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...“Prophete” in which we did just that, the mare’s steps performing a powerful ballet guided solely by my legs and the ribbon. Again I glared at the me... ...bers to prepare for the night’s performance. Overhead, I heard a beautiful male voice singing. This was not the first time: probably one of the 4... ...ladies from many different countries and could converse passably in German, Italian and English by the time I returned to Baincthuin. By the same to... ...cs a month. I could not even hold the bank account in my name as long as a male relative was available to manage the funds for me. It was a generou... ...ricks that I had taught Josephine over time. However, the remainder of the balletic freestyle dressage went well enough. I returned to the paddock t... ...ar. You must not miss it. And now, I must return backstage to my corps de ballet. I will see you soon, my friend.” When the second act began and ... ... dandy. I wondered how I would keep the neighborhood soubrettes and ballet dancers from beating down the door to get at my majordomo. Gilbert finall... ...clubs of Monmartre. I had never been to a follies and seen the singers and dancers there. Again, no one seemed at all shocked at a woman with two ... ...was grateful for the black weeds that held off potential suitors. I had no male guardian, and so was considered ripe spoils for the taking. It se...

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...to talk to him again." Yang Lin had told him that his father suspected all male callers and that Sang Huin would have to give a defense of his acqua... ...lination for a central government for governments are only needed to control malevolent men. When the scattered men unified for monthly reproductive s... ...y and that boy hadn't slipped away from the influence of the mother toward a male role model, she would have been branded a homosexual by one impact o... ...ich gave a blurred version of this other part of humanity; and of course the dancers, who were rather boring after a few minutes of seeing the ends of... ...ca.' He said, 'Oh, that's too long to wait. I like both of you. You're both Italian sweeties.' So then I invited him in. He kicked off his shoes, ru... ...oul were the traditional weddings at the Korean Folk Village and traditional dancers no longer on the street corners but contained in a theatre. He th... ...hours she was in a heavenly abyss greater than having the license to do some Italian stud fishing in the pool of her hotel. She loathed how the chemic... ...external reality she wanted to transpose to canvas, she became distracted by Italian lovers. Strangely, for her, she looked on them in joyful awe. Un... ... met at the zoo in front of the spider monkeys. From there they went to the ballet. At the ballet he spoke to her in Russian. She thought of it as ...

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...ily member abuse and in prisoner abuse and torture? When I was at Stanford, Dr. Zimbardo, who was a psychologist, recruited a couple of dozen male s... ...s certainly not a universal. Eleanor Roosevelt got hers from her brains, as did Marie Curie. But back to Ardrey. He gives many examples of how male a... ...on. Was it really just searching for orgasm? ―Some species are prepared to die for sex. The preying mantis bites off the head of its male m... ...ng situation. A driver may buckle the shoulder strap because there is always the possibility of an auto accident. I have heardthat 80% of Italia... ... type of work that one does, but often it revolves around academic interests, so the biological researcher or the carpenter with interests in ballet... ... If that doesn‘t happen they must find a new identity by identifying with the roots of their ancestors. Americans find comfort in their Irish, Italia... ...ltzers of the State Opera, the symphony of strings, the enthusiasm of the conductor and his audience. Then there was the Jerome Robbins modern ballet... ...s Fancy Free. Then there was Anna Pavlova in the Dying Swan and Rudolf Nureyev in Stone Flower. Sounds like many of my peaks were in opera and ballet... ...alth, the Norwegians and Americans had more money. It wasn‘t low taxes. Middle income Danes are in the 50% tax bracket. It isn‘t sunshine, the Italia...

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...e should he penetrate and split? Everythingness or Nothingness? He lost his male aggressiveness and confidence. As a result of his indecisiveness,... ...ch he could split all over again. In case you haven’t noticed; the Energy of male Impetus likes to penetrate things… and then go around and come ba... ... fast-slow, far-near, forward-back, degeneration, re-composition, life-death, male-female, in-out, positive polarity- negative polarity. The ... ...ot love the children of their masters more than their own children? Today: Italians are known as a culturally non-violent Nation… They are now on... ...w one of the most peaceful and fun- loving cultures in Europe. Try to find an Italian raised in Italy who is brave physically… try to find a fighter,... ...ch millionaire hostages for money began in Italy. The kidnappers thought the Italians were such cowards that they would cave in and pay the money w... ...amed of. You will see tackling rise to such a high art, that it will surpass ballet in its pure poetic beauty. You will see foot races, tumbles. …... ...vagant plumage and fancy birdlike costumes on stage, in movies, in operas, in ballet, in clubs. Human culture is obsessed with looking down upon th... ...e? What was the highest form of European culture for 100’s of years? It was ballet and opera. Singing like birds… humans trying to escape gravit...

