"Bah, where's your spirit, play-actor?" he jeered.    From Wordnik.com.  [Royal Flash]

'A play-actor! 'cried the mother, who was back again.    From Wordnik.com.  [Despair's Last Journey] Reference

From being the prince I was become play-actor Flashy again.    From Wordnik.com.  [Royal Flash]

"This is the kind of play-actor John would make a soldier of," said the.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gilian The Dreamer His Fancy, His Love and Adventure] Reference

"Close thing that time, play-actor," says he, pausing to brush the hair out of his eyes.    From Wordnik.com.  [Royal Flash]

This gentleman subsequently became a 'play-actor,' but failed to achieve the success he desired.    From Wordnik.com.  [Charles Dickens and Music] Reference

Has it never occured to any of you that the point about Shakeseare's Richard is that he is a play-actor.    From Wordnik.com.  [Smoking Guns and the Morality of Parliamentary Privilege] Reference

As to being a play-actor, confound it, I hate the very word; you need not think anything about your size.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor, Vol. I, No. 4, April 1810] Reference

In his capacity of a play-actor, he had been hissed from the stage at Lyons, and the door to revenge was now open.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fox's Book of Martyrs Or A History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Triumphant Deaths of the Primitive Protestant Martyrs] Reference

You're a play-actor with a gift for staging yourself and you're as hungry for the limelight as a circus girl in spangles.    From Wordnik.com.  [Kenny] Reference

I was near gettin 'the sack not long ago because a couple o' tramps or play-actor folks over-persuaded me to give them a lift.    From Wordnik.com.  [Two Little Travellers A Story for Girls] Reference

"You never told me you were a play-actor," he growled.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Lady of Loyalty House A Novel] Reference

"It's the play-actor!" cried he, slashing at my cudgel.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Prisoner of Zenda: being the history of three months in the life of an English gentleman] Reference

And I did not love to hear Rupert call me a play-actor.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Prisoner of Zenda: being the history of three months in the life of an English gentleman] Reference

"You don't desire my blood, then, most forgiving play-actor?".    From Wordnik.com.  [Rupert of Hentzau] Reference

"Yes; as pretty a morning to hang a play-actor on as ever I saw.".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Gentleman A Romance of the Sea] Reference

ORTS, commonly know as FRANCIS VANBINGHAM, a dissolute play-actor.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gallantry Dizain des Fetes Galantes] Reference

"The sceptres and crowns of those play-actor emperors," said Sancho.    From Wordnik.com.  [The History of Don Quixote, Volume 2, Complete] Reference

She, who all her life had spurned the play-actor as she would a reptile.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Northern Light] Reference

It was just as if he had been a play-actor man, spouting Douglas's tragedy.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Life of Mansie Wauch tailor in Dalkeith] Reference

He had been a play-actor before the war and knew how to conceal his identity.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lights and Shadows in Confederate Prisons A Personal Experience, 1864-5] Reference

"I have been a play-actor and know how to stage a pair of gabies to the show.".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Lady of Loyalty House A Novel] Reference

She was a play-actor to the roots of her being, Cora was, and she started and stared.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Torch and Other Tales] Reference

She make a fool de my name like the play-actor that do the monkey tricks on the stage?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Californians] Reference

Emerson was an essayist and a lecturer, as Shakespeare was a dramatist and a play-actor.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ralph Waldo Emerson]

"Because I was a play-actor once," he shouted, "when I was a sweet-and-twenty youngling.".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Lady of Loyalty House A Novel] Reference

"Henry, you look like a play-actor," announced Aunt Em, looking at her husband critically.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Emerald City of Oz] Reference

Athalia's mother, who had been the "play-actor," had left her children an example of duty.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Way to Peace] Reference

'Losh save us, laddie,' said McIntosh, irritably, 'you're as fu' o 'fine wards as a play-actor.    From Wordnik.com.  [Madame Midas] Reference

Mr. Greyle, mister, says that he has no recollection whatever of meeting this play-actor person in.    From Wordnik.com.  [Scarhaven Keep] Reference

Officials sometimes believe that footballers of great flair have a play-actor waiting to break out.    From Wordnik.com.  [Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph] Reference

He reduced himself to a social play-actor -- and always had to pose in his particular rôle -- the Noble Poet.    From Wordnik.com.  [Vixen, Volume III.] Reference

Perhaps they knew a play-actor of minor rank had disappeared, but did not regard him as the author of his Works.    From Wordnik.com.  [What Is Man? and Other Essays] Reference

A play-actor -- a stage-player! "he repeated to himself;" that would have deserved a stab, but that Craigengelt's a coward.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Bride of Lammermoor] Reference