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Example sentences for "prima donna"

  • We open on the 24th, and I give you my word of honor we have neither tenor, basso, nor barytone engaged, nor am I quite sure of my prima donna.

  • Your face is good enough for a prima donna, but to be a real prima donna you must fix it up with cold cream, paint and powder.

  • Ain't it pretty enough to be a prima donna?

  • But how do you know all about fixing up to be a prima donna?

  • Thus it was that the future prima donna was reared so to speak in the lap of Music.

  • Surely they must, at that early day, have had some faint glimmering of the future in store for the coming prima donna!

  • And he has taken the superb Villa Ricciardi, on Lago Maggiore, where he will have a troupe of singers, and perform operas, in which I believe I may possibly act as prima donna.

  • Irma had come flying in late, enraged, and in disorder, praying to take Camilla's part; but Montini refused to act with the seconda donna as prima donna.

  • And surely he had promised to be there, and to meet the famous prima donna and sup with her after the performance, as in former days at Vienna?

  • He spoke of Morabita, the famous prima donna, and of gentle Mrs. Chifney down at the Brockhurst racing-stables.

  • A prima donna without a drop of Italian blood in her veins, eclipsed the grand Tenorini herself.

  • The crowd open their mouths to receive the honeyed voice of a prima donna, and Doctor Wardrop throws blue pills into them.

  • In the operatic battle, In the Prima Donna's life Quit the herd--the vocal cattle, Be a Grisi in the strife.

  • He wanted to take her to Paris as prima donna in the Italian theatre which he directed there.

  • Whenever Sacchi had to engage a prima donna, all the other actresses rose up in tumult.

  • After exchanging compliments, he began to say that his company had sent him on a voyage of discovery through Italy to find a prima donna for their theatre at Paris.

  • The prima donna, in particular, urged me in the strongest terms to finish what remained of it to do.

  • Madame Haigh-Dyer was the prima donna, and Mr. Henry Haigh and Mr. Henry Rowland were members of the company.

  • Madame Haigh-Dyer was the prima donna, and Mr. and Mrs. Aynsley Cooke were of the company.

  • I make a lunge at the loudest and biggest, a sort of prima donna in their infernal opera.

  • At that particular juncture, a beautiful young prima donna had lately been engaged for the National Italian Opera, Andorra.

  • Her parents, however, did not look upon the young man as a fit husband for such a prima donna as their daughter, and it was true that no vocalist on the stage seemed to have a brighter future before her.

  • My son an actor, my daughter a prima donna--it is well.

  • It was not on account of the money, but for fame, that I desired to become a prima donna.

  • The king will found an opera-house, and splendid singers are so rare that Prussia will thank God if I allow myself to be prevailed upon to take the place of prima donna.

  • Here was a celebrated prima donna of great beauty, openly declaring that she was ready to flirt with him--ready to be made love to, if he were disposed that way.

  • An encore was insisted on and granted by the obliging prima donna.

  • Golitzine, who had spies everywhere, in the dressing-rooms of actresses, in the boudoirs of great ladies, knew all there was to know about the friendship of the conductor and the prima donna.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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