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...landers -- Concerning their domestic customs 428- 435 CHAPTER XLII. The Female Dancers of Bolabola. -- A unique and pleasurable entertainment -- Costu... ...cers of Bolabola. -- A unique and pleasurable entertainment -- Costumes of the dancers -- First conflict with New Zealanders -- Killing of a chief -- ... ...e continent. The statement was true. There were Portuguese, and Spaniards, and Italians, a few Frenchmen from Marseilles and Lyons, a few Dutchmen fro... ...emale of which is superstitiously believed to lay her eggs on the back of the male who flies about with them until they are hatched; he watched the p... ...y personal jealousy; second, that the sailors, most of whom were Portuguese or Italians, were warmly devoted to himself and would show the fact were a... ...unteers for desperate service. The Spaniards hung back, but the Portuguese and Italian sailors came forward with alacrity and volunteered for any duty... ...s usually their custom. As soon as they occupied the city, they seized all the male population and locked them Tip in the churches, then issued a proc... ...h from the outside. "As soon as one of the family had been selected all of the male members were looked upon as devoted to the same horrid purpose. It... ...to display the astonishingly variety of their movements. "To this grand female ballet succeeded one performed by fifteen men. Some of them were old; b...

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...nner, and will re- turn about three o’clock to dress, if she dances in the ballet this evening—as she will, to-day being Monday. This rat is already a... ...s—hope.” “Who produces the rat?” asked Gazonal. “Porters, paupers, actors, dancers,” replied Bixiou. “Only the lowest depths of poverty could force a ... ...p on brandy—but it killed her in the end. Another thing! You have seen the ballet, and you’ll now see it defiling past you in its every-day clothes, w... ... where they want danseuses; she has not succeeded in the three towns where ballets are given; she has not had the money, or perhaps the desire to go t... ...ow that the great school of dancing in Paris supplies the whole world with male and female danc- ers. Thus a rat who becomes a marcheuse,—that is to s... ...you have a tuft which must be conquered.) A Jew proposed to supply me with Italian cantatrices who, during the interludes, were to depilate the young ...

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...stopped to eye the landscape; possibly also to get their breath. They were Italians. Two were fair- haired muscular men, bronzed by the sun and roughl... ...been at home in the fashionable Corso. His face was of the sweetest virile Italian beauty. The head was long, like a hawk’s, not too lean, and not sha... ...nd-by.” It was the autumn antecedent to that memorable Spring of the great Italian uprising, when, though for a tragic issue, the people of Italy firs... ...’s bet?” The allusion was to a black incident con- cerning a young Italian ballet girl who had been carried off by an Austrian officer, under the pret... ...it more than they disliked it, called their female foes Amazons, and their male by a less complimentary title, and so waited for the patriotic epidemi... ...le of faith with the Austrian military that noth- ing save terror of their males kept sweet Italian women from the expression of their preference for ... ...and standing together they swayed like two im- perfectly jolly fellows, or ballet bandits, each plucking at the other, until at last the maddening lau... ...ly turning toward Royalty. Great excuses are to be made for this, the last male descen- dant, whose father in his youth had been an Imperial page, and... ...ly there is mad dancing; it catches at the nerves. “Andreas! Andreas!” the dancers shouted to encourage the player. Some danced with vine-poles; partn...

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..., to abstain from the discus sion of any such questions with any order of Italians, so I would rather not enter on the inquiry now. During my twelve ... ... of some great theatre, and the curtain had just run up, for a picturesque ballet. And there is the cathedral to boot: scene like: all grim, and swart... ...onstantly lying down, and surfeiting them selves with vine leaves—perfect Italian cows enjoying the Dolce Far’ Niente all day long. They are presided... ...treets are as narrow as any thor oughfare can well be, where people (even Italian people) are supposed to live and walk about; being mere lanes, with... ...gigantic, and almost blots out an actor. They usually play a comedy, and a ballet. The comic man in the comedy I saw one summer night, is a waiter in ... ...ld be so tedious. It is the triumph of art. 46 Pictures from Italy In the ballet, an Enchanter runs away with the Bride, in the very hour of her nupt... ...tared at again, without let or hindrance. The body of the room was full of male strangers; the crowd immense; the heat very great; and the pressure so... ...s to remind them that he took the money. The majority were country people, male and female. There were four or five Jesuit priests, however, and some ... ...is very high) then rose up, and stretched out its tiny arms, while all the male spectators in the square uncovered, and some, but not by any means the...

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...upon the floor, and regarding me in silence with embarrassing eyes. The eyes of all Polynesians are large, luminous, and melting; they are like the ey... ...fresh ac- quaintances with favour, but continually modified my judg- ment. A polite Englishman comes to-day to the Marquesans and is amazed to find th... ...id, is uppermost in the mind of the Marquesan. It would be strange if it were oth- erwise. The race is perhaps the handsomest extant. Six feet is abou... ...main, if there were spirit to support or to revive them. At the last feast of the Bastille, Stanislao Moanatini shed tears when he beheld the inani- m... ...tted. They must not sit on the paepae; they must not go up to it by the stair; they must not eat pork; they must not approach a boat; they must not co... ...e bell agoing in the small belfry; and the faithful, who were not very numerous, gathered to prayers. I was once present: it was the Lord’s day, and s... ...not very often join in the performance, but stood disengaged at the back part of the stage, and looked (in Ridi, necklace, and dressed hair) for all t... ...ng and ogling, and the strange rhythmic gestures, and strange, rapturous, frenzied faces with which the best of the male dancers held us spellbound th... ...land audience roared with laughter and applause. This filled up the mea- sure for the rival company, and they forgot themselves and decency. After eac...

