1 Now the curtain had been rung down forever, the footlights dimmed and the audience suddenly vanished, while the stunned old actor remained on his empty stage, waiting for his cues.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret MitcheGet Context In CHAPTER XXVI 2 No, I suddenly found myself on the curtain, an actor, posturing and making futile gestures.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret MitcheGet Context In CHAPTER XXXI 3 But the fact is that at the motion-pictures she discovered herself laughing as heartily as Kennicott at the humor of an actor who stuffed spaghetti down a woman's evening frock.
4 Mr. Schnarken was at various high moments a cook, a life-guard, a burlesque actor, and a sculptor.
Main Street By Sinclair LewisGet Context In CHAPTER XVI 5 Carol hinted that the play would be improved by cutting, but as every actor except Vida and Guy and herself wailed at the loss of a single line, she was defeated.
Main Street By Sinclair LewisGet Context In CHAPTER XVIII 6 He's so good an actor that he convinces his own self.
Main Street By Sinclair LewisGet Context In CHAPTER XXIII 7 If you didn't want to use me as an actor, I'd love to design the costumes.
Main Street By Sinclair LewisGet Context In CHAPTER XXVIII 8 On the screen, in the role of a composer, appeared an actor called Eric Valour.
Main Street By Sinclair LewisGet Context In CHAPTER XXXVIII 9 It must have been a young man, and an active one, too, besides being an incomparable actor.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan DoyleGet Context In PART I: CHAPTER V. OUR ADVERTISEMENT BRINGS A VISITOR 10 And she was a thorough good sort, making him feel less of an audience, more of an actor, going round the Barn in her wake.
Between the Acts (1941) By Virginia WoolfGet Context In Unit 8 11 As far as she could judge, Mr. Crawford was considerably the best actor of all: he had more confidence than Edmund, more judgment than Tom, more talent and taste than Mr. Yates.
Mansfield Park By Jane AustenGet Context In CHAPTER XVIII 12 She did not like him as a man, but she must admit him to be the best actor, and on this point there were not many who differed from her.
Mansfield Park By Jane AustenGet Context In CHAPTER XVIII 13 The stage lost a fine actor, even as science lost an acute reasoner, when he became a specialist in crime.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan DoyleGet Context In I. A Scandal in Bohemia 14 When an actor I had, of course, learned all the secrets of making up, and had been famous in the green-room for my skill.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan DoyleGet Context In VI. THE MAN WITH THE TWISTED LIP 15 Prince Vasili always spoke languidly, like an actor repeating a stale part.
War and Peace(V1) By Leo TolstoyGet Context In BOOK 1: CHAPTER I