1 To think only of the licence which every rehearsal must tend to create.
2 Maria, she also thought, acted well, too well; and after the first rehearsal or two, Fanny began to be their only audience; and sometimes as prompter, sometimes as spectator, was often very useful.
3 Tom was enjoying such an advance towards the end; Edmund was in spirits from the morning's rehearsal, and little vexations seemed everywhere smoothed away.
4 To own the truth, Sir Thomas, we were in the middle of a rehearsal when you arrived this evening.
5 Your cousin came too; and we had a rehearsal.
6 The choice of Captain Vye's fuelhouse as the scene of rehearsal was dictated by the fact that his dwelling was nearly in the centre of the heath.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContext Highlight In BOOK 2: 4 Eustacia Is Led on to an Adventure 7 Seven o'clock, the hour of the rehearsal, came round, and in a short time Eustacia could hear voices in the fuelhouse.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContext Highlight In BOOK 2: 4 Eustacia Is Led on to an Adventure 8 The audience behaved indecorously, as if the concert were an informal dress rehearsal.
9 It reminded her of a bad rehearsal.
10 There was an evening when Carol hoped she was going to make a play; a rehearsal during which Guy stopped looking abashed.
11 "Fellow ought to be prompt at rehearsals," they all agreed.
12 It was at rehearsals that the quarrrels broke.
13 No one understood that rehearsals were as real engagements as bridge-games or sociables at the Episcopal Church.
14 Ecclesford and its theatre, with its arrangements and dresses, rehearsals and jokes, was his never-failing subject, and to boast of the past his only consolation.
15 It surprised him to see that the play which he had known at rehearsals for a disjointed lifeless thing had suddenly assumed a life of its own.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James JoyceContext Highlight In Chapter 2