No doubt these early actors bore some relation to the jesters who were established members of noble households, and of whom impromptu jokes and witticisms were looked for upon all occasions.
The Crew, thinking this was a special pantomime got up impromptufor his benefit, roared with laughter, and applauded on the tiller.
Fishing with these, baited with breadcrumbs, they secured quite a number of chub and dace, and made the valley musical with their laughter at each success or mishap, by the time the Bridesdale people returned from the impromptu funeral.
What do you think of that for an impromptu song, Wilks?
When she had gone, there was always something there for the invalid's supper, and Gano would suppress the fact that he had brought a double provision in his pocket for an impromptu meal.
You could roar down several hundred girls in the morning hymn, and you could even have occasional surreptitious performances in the gymnasium, or at home in the kitchen, where whole cycles of impromptu operas were given in a season.
The impromptu part of the programme began earlier than it was advertised.
For a change our leader said we would have an impromptuconcert in the church choir so as to use the organ.
As we came in sight we found the guests had formed into a procession, and headed by an impromptu band, arranged for the occasion.
Mr. Daniel had requested us to take our places in the parlors and an impromptu reception was held until all the congregation had bid us good-bye.
The clerk and the two gendarmes then began what seemed to be an impromptu imitation of Miss Loie Fuller in her celebrated skirt dancing--mosquito curtain whirled this way and that in voluptuous curves.
He was extremely emaciated, with one eye destroyed and almost blind in the other, dressed in outre style as though he were acting as jockey in an impromptu charade.
Eight men, in white corded hats and black cloaks, bore the coffin on a bier, and there was a sprinkling of impromptu followers--as there always is at these foreign funerals.
She had just arranged her curls, and was contemplating their effect to her entire satisfaction, when back came Patience sooner than she was expected, and caught the young lady at her impromptu toilette.
Could he have let her in by getting down a chimney himself, or in any other impromptu way, and so opened the door for her, he would have done it.
He was too sleepy to feel the dulness of his present position, and even allowed that his impromptu nurse had done tolerably well.
Which was one of the impromptu proverbs that Cigarette was wont to manufacture and bring into her discourse with an air of authority as of one who quotes from profound scholastic lore.
But it had been often told them by experience that, unless she beckoned one out, a blow of her clinched hand and a cessation of her impromptu pas de seul would be the immediate result.
Exactly," said the Colonel, who seemed much interested in the drawing of the water, and listened intently to the echoes of the splashing from the impromptu buckets.
Into this one of our makeshift bags was emptied, and the impromptu trough proved quite suitable.
Following Miss Farnborough's advice, she spent the first day's lessons in questioning the different classes as to their past work, and so turned the hour into an impromptu conversation class.
A few days, however, sufficed to put everything to rights again so far as regards external appearance; but how this impromptu carpentry would stand a storm was another question.
An impromptu dance was got up that evening by the merry party, in a hall in the township; and Polly had the honour of a turn with Mr. Henry Ocock, who was most affable.
It belongs to the same class of Chopin's works as the Fantasia Impromptu in C-sharp minor, already mentioned.
The place of "middle piece" in this Fantasia Impromptu is filled by a slow melody which in effect is a nocturne--quite in the manner of the middle piece in the Impromptu in A-flat.
Chopin, Fantasia Impromptu in C-sharp minor, Valse in A-flat, opus 42.
It's the opinion of most people who knew Mark Twain personally that his impromptu utterances, delivered with that ineffable quality of speech, manifested the culmination of his genius.
If they heard the name of any new creature or occupation they were likely to offer them as impromptu inspiration.
The children of that neighborhood played their impromptu parts well and naturally.
In his performance of the easy-going, thick-headed Peter Spuyk his impromptu additions to the lines made it hard on the company, who found their cues all at sixes and sevens, but it delighted the audience beyond measure.
Naturally, there would be stories about cats: impromptu bedtime stories, which began anywhere and ended nowhere, and continued indefinitely through a land inhabited only by cats and dreams.
I can't do you justice impromptu like this--you're too vast and overwhelming.
After the lecture there was an impromptu reception on the platform; then tea at Miss Bowles' room and at last home to dress for the supper parties.
In the evenings I sometimes managed to get downstairs with the men, and in this way was able to join in some impromptu sing-songs.
This impromptu concert delighted the French, who joined in as best they could.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "impromptu" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
