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Example sentences for "soiree"

Lexicographically close words:
soils; soin; soins; soiourned; soir; soirees; sois; soit; soixante; sojer
  1. I have made him believe that Burke Bethel is Lord Brougham, and I am about to bring him to a soiree at Mi-Ladi's, who he supposes to be the Marchioness of Conyngham.

  2. Honourably accounts for Mr. Weller's Absence, by describing a Soiree to which he was invited and went; also relates how he was intrusted by Mr. Pickwick with a Private Mission of Delicacy and Importance 38.

  3. All my friends wanted to give evidence of their enthusiasm by being present at the soiree at the Opera.

  4. Randal had indeed been to Mrs. Avenel's soiree dansante, and called twice and found her at home, and been very bland and civil, and admired the children.

  5. And mind you remember the soiree dansante at Mrs. Avenel's.

  6. An interesting account of the soiree is given by a correspondent of Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, who was present on the occasion.

  7. Since the soiree at the house of the rich banker, Ebenstreit, an entire winter had passed in pleasures and fetes.

  8. He was just reading aloud at the duchess's soiree from the late edition of the almanach, and the society listened with earnest and kind attention, occasionally interrupted with an enthusiastic "Bravo!

  9. This happy smile still beamed upon Goethe's face as he walked with the duke late in the evening toward Belvedere to soiree of the Duchess Amelia, who was inspired with a love for the fine arts, and particularly literature.

  10. One night he appeared at a soiree in brand new uniform, his captain's bars replaced by the major's star on the collar.

  11. And then their laughs and jokes at a soiree would give a dowager from Frenchtown an apoplexy!

  12. Here Duplessis came up and whispered his daughter "it was time to leave; they had promised the Duchesse de Tarascon to assist at the soiree she gave that night.

  13. That famous soiree at Donna Antonia Pierleoni's had seemed to be the start of all this agreeable new period of sociability.

  14. We are getting ready to play at a soiree at Donna Antonia Pierleoni's.

  15. That was true, of course, but all the same it did make Marise sick to have people call a "soiree musicale" what really was a "sartorