There she sat before me, laughing; for, wearying of them, she had told the envoys to whom she gave audience in the council that she was called from their presence by a sudden message come from Rome; and the jest seemed merry to her.
But before I was to go before my audience I must be washed and have a change of clothes.
The audience applauded, as if they thought I had a head, and had used it to good purpose in their city.
The oration was delivered to a big audience of Oregonians, trappers and mountaineers, some of them wearing the quaintest garb I had ever seen.
This retort caught the audience so happily that the tide swept around my way, to the discomfiture of the noble lord.
The students informed me that it was the Premier, Lord John Russell, who had just returned from an audience with the Queen at Balmoral.
Fowler asked for some one from the audience to allow him to examine his head.
Clay, of Kentucky, was made chairman, but the audience did not like that, and a big cabbage was thrown to the stage from the gallery.
I was very much astonished, therefore, to hear Sumner challenge any one in the audience to confute his arguments.
I come among you as one of yourselves," he said, "as one of the deputation to which an audience has been refused.
As Don Agostino proceeded with his arguments, the faces of his audience gradually became more lowering, and more than once murmurs of disapproval and impatience were audible.
Whilst Emma was making this apology, some of the audience observed that she had a remarkably sweet voice; others discovered that there was something extremely feminine in her person.
The reading began; and Emma was so completely absorbed, that she did not perceive that most of the audience were intent upon her.
They were taken through the anteroom and then into the large hall of audience where the Governor General sat, as before, in the great chair with his secretary at the little table at his right.
To-morrow morning you may secure audience with him if you have the important message that you say.
This, I think, is the reason of the sudden call to the audience with His Excellency.
The Governor General motioned the four, now the five once more, to seats, and they noticed that the audience was marked by unusual state.
Your Excellency," he said, with dramatic effect, "a man has come craving immediate audience with you.
Mr. Qurves was practised in the art of rousing his audience to indignation, and he paused to let the full effect of his outburst sink into the hearts of his hearers.
Here is my record," and thereupon he held up to the view of his audience the ebony stick on which was cut a series of notches.
With brutal directness and sarcasm he laid bare a diabolical plot until the audience was roused almost to a pitch of frenzy: but when he closed as follows the frenzy became almost uncontrollable.
The suggestion of Wyckliffe being handed over to the tender mercies of his Australian victims seemed to tickle the audience and a faint ripple of laughter went round the crowded Court.
Without any assistance from turgid rhetoric, or indignant denunciation, he depicted it in a manner so simple, yet so direct, that his audience shivered in response.
Having spoken these words, that prince got up, and went into a great hall, where he used to appear in public, and to give audience to the great men of his court.
He soon arrived at the capital and palace of the king of Samarcand, who did not scruple to afford him audience immediately upon his arrival.
Shortly after our arrival, the band struck up the inevitable "Marseillaise," but the audience neither listened nor applauded.
Let any playwright reproduce that scene in a farcical or comedy form, and I am sure that three-fourths of his audience would scout it as too exaggerated, and yet every incident of it is absolutely true.
It was probably the most critical audience in Europe, but every one shook, and Mdlle.
I danced for about a quarter of an hour, and I honestly believe that I never had such an appreciative audience either before or afterwards.
The audience rose to a man, and rushed to the exits.
In his perplexity, he sought advice of an English nobleman, who had his grandes et petites entrees to the Tuileries, and the latter promised to get him an audience of the Emperor.
The next inventor exhibits a fire-extinguisher; the audience require more than a verbal explanation; some of them propose to set the Alcazar on fire.
Fortunately for my reputation, the shadows of night were gathering fast; in another twenty minutes it would be quite dark, and I felt almost rejoiced that my audience could scarcely distinguish my features.
The audience applauded vociferously, and it was very evident to me that neither in Paris nor in London the two nations shared the entente cordiale of their rulers.
He refused audience to no one, and during his flying visit became well acquainted with the country, the people, and all that went on.
He stared at the sun, raising his voice from a faint whisper to a thundering baritone at its loudest, and his whole audience seemed so affected by the performance that they all shook and trembled and prayed in their terror.
On the whole it was a better play than the audience in 1708 deserved.
While keeping the play comic Baker still did not wish to push the audience too far.
At Madrid the nuncio inquired with curiosity of Fourquevaux, in what spirit Philip II—who had had an audience with the ambassador the day before—received the news of France’s activities in Switzerland.
At the first audience Henry received the deputies graciously, saying he “liked their speech, but their articles were hard.
Cardinal Orsini, who was dispatched as legate from Rome to congratulate Charles IX and to support the exhortations of Salviati, describes his audience with the King on December 19.
The audience appointed with the ambassador of the duke of Florence was countermanded, the best physicians sent for, and the opinion is that the King is in great danger.
At the same time orders were given for the ambassadors and others who wished for audience to ask it of the queen mother through the secretaries.
It does not seem to have occurred to the audience as absurd that heaven should be regarded as a kind of drawing-room floating in the air, and indeed that idea is perhaps not yet obsolete.
Somehow he reminds one of those jugglers who, for a time, toss heavy balls about, and then suddenly astonish the audience by introducing a handkerchief, which flies lightly among its ponderous companions.
