"He's got another costume fer the afterpiece," she thought admiringly. From Wordnik.com. [Amarilly of Clothes-line Alley] Reference
The afterpiece, "The Lime Kiln Club," was quite a pretentious affair for. From Wordnik.com. [Watch Yourself Go By] Reference
She disgraced herself, acting the part with her hair dressed for 'Lady Racket' in the afterpiece. From Wordnik.com. [The Beaux-Stratagem] Reference
Ada Rehan played "The Wife of Socrates" as an afterpiece. From Wordnik.com. [My day : reminiscences of a long life,] Reference
You may treat yourself at Blois to a very cheerful afterpiece. From Wordnik.com. [A Little Tour of France] Reference
The tragedy of the gallows was followed by a short afterpiece. From Wordnik.com. [The Book of the Bush Containing Many Truthful Sketches Of The Early Colonial Life Of Squatters, Whalers, Convicts, Diggers, And Others Who Left Their Native Land And Never Returned] Reference
The last trait I have to mention, yet more significant, is the afterpiece. From Wordnik.com. [The Ancient Regime] Reference
She did not act in the afterpiece, and Godolphin escorted her home to the inn. From Wordnik.com. [Godolphin, Complete] Reference
It was then reduced to an afterpiece, and was received with universal approbation. From Wordnik.com. [Biographia dramatica, or, A companion to the playhouse:] Reference
Dismissed from the Stranger, however, the stage-book probably reappears in the afterpiece. From Wordnik.com. [A Book of the Play Studies and Illustrations of Histrionic Story, Life, and Character] Reference
A play, with an appropriate afterpiece will be performed at the Academy on Tuesday evening the 3d of June. From Wordnik.com. [North Carolina Schools and Academies 1790-1840 A Documentary History] Reference
And in the pantomine that composed the afterpiece, they again saw her as Joan, and Avice as Columbine, along with Harlequin. From Wordnik.com. [Margaret] Reference
By Shakespeare's time, jigs were established in the London theatres as the standard afterpiece to more serious theatrical fare. From Wordnik.com. [A New Start] Reference
As for my young hostess, I knew she looked more gratified with my song than with the afterpiece, and that I felt to be something. From Wordnik.com. [Satanstoe] Reference
She hoped the afterpiece would be of the same general character, that they might all enjoy it as much as they had the play itself. From Wordnik.com. [Satanstoe] Reference
On Tuesday evening will be exhibited the celebrated play "Who Wants a Guinea?" with an appropriate afterpiece entitled "Raising the Wind.". From Wordnik.com. [North Carolina Schools and Academies 1790-1840 A Documentary History] Reference
After a brief interval for refreshments, liberally proffered, a comic afterpiece, "Mr. Nightingale's Diary," was given with far greater spirit. From Wordnik.com. [Glances at Europe In a Series of Letters from Great Britain, France, Italy, Switzerland, &c. During the Summer of 1851.] Reference
She was to perform in the afterpiece -- her low boddice and short scarlet petticoat displaying the most perfect symmetry of form and roundness of proportion. From Wordnik.com. [The Confessions of Harry Lorrequer — Complete] Reference
Mrs. Lee naturally took no part in this afterpiece, but there is a smart epilogue, 'spoken by Mrs. Mary Lee, when she was out of Humour,' which commences. From Wordnik.com. [The Works of Aphra Behn, Volume II] Reference
In 1757 he wrote a popular afterpiece, entitled “The Reprisals; or, the Tars of. From Wordnik.com. [Poems] Reference
"Me a-trying to get the lines of that new afterpiece in my head -- chock-full of business, too!. From Wordnik.com. [That Girl Montana] Reference
Such was the burlesque that was played, they tell us, as the afterpiece to the tragedy of Crassus’s expedition. From Wordnik.com. [The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans] Reference
For afterpiece an opera was given. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter III. Book II] Reference
"Oh! And what about the afterpiece?". From Wordnik.com. [That Girl Montana] Reference
This day we had the afterpiece of the debauch. From Wordnik.com. [In the South Seas] Reference
The afterpiece?. From Wordnik.com. [Something Else Again] Reference
1757 he wrote a popular afterpiece, entitled "The Reprisals; or, the. From Wordnik.com. [Poetical Works of Johnson, Parnell, Gray, and Smollett With Memoirs, Critical Dissertations, and Explanatory Notes] Reference
"To the devil with the afterpiece!. From Wordnik.com. [That Girl Montana] Reference
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