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...at all, and consequently they lost the satirical man, and were called ‘the ballet-dancers’ by Adela which thorny scoff her sisters per- mitted to pass... ... and consequently they lost the satirical man, and were called ‘the ballet-dancers’ by Adela which thorny scoff her sisters per- mitted to pass about ... ...ught the ear of Night, and sang confident of her charm. It was a grand old Italian air, requiring severity of tone and power. Now into great mournful ... ...n a tone of vexed apology for strange ignorance: “But I know not it? It is Italian—yes, I swear it is Italian! But— who then? It is superbe! But I kno... ...ttention to his sisters’ refined conversation that he formed part of their male escort to the place of worship. Mr. Pericles met the church-goers on t... ...thing. I have your permission to smoke?” Emilia smiled. “I wish I had some Italian cigars to give you. My father sometimes has plenty given to him.” W... ...f a momentary shame to them, rather a sign of promise than not) the gentle male need not be deeply fascinated. Lady Charlotte was not a fascinating pe... ...d the ladies, when alarm and suspicion had subsided. Fear of some wretched male baseness on the part of their brother was happily diverted by a letter... ...her smile when Captain Gambier unexpectedly appeared and walked across the dancers to sit beside her. She asked him why he had come from London: to wh...

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...e said, one only daughter. His wife dying in 1670, and leaving him without male children, he determined, however much he might be afflicted at the los... ...ney, created Peer of France in 1581. It was a peerage which, in default of male successors, went to the female, but this descendant was not heir to it... ...lept at the Pont Beauvosin that night, and on the mor- row parted with her Italian attendants without shedding a single tear. On the 4th of November s... ...he died a few years after. The King at this time drove away the company of Italian actors, and would not permit another in its place. So long as the I... ...resentations, given con- secutively on account of the gain it brought, the Italians re- ceived orders to close their theatre and to quit the realm in ... ...inals gave rise to. The Bouillons wished to be recognised as descended, by male issue, of the Counts of Auvergne, and to claim all kinds of distinctio... ...ity, and of sweet recollections of his early years, his grace at fetes and ballets, his splendid gallantries, wished that the King, in imitation of th... ...hed that the King, in imitation of the deceased monarch, should dance in a ballet. It was a little too early to think of this. This plea- sure seemed ... ... were admitted simply for the purpose of adding strength and beauty to the ballet, by the grace of their faces and the el- egance of their movements, ...

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...o led me to understand the marvelous framework of ideas on which the great Italian poet built his poem, the only work which the moderns can place by t... ...rms of the French army and civil officials. The 31 Balzac Emperor, a true Italian in his love of dress, had overlaid the coats of all his servants wi... ...t Robert le Diable was to be given at the Opera. Josepha, who had left the Italian Opera six months since for the French Opera, was to take the part o... ...mons—went back to release his son and Celestine from their duties. All the dancers, for the most part strangers, had taken possession of the territory... ...few exceptions, who ought to be rewarded with the Montyon prize, the cook, male or female, is a domestic rob- ber, a thief taking wages, and perfectly... ...omen. She turned sharply round to return to Lisbeth at the tea-table. This ballet-dancer’s pir- ouette, whisking her skirts, by which she had overthro... ...are equally applicable to any lady-killing rake; he is, in fact, a sort of male courtesan. Valerie’s last fancy was a madness; above all, she was bent... ... in sorrows, he has neglected her for prostitutes, for street-hussies, for ballet- girls, actresses—Cadine, Josepha, Marneffe!—And that is the brother... ...n Betty comes up from the third cellar at the touch of a fairy’s wand in a ballet-extravaganza. After finishing what he had to do at the Courts, Victo...

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...lows who might have stepped out of the pages of Honore de Balzac; members, male and female, of the pro- fessions which make their profit of the frailt... ... had become infatuated with a French dancer, whom he had first seen in the ballet at the Empire, and had accompanied her to Paris. I could not find ou... ...hed picture on an easel. I gave a little start. He was painting a group of Italian peas- ants, in the costume of the Campagna, lounging on the steps o... ...resist dis- playing his work. He brought out a picture of two curly-headed Italian urchins playing marbles. “Aren’t they sweet?” said Mrs. Stroeve. An... ... their modest fare. Dirk Stroeve flattered himself on his skill in cooking Italian dishes, and I confess that his spaghetti were very much better than... ...in Strickland’s face. Strickland seized his glass and flung it at him. The dancers stopped suddenly still. There was an instant of complete silence, b... ...am and Eve — que sais-je? — it was a hymn to the beauty of the human form, male and female, and the praise of Nature, sublime, indifferent, lovely , a...