This curious fact reminds us that the book had among the pious people of our country an audience almost as enthusiastic as Bunyan himself was.
He exhibits the spectacle of a man trying to address his audience while standing on his head--and succeeding.
At this the audience began to make arrangements to stand, for it was the custom in Mount Olivet Church in those days to stand while the preacher "made" his prayer, as Deacon Gramps expressed it.
One song that especially gripped the audience ran thus: "Do you triumph, O my brother, over all this world of sin?
During this time the entire audiencewas held spellbound by his simple and earnest eloquence.
Even at this very hour not a mile from here, in the schoolhouse, there is a group of people five times as large as this audience worshipping the Lord in what they call the "beauty of holiness.
Nitocris looked round at the now eager audience a trifle anxiously, for she had a fairly clear idea of the trouble that might possibly be ahead.
I need not remind such an audience as this that more than one distinguished student and investigator has suggested that it also may not be scientific.
Benches placed on it invited the guests to rest and to enjoy the music of a band upon a suitable stand, while Pilsen beer was to be handed to the audienceby waiters.
The humor of the whole audience after that grew rapidly boisterous, and by midnight the tone of this carnival fete given by officers and their ladies could scarcely be distinguished from that rampant at a village kermess.
For finale the small audience overwhelmed the players with praise, and some more or less correct remarks were made about the different compositions.
Well, the lion-tamer's big play to the audience was putting his head in a lion's mouth.
For a moment all was silent, save for the orchestra, her lips moving on without a sound, and then the audience realized that it had been sold, and broke out afresh, this time with genuine applause in acknowledgment of her victory.
The main performance was under way, the orchestra was playing and the audience intermittently applauding.
It stands to reason that the management could not get people to face a rampant audience for nothing, and on such occasions the audience certainly goes mad.
King Wallace was doing his turn and holding the audience spellbound.
The audience may be asked to join in the chorus, but even if this is not practical the people can catch the air, and with the words before them in later days they can make melody in their homes.
Do we not sometimes dream that we are one of an audience looking at a play?
Only four years ago the same aged prophet of federation, with an eloquence inspired by the theme, outlined to a Liberal audience a scheme for federating the English-speaking peoples.
After an audience of the Queen-Mother, Lady Fanshawe set out for Calais; and on the 2nd of November was conveyed to the Tower Wharf in a French vessel-of-war.
On the 10th of October, stilo novo, my husband had his audience of his Majesty in his palace, at Lisbon; going in the King's coach with the same nobleman and in the same form as he made his entry.
This evening I have had audience of the young King; giving him, in our Master's name, first the pesame, and then the parabien of the time.
On the 24th, my husband had a private audience of his Catholic Majesty; on the 27th, I waited on the Queen and the Empress, with my daughters and all my train.
Even in a thoroughly well-acted play a perceptible shudder runs through the audience when two actors select each a chair, draw them down to the footlights, and one announces "'Tis now some fourteen years ago.
The audience cannot but feel, however thrilling the story to be told, that at any rate the two players have survived the adventures they have to narrate, and on the whole a good many wish they hadn't.
The perspiring audience in the main drawing-room he alludes to as "those in front.
Indeed, as at any spectacle the world over, the audience was as well worth attention as the performance itself.
Your only hope is to evade him, and gain an audienceof the king.
But, at last making up my mind, I walked boldly up to Crillon and requested his good offices to procure me an immediate audience of the king.
Some of the weaker or more candid minds among the audience were even upset by the young minister's arguments.
He got through it somehow; and, sitting down at last, with parched lips and a helpless feeling of excitement, watched the audience dispersing, as if they were so many enemies from whom he had escaped.
A very animated interested audience filled the benches in the Music Hall for the three last lectures.
The daylight struggled into the audiencepart through a few small windows above the gallery.
Some of the audience came to the attendant's assistance and the fellow was flung out.
Who could say how the audience would take a play the like of which they had never seen?
The house was full, but in the dim and smoky candlelight the faces of the audience were little better than rows of shadowy masks.
This was Hippisley, a comedian with a natural humour which was wont to set an audience in a roar.
As Lavinia and Gay passed through the dimly lighted vestibule to the entrance a man from among the audience stole after them.
The audience were somewhat timid in applauding this, though all felt how apt it was, until they saw Walpole actually clapping his hands, and then they followed suit right heartily.
Spiller's laughing eyes roamed over her from head to foot and his shrewd face wrinkled into the quizzical expression which had often times sent his audience into a roar.
The dream she had once had of playing to an audience and seeing only Lancelot Vane in the first row of the pit applauding and eager to congratulate her, was gone.
He's all in all to Mr. Rich when Rich condescends to let the fiddles and the flutes give the audience a little music.
Spiller bestowed the greatest pains upon his "make up", and so identified himself with the part he was playing as completely to lose his own personality, and bewildered his audience as to whether he was their favourite they were applauding.
It was seen at the very commencement that the audience was not disposed to accept the innovations of the "Beggar's Opera" without protest.
As the final cadence died away the little audience loudly applauded.
Now, then, I am going to look this audience in the face, and then I am going to say just this: The Bible is an Oriental book.
