The first public dramatic performances were given in the "Bowery" (a very reminiscent name for a New York theatre goer of that day).
Every opera-goer knows the delay, the trouble, the irritation caused by the difficulty, when the performance is at an end, of getting up carriages or cabs.
At the first entrance it is verie cold, but after a season it warmeth the goer in, casting him into an indifferent heat.
The play-goer in an orchestra stall is always half-conscious that what he says or does may be observed.
He had the cosmopolitan point of view that the average play-goer in America lacked.
He expressed a hope, however, that Mr. Blee would make his future wife become a regular church-goer again after the ceremony; and Billy took it upon himself to promise as much for her.
My awn mother be a church-goer for that matter, an' you'll look far ways for her equal.
An old theatre-goer wrote to a Manchester paper to express indignation at Ristori's reception by the gallery.
Nor do we see why the pastor of Hughenden should gratify vulgar curiosity by proclaiming that the Premier has been a regular Church-goer for seventeen years, and was a Communicant at Easter.
And the sea-goer was awaiting her lord where she lay at anchor.
Then came in the wan night the shadow-goer gliding.
For the Great Goer pulled up so suddenly that I nearly went on without him in the line of the least resistance.
They recognise quite clearly that there is a difference between the feeling of the musician for pure music and that of the cheerful concert-goer for what music suggests.
But a student who has no original gift may yet be anything but a fool, and many students understand that the ordinary cultivated picture-goer knows an "Academy picture" at a glance and knows that it is bad.
The very centre of the existence of the ordinary chapel-goer and church-goer needs to be shifted from self to what is outside self, and yet is truly self, and the sole truth of self.
The wave-goer hastened Driven by breezes, stood on the shore.
Such a man is destitute of the very essence of God-life be he minister, church-goer or layman.
The hour hath now come for the down-goer to bless himself.
At such time will the down-goer bless himself, that he should be an over-goer; and the sun of his knowledge will be at noontide.
And the Falstaff of the general reader, it is to be feared, is an impossible conglomerate of two distinct characters, while the Falstaff of the mere play-goer is certainly much more like the impostor than the true man.
And experience shows that, as soon as pictorial attractions exceed a certain limit, impossible to specify in general terms, they at once influence the average play-goer in this mischievous way.
The steadiest church-goer fled like the infidel he reviled.
At the present day, if you ask the average theatre-goer about the merits of the play that he has lately witnessed, he will praise it not for its stately speeches nor its clever repartee, but because its presentation was "so natural.
If the average theatre-goer has liked a leading actor in one piece, he will go to see that actor in the next piece in which he is advertised to appear.
The Swift-goer leapt up and ran, and in less than a second had brought the magic water of life and given it to the Fool.
Probably the average of the theatre-goer is under rather than over twenty-two.
With such a disposition, external circumstances and suggestions, I venture to believe, may make a man either into an habitual church-goer or an habitual drunkard, an habitual toiler or an habitual rake.
Certain phrases favored by this class of playwright have been used so often that the most casual theater-goer will be able to recall them.
The play-goer who believes himself a free agent does not understand the art of the theater.
I doubt that today the most wearied theater-goer could find a vaudeville bill without one or two numbers that would entertain him.
It is to help the personnel of such an audience that our theater-goer needs his training.
If he do so, the play-goer will surely add greatly not only to his general literary culture but to his power of true appreciation of the play of the moment he may be witnessing.
The play-goer may feel this, although he never has analyzed the cause or more than dimly been aware of the artistic problem involved.
Naturally, the theater-goer will not stop with the English product.
But let it be assumed that our theater-goer is in his seat, ready to do his part in the patronage of a good play.
If the theater-goer will keep an eye upon this aspect of the drama, he will add much of interest to the content of his pleasure and do justice to a very important and easily overlooked phase of technic.
But the average opera-goer in this country is anything but charitable.
Also it was Herr Wagner's idea that the back cloth would leave the opera-goer indifferent to the picture gallery.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "goer" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
