich (1871)
Papias had sent all his assistants and even his slaves off the premises; he received the breathless Pollux quite alone, and took from him, with icy calmness, the things which had been borrowed from his property-room, asking for them one by one. ❋ Georg Ebers (1867)
