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Example sentences for "private theatricals"

  • He was, as he told his wife, good at private theatricals.

  • I was always good at private theatricals.

  • I should be quite independent of Welford and Singleton Terrace, Richmond, and although I am good at private theatricals, I am getting a bit sick of Singleton Terrace, Richmond.

  • A few days after William Crawford's return from Welford, and the scene in which he gave his wife a specimen of his quality as the player of a part in private theatricals, he went up to London with one of the hundred pounds in his pocket.

  • A propos of private theatricals at Gad's Hill Place, Mr. T.

  • Lamert's son James, by a former wife, was a great crony of young Charles Dickens, taking him to the Rochester theatre, and getting up private theatricals in which they both acted.

  • For a costume ball, private theatricals or any occasion when elaborate dresses or preparations are needed, a month should be given.

  • A young lady who is very prominent in society should not make herself too common; she should not appear in too many charades, private theatricals, tableaux, etc.

  • It is quite enough if she finishes her exciting winter with a fancy dance or private theatricals at some charitable entertainment.

  • Private theatricals may be made very pleasing and instructive entertainments for fall or winter evenings, among either young or married people.

  • Private theatricals should, however, be regulated with much judgment.

  • In private theatricals there is the possibility of some benefit.

  • When, in private theatricals, he had need to alter the character of his countenance, he did it effectually, merely by forcing down his hair till it reached his eyebrows.

  • She went to a magasin that she had seen advertised in the Petites Afiches as supplying superb costumes for fancy-balls and amateur performers in private theatricals.

  • In my younger days I was thought clever in private theatricals, especially in the transformations of appearance which belong to light comedy and farce.

  • She went to a magasin that she had seen advertised in the Petites Afiches as supplying superb costumes for fancy-balls and amateur performers in private theatricals.

  • Charles Fox wound up the idler part of his early life by joining in private theatricals.

  • But any tricks with naked lights, in the confusion of private theatricals, are objectionable, and should never be used except by some grown-up person not among the actors.

  • The Green-room is generally a scene of great confusion in private theatricals.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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