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...n short, on the consciousness of your heroine’s satellites, especially the male; make it an interest contributive only to the greater one. See, at all... ...ained for some days a mystery. Isabel remembered perfectly the neat little male child whose hair smelt of a delicious cos- metic and who had a bonne a... ...interrupted her journey to pay a visit to her son, who at San Remo, on the Italian shore of the Mediterranean, had been spending a dull, bright winter... ... overhung the slope of its hill and the long valley of the Arno, hazy with Italian colour. It had a narrow garden, in the manner of a terrace, product... ...d; and the tall iron lattices admitted on occasion more than enough of the Italian sunshine. It was moreover a seat of ease, indeed of luxury, telling... ...rves him right if you have,” said Henrietta while the curtain rose for the ballet. Isabel saw no more of her attributive victim for the next twenty-fo... ... deplorable degree the quality known and esteemed in the appearance of fe- males as style; and that if she is dressed with great fresh- ness she wears... ...e’s dancing,” said Isabel. “You’ll see her somewhere.” He looked among the dancers and at last caught Pansy’s 454 The Portrait of a Lady eye. “She se...

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...unt O’Reilly, Who took Algiers, declares I used him vilely? ‘Did not the Italian Musico Cazzani Sing at my heart six months at least in vain? ... ... that I know by this: That is, some words of Spanish, Turk, and Greek, Italian not at all, having no teachers; Much English I cannot pretend t... ... or present situation. He saw some fellow captives, who appear’d To be Italians, as they were in fact; From them, at least, their destiny he h... ...e Cicogna From an old Roman princess at Bologna. ‘And then there are the dancers; there ‘s the Nini, With more than one profession, gains by a... ... It seems when this allotment was made out, There chanced to be an odd male, and odd female, Who (after some discussion and some doubt, If... ...ter some discussion and some doubt, If the soprano might be deem’d to be male, They placed him o’er the women as a scout) Were link’d togeth... ...him o’er the women as a scout) Were link’d together, and it happen’d the male Was Juan, — who, an awkward thing at his age, Pair’d off with a ... ...oting indispensable; He danced without theatrical pretence, Not like a ballet master in the van Of his drill’d nymphs, but like a gentleman. B... ...metimes, though seldom—sages never; But speakers, bards, diplomatists, and dancers, Little that ‘s great, but much of what is clever; Most ora...

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...emained for some days a mystery. Isabel remembered perfectly the neat little male child whose hair smelt of a delicious cosmetic and who had a bonne a... ...e interrupted her journey to pay a visit to her son, who at San Remo, on the Italian shore of the Mediterranean, had been spending a dull, bright wint... ...la overhung the slope of its hill and the long valley of the Arno, hazy with Italian colour. It had a narrow garden, in the man ner of a terrace, pro... ...ind; and the tall iron lattices admitted on occasion more than enough of the Italian sunshine. 188 Portrait of a Lady It was moreover a seat of ease,... ...serves him right if you have,” said Henrietta while the curtain rose for the ballet. 250 Portrait of a Lady Isabel saw no more of her attributive vic... ...She’s dancing,” said Isabel. “You’ll see her somewhere.” He looked among the dancers and at last caught Pansy’s eye. “She sees me, but she won’t notic...

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...ssion that opinions were free, to ex- press that opinion to several of his male and female custom- ers as he served them in the grocery. The citoyenne... ...ious li- quors, Giroudeau pointed out to Philippe a plump and agile little ballet-girl whom he called Florentine, whose good graces and affection, tog... ...ig stom- ach, a face like a ploughman, and a nose like a potato, can get a ballet-girl, I ought to be the lover of the first actress in Paris. Where d... ...s, we fre- quently meet with men so fascinated with actresses, singers, or ballet-dancers, that they are willing to become directors of a theatre out ... ...re- quently meet with men so fascinated with actresses, singers, or ballet-dancers, that they are willing to become directors of a theatre out of love... ...is no opposition of social forces, such as that to which the cities of the Italian States in the Middle Ages owed their vitality. There are no longer ... ...le grand master, to pro- cure clandestinely, each one of you, twenty rats, male or fe- male as heaven pleases. Collect your contingent within three da... ...off. After squandering the fortunes of two En- glishmen, a Russian, and an Italian prince, Mademoiselle Esther is now in poverty; give her ten thousan...

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...stormy excitement, and the third syllable is concluded. There was a little ballet, “Le Rossignol,” in which Montessu and Noblet used to be famous in t... ...ing his verse, of which he was a skilful writer, to the pretty airs of the ballet. It was dressed in old French costume, and little Lord Southdown now... ...h he has sold you. Innocent, by —! Y ou’re as innocent as your mother, the ballet-girl, and your husband the bully. Don’t think to frighten me as you ... ...al, and was waiting for her husband in the adjoining dining-room, with fe- male instinct, auguring evil. The door of the dining-room hap- pened to be ... ...e of all ages and ranks, and consorted with generals, dog-fanciers, opera- dancers, bruisers, and every kind of person, in a word, was resting himself... ...g for toffy, and used to be birched at Eton. So they went on talking about dancers, fights, drinking, demireps, until Macmurdo came down and joined th... ...daughters even, may remember how uncommonly agreeable gentlemen are to the male relations when they are courting the females; and per- 83 Thackeray h... ...n, and whether they was fit to sit on a box before a lady?” Jos’s friends, male and female, suddenly became interested about Emmy, and cards of condol... ...too, knew some ladies here and there—French widows, dubious 159 Thackeray Italian countesses, whose husbands had treated them ill—faugh —what shall w...

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...again. His whole 21 Frank Norris rude idea of life had to be changed. The male virile desire in him tardily awakened, aroused itself, strong and brut... ...hy, suddenly seized with a fear of him, the intuitive feminine fear of the male. McTeague could only repeat the same thing over and over again. Trina,... ...llowed by “The Lamont Sisters, Winnie and Violet, serio-comiques and skirt dancers.” And after this came a great array of other “artists” and “special... ...nary woke and chittered crossly, his feathers puffed out; the husks of ta- males littered the floor; the stone pug dog sitting before the little stove... ... the upper deck as the boat started, and sat down to listen to the band of Italian mu- sicians who were playing outside this morning because of the fi... ...apers and had pasted up fig- ures cut out from the posters of some Kiralfy ballet, very gaudy. By the one window, chittering all day in its little gil...

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...rs. Crump sat in a little bar, profusely orna- mented with pictures of the dancers of all ages, from Hillisberg, Rose, Parisot, who plied the light fa... ...nfluence of great men; he was an agent for half-a-dozen theatrical people, male 13 Thackeray and female, and had the interests of the latter especial... ...to me, considering these things, it seemed that there were a hundred other male brutes squatted round about, and treated just as reasonably as Bottom ... ...orio of “Purgatorio,” which made such an immense sensa- tion, of songs and ballet-musics innumerable. He is a German by birth, and shows such an outra... ...ourse of study, nor, indeed, possible; for, between ourselves, none of the male Fitz- Boodles ever could sing a note, and the jargon of scales and sol... ... doubtful character), who sang no- where, but was always coming out at the Italian Opera. There was Lumley Limpiter (Lord Tweedledale’s son), one of t... ...essors conduct their academies on very opposite principles. Baroski writes ballet music; Thrum, on the contrary, says “he cannot but deplore the dange...

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...dy, I shall have the hap- piness of finding names already dear to your old Italian romancers among those of women whom we love, and to whose memory I ... ... Caryatides which the architects of the Middle Ages intro- duced into some Italian palaces, remotely imitated in those of the front of the Porte-Saint... ...y. And observe how immeasurably more imposing was the life of Mazarin, the Italian cardinal, than that of Richelieu, the French cardinal. Richelieu me... ... rose in life, require an answer, but even benevolent curiosity—as much as malevolent curiosity—went on from one inquiry to another, and found more th... ... than that he had hitherto pursued—to give a sum of money to some Frontin, male or female, to act and think for him. Madame de Saint-Esteve alone coul... ...uring the second act, there was quite a commotion in the box where the two dancers were sitting, caused by the undoubted identity of the unknown fair ... ... than if she were alone. Philippe Bridau hurried back to the box where the dancers were sitting, and informed them of the state of affairs. “Oh! so it... ...tering La Force, a prison situated between the Rue Payenne and the Rue des Ballets, where he was placed in solitary confinement. The Abbe Carlos Herre... ...ical feeling—the Marechale d’Ancre and the Queen of France, Semblancay and Malesherbes, Damien and Danton, Desrues and Castaing. Fouquier-Tinville’s p...

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...does leave a disconsolate family to mourn his loss; so in academies of the male and female sex it occurs every now and then that the pupil is fully wo... ...d gentleman was born), rector of Crawley-cum-Snailby, and of various other male and female members of the Crawley family. Sir Pitt was first married t... ...ders of the poor little blubbering wretches, and Sir Pitt, seeing that the malefactors were in custody, drove on to the hall. All the servants were re... ...d the rudiments of Hebrew; in mathematics and history; in Spanish, French, Italian, and geography; in music, vocal and instrumental; in dancing, witho... ...n full view of the jealous opera-glass opposite. And when the time for the ballet came (in which there was no dancer that went through her grimaces or... ...ll this excursion, she condescended to say civil things to him: she quoted Italian and French poetry to the poor bewildered lad, and persisted that he... ...which he found himself, in a house full of old women, jabbering French and Italian, and talking poetry to him. “Reglarly up a tree, by jingo!” exclaim... ...stormy excitement, and the third syllable is concluded. There was a little ballet, “Le Rossignol,” in which Montessu and Noblet used to be famous in t... ...ing his verse, of which he was a skilful writer, to the pretty airs of the ballet. It was dressed in old French costume, and little Lord Southdown now...

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...ng and nuzzling at the flanks of the deep-sea tramps, while hay barges and Italian whitehalls came and went at every turn. A Stock- ton River boat wen... ...oks, a chest or two, and a flaring picture cut from the advertisement of a ballet, was the room’s inven- tory in the matter of furniture and ornament.... ...passivity as though he wore a mask, and for an instant allowing the wicked malevolent Cantonese to come to the surface, “China boy no likee funnee bus... ...ting their gloves and breaking their fans in their enthusiasm; while every male dancer on the floor— ensigns in their gold-faced uniforms and “rovers”... ... with pitch, and all manner of the dirt of an uncared-for ship. And as the dancers of the cotillon pressed about, and a hundred kid-gloved hands stret...

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...er to imply her differences in sensibility and re- sponse from the hardier male. Her hesitation marked the full gravity of her reply. “It’s just that,... ...med to him that perhaps after all it was as well to let fruit- growers and Italians deal with singing-birds in their own way. Perhaps after all they h... ...e aim- ing to shock and yet it had its standards, but here it was that the dancers and actresses and forgiven divorcees came in — and the bishops as a... ...hole collection of pretty costume plates into the mysteries of the “Ussian Ballet” and the works of Mousso’gski and “Imsky Ko’zakof.” The bishop liked...

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...versation. This is a species of dignity in which the high-bred British fe- male reigns supreme. To watch the behaviour of a fine lady to other and hum... ...n full view of the jealous opera-glass opposite. And when the time for the ballet came (in which there was no dancer that went through her grimaces or... ...nd gambling- table; all previous loves and courtships of milliners, opera- dancers, and the like easy triumphs of the clumsy military Ado- nis, were q... ...ll this excursion, she condescended to say civil things to him: she quoted Italian and French poetry to the poor bewildered lad, and persisted that he... ...which he found himself, in a house full of old women, jabbering French and Italian, and talking poetry to him. “Reglarly up a tree, by jingo!” exclaim... ...ace all the females of the establishment in mourning; and desired that the male servants should be similarly attired in deep black. All parties and en... ...y handsome. But wherever she went she touched and charmed every one of the male sex, as invariably as she awakened the scorn and incredulity of her ow...

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...f Illyria. “I have already drawn it,” says I, “with my spurs.” “Malheur et malediction!” roared the Marshal. “Hadn’t you better settle your wig?” says... ...f my whiskers gone; whereas at the same moment, and shriek- ing a horrible malediction, my adversary reeled and fell. “Mon Dieu, il est mort!” cried N... ...ving heart had nothing to cling to. Her splendid mansion was a convent; no male person even entered it, except Franklin Fox, (who counted for nothing,... ...Mr. Mills, my rivle in Halbany; Mr. Macauly, (who wrote that sweet book of ballets, ‘The Lays of Hancient Rum;’) & the great Mr. Rodgers himself. “The... ...rom one to twenty-four: the day Mac landed at Naples his repeater rung the Italian hours, from one to twenty-four; as soon as he crossed the Alps it o... ... the ices and macaroons. I looked out for my pretty Jemimarann amongst the dancers, and saw her tearing round the room along with Baron Punter, in wha... ... they call it, comes the opera, which, as I am given to understand, is the Italian for singing. Why they should sing in Italian, I can’t conceive; or ... ...; and, law bless you! in three weeks from that time, she could look at the ballet as she would at a dancing-dog in the streets, 363 Burlesques and wo... ...o support her father, the Count, when he emigrated) a French dancer at the Italian Opera. French dancing, and Italian, therefore, we had at once, and ...

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...g and even anxious to have it made, and urged me to commence it at once. A male and a female nurse were in attendance; but I did not feel myself altog... ... seemed, at once, to take its flight from my body and a more than fiendish malevolence, gin-nurtured, thrilled every fibre of my frame. I took from my... ...ces of pleasure. There were buffoons, there were improvisatori, there were ballet-dancers, there were musicians, there was Beauty, there was wine. All... ...pleasure. There were buffoons, there were improvisatori, there were ballet-dancers, there were musicians, there was Beauty, there was wine. All these ... ...ted and even feared. He prided himself on his connoisseurship in wine. Few Italians have the true virtuoso spirit. For the most part their enthusiasm ... ...In this respect I did not differ from him materially: I was skilful in the Italian vintages myself, and bought largely whenever I could. It was about ... ...l gloom. The great clock of the Pi- azza had sounded the fifth hour of the Italian evening. The square of the Campanile lay silent and deserted, and t...

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...at moment Anna Pavlovna came up and, looking severely at Pierre, asked the Italian how he stood Rus- sian climate. The Italian’s face instantly change... ...he was very fine when he said that,” he remarked, re- peating the words in Italian: “‘Dio mi l’ha dato. Guai a chi la tocchi!’” “I hope this will prov... ...ruth when I say she’ll be a singer, a second Salomoni! W e have engaged an Italian to give her les- sons.” “Isn’t she too young? I have heard that it ... ... the count, with the hussar colonel on his left and Shinshin and the other male visitors on his right. Midway down the long table on one side sat the ... ...both with merry countenances. The count, with playful ceremony somewhat in ballet style, offered his bent arm to Marya Dmitrievna. He drew himself up,... ...Pavlograd commander. The com- manders met with polite bows but with secret malevo- lence in their hearts. “Once again, Colonel,” said the general, “I ... ...always happens when women lead lonely lives for any length of time without male society, on Anatole’s appearance all the three women of Prince Bolkons... ...t together.” And Natasha rose and went out of the room on tip- toe, like a ballet dancer, but smiling as only happy girls of fifteen can smile. When R... ...e was best. Having lifted her head and let her arms droop life- lessly, as ballet dancers do, Natasha, rising energetically from her heels to her toes...

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...istinctly perceptible. Lady Patterne sent a little Hebe down, skirting the dancers, for an accurate re- port of it; and even the inappreciative lips o... ...eg. Well, footmen and courtiers and Scottish Highlanders, and the corps de ballet, draymen too, have legs, and staring legs, shapely enough. But what ... ... cousin Willoughby. Be it said that the hour was four in the morning, when dancers must laugh at somebody, if only to refresh their feet, and the wit ... ...yes first of all men. She talked frankly of her cousins and friends, young males. She could have replied to his bitter wish: “Had you asked me on the ... ...ere and there, all around, she was yielding her hand to partners—obscurant males whose touch leaves a stain. Far too generally gracious was Her Starri... ...ay not be lasting. Applied to Sir Willoughby, as to thousands of civilized males, the touch- stone found him requiring to be dealt with by his betroth... ...strict for the strenuous exercise of her climbing powers because she loved Italian colour; and it seemed an exceedingly good reason to the genial imag... ...wakened in Mr. Whitford. “Though,” said he, abruptly, “you are not so much Italian as French.” She hoped she was English, she remarked. 112 The Egois... ...anked him, promising to depart immediately. “Now you are at the section of Italian literature, my love,” said Dr Middleton. “Well, Mr. Whitford, the l...

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...r any amount to sing the psalms better than all the children put together, male and female; and, in short, conducts himself in the most turbulent and ... ...ied too; and a happy release it was, both for herself and the old paupers, male and female, which she used to tip over in all directions, as if they w... ... perceived that the whole of the characters, including a numerous corps de ballet of boots and shoes in the background, into which we had been hastily... ...t’s what bothers me. ’ Here there was a considerable talking among the fe- males in the spencers. ‘What’s the ladies a laughing at, sir?’ inquired the... ... from the ground. Then there is your own pantomime in reply—quite a little ballet. Four cabs immediately leave the stand, for your especial accom- mod... ... the uncertainty that enveloped the birth and par- entage of its attendant dancers, the sweeps; and we did console ourselves with it, for many years. ... ... itself upon us; and we now proclaim to a deluded public, that the May-day dancers are not sweeps. The size of them, alone, is sufficient to repudiate... ...arden, to see two acts of a five- act play, and a new farce, perhaps, or a ballet, on which occasions the whole four of them went together: none of yo... ...ering of everything, and a knowledge of nothing; instruction in French and Italian, dancing lessons twice a-week; and other necessaries of life. The h...

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...rm; in the mean- ing which it may have borne long ago among the masters of Italian painting, and the fathers of Poetry in England; we say that we trac... ...hiefly in introducing him to a wider circle of German, French, English and Italian poetry. But the person who had the strongest effect on Goethe’s men... ...voted a great part of his time to a description of his travels, written in Italian, the copying and correction of which he slowly and accurately compl... ...n my formal Sunday clothes. I made gestures, and leaped, as I had seen the dancers do at the fair-theatre. In the midst of this I looked in the glass,... ...nch dancing-master, who was passing through the city. After the fashion of dancers, he was dressed in a close vest of red silk, which, ending in a sho... ...hought myself sufficiently well dressed; but it was not long before my fe- male friends, first by gentle raillery, then by sensible remon- strances, c... ...to her: for, in the first place, she never thought of emulating one of the male sex; and, sec- ondly, she believed, that, in regard to religious cultu... ...to her: for, in the first place, she never thought of emulating one of the male sex; and, secondly, she believed, that, in regard to religious culture... ... On the French theatre, likewise, I had seen from my youth upwards, if not ballets, yet pas seuls and pas de deux, and had noticed in them various str...

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... moment Anna Pavlovna came up and, looking se- verely at Pierre, asked the Italian how he stood Russian cli- mate. The Italian’s face instantly change... ...y he was very fine when he said that,” he remarked, repeating the words in Italian: “‘Dio mi l’ha dato. Guai a chi la tocchi!’” “I hope this will prov... ...truth when I say she’ll be a singer, a second Salomoni! We have engaged an Italian to give her lessons.” “Isn’t she too young? I have heard that it ha... ... the count, with the hussar colonel on his left and Shinshin and the other male visitors on his right. Midway down the long table on one 71 Tolstoy s... ... Pierre said, laughing and blushing: “Mamma told me to ask you to join the dancers.” “I am afraid of mixing the figures,” Pierre replied; “but if you ... ...th with merry counte- nances. The count, with playful ceremony somewhat in ballet style, offered his bent arm to Marya Dmitrievna. He drew him- self u...

