Bradford moved to amend by inserting the word supernumeraries, before the word commissaries. ❋ Mississippi. Legislature. House Of Representatives (1862)
Most members -- called "supernumeraries" -- are married, but their religious gatherings and retreats are sexually segregated. ❋ Unknown (2007)
Among the supernumeraries was a fat boy with a comical face. ❋ Daniel Frohman (1895)
I believed the theater employed regularly seven hundred persons in all its different departments, without reckoning the great number of what were called supernumeraries, who were hired by the night at Christmas, Easter, and on all occasions of any specially showy spectacle. ❋ Fanny Kemble (1851)
"supernumeraries" - people who were employed by the government but did no work and collected salaries every month. ❋ Unknown (1996)
"supernumeraries," but with special duties as our company ambulance corps, having charge, under the surgeon of the battalion, of our company litters and our other simple medical and surgical outfit. ❋ Unknown (1904)
It's what the supernumeraries, all the extras who populate the crowd scenes in works such as "Aida" and "Madame Butterfly," are chatting about while the stars in the foreground sing their hearts out about doomed love, or whatever. ❋ Ralph Gardner Jr. (2011)
Which raises the obvious question: What do supernumeraries do? ❋ Ralph Gardner Jr. (2011)
Especially after Richard Holmes , the administrator of supernumeraries, informed me, just before we mounted the two-story set behind the curtain where the cast was taking their first act bows that I couldn't wear my glasses onstage. ❋ Ralph Gardner Jr. (2011)
The theater was draped in plastic sheeting, and supernumeraries costumed as ushers intoned "Our venue is under construction" to entering audience members and asked for their names. ❋ Unknown (2011)
By contrast, the villain Ottone's hipster outfit, with small-brim fedora, and the two soldier supernumeraries' automatic weapons were not site-specific. ❋ Heidi Waleson (2011)
The tobogganing and ice-skating in the resort scenes in-line skates used through these skaters 'waltzes are sleighfuls of fun, but at other times Major has the supernumeraries battling with umbrellas in a storm or the uniformed Christine-Robert retainers romping around like extras in a two-reeler. ❋ David Finkle (2010)
The key conceit involved three distracting supernumeraries, costumed as superannuated footmen, who moved pieces of furniture around the stage during the arias, often pursuing the singers. ❋ Unknown (2010)
They are the same supernumeraries who always run around governments. ❋ Unknown (2009)
Of the old regime, Don Draper is the key man, with Bert Cooper and Roger Sterling in some danger of becoming supernumeraries. ❋ Unknown (2009)
Meanwhile, I never got the sense that the spiritual formation of supernumeraries was particularly impressive by comparison to, say, the pre-conciliar third orders. ❋ Unknown (2009)
The real members of the Work are the celibate members; that's why they are called numeraries, and the married members supernumeraries. ❋ Unknown (2009)
[today's] [profit's] are supernumerary. ❋ KillaS United (2005)