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...s, all traders in muffins (or crumpets) of whatsoever description, whether male or female, boys or men, ringing hand-bells or otherwise,’ was moved by... ...maining; there were vicious-faced boys, brood- ing, with leaden eyes, like malefactors in a jail; and there were young creatures on whom the sins of t... ...rt?’ ‘Not for twenty thousand hemispheres populated with— with—with little ballet-dancers,’ replied Mantalini in a po- etical strain. ‘Then you will, ... ...ot for twenty thousand hemispheres populated with— with—with little ballet-dancers,’ replied Mantalini in a po- etical strain. ‘Then you will, if you ... ...llanbile, MP . Fifteen guineas, tea and sugar, and servants allowed to see male cousins, if godly. Note. Cold dinner in the kitchen on the Sabbath, Mr... ...d; the said horse being composed of a small wooden cylinder, not unlike an Italian iron, supported on four crooked pegs, and painted in inge- nious re... ...he might have been taken for an actress all ready for the first scene in a ballet, and only waiting for the drop curtain to go up. ‘Place chairs.’ The... ...ge and the Maiden,’ said Mrs Crummles. ‘Oh!’ said the manager, ‘the little ballet interlude. V ery good, go on. A little this way , if you please, Mr ... ...ith my son Nicholas at the time, and I had been very much frightened by an Italian image boy that very morning. In fact, it was quite a mercy, ma’am,’...

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... the water again, and ask who has associated himself most closely with the Italian peasantry and the bandits of the Pyrenees? When the traveller enter... ... of 25S. extending over a period of five years, entitles a subscriber—if a male—to an annuity of 16 pounds a year, and a female to 12 pounds a year. N... ...hin the scope of its benevolence are all actors and actresses, singers, or dancers, of five years’ standing in the profession. To relieve their ne ce... ...nner, Drury Lane is conducted now with almost a sole view to the opera and ballet, insomuch that the statue of Shakespeare over the door serves as em ... ...ses for mathematics, logic, gram mar, music, French, German, Spanish, and Italian, attended by upwards of five hundred persons; but, best and first o... ...r sitters, to idle pens, unchecked reckless rumours, and undenounced lying malevolence. Charles Dickens 194 I cannot forbear, before I resume my seat...

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... be, big or little, passionate or passionless, lasting or passing (he kept a ballet girl himself, though he was the father of a family, so he was leni... ...ime on it with her thin, dark skinned hand. The next song in the book was an Italian one. Kitty played the opening bars, and looked round at Varenka. ... ...owner; he won’t be able to tell you what crop’s profitable, and what’s not.” “Italian bookkeeping,” said the gentleman of the gray whiskers ironically.... ... all the Russian entertainments the prince liked best French ac tresses and ballet dancers and white seal champagne. Vronsky was used to princes, but... ...e Russian entertainments the prince liked best French ac tresses and ballet dancers and white seal champagne. Vronsky was used to princes, but, eithe... ...fter meeting Vronsky on his own steps, cat drove, as he had intended, to the Italian opera. He sat through two acts there, and saw every one he had wa... ... Sunday. Stepan Arkadyevitch went to the Grand Theater to a rehearsal of the ballet, and gave Masha Tchibisova, a pretty dancing girl whom he had just... ... that any smile would jar on them. “Thou who didst from the beginning create male and female,” the priest read after the exchange of rings, “from Thee... ...e sums subscribed by the nobility of the province, the high schools, female, male, and military, and popular instruction on the new model, and finally,...

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...s, all traders in muffins (or crumpets) of whatsoever description, whether male or female, boys or men, ringing hand-bells or otherwise,’ was moved by... ...maining; there were vicious-faced boys, brood- ing, with leaden eyes, like malefactors in a jail; and there were young creatures on whom the sins of t... ...rt?’ ‘Not for twenty thousand hemispheres populated with— with—with little ballet-dancers,’ replied Mantalini in a po- etical strain. ‘Then you will, ... ...llanbile, MP . Fifteen guineas, tea and sugar, and servants allowed to see male cousins, if godly. Note. Cold dinner in the kitchen on the Sabbath, Mr... ...d; the said horse being composed of a small wooden cylinder, not unlike an Italian iron, supported on four crooked pegs, and painted in inge- nious re... ...he might have been taken for an actress all ready for the first scene in a ballet, and only waiting for the drop curtain to go up. ‘Place chairs.’ The... ...ge and the Maiden,’ said Mrs Crummles. ‘Oh!’ said the manager, ‘the little ballet interlude. V ery good, go on. A little this way , if you please, Mr ... ...ith my son Nicholas at the time, and I had been very much frightened by an Italian image boy that very morning. In fact, it was quite a mercy, ma’am,’... ...empt, was still hard at work when Newman Noggs came home. Now, between the italian-ironing of frills, the flouncing of trousers, the trimming of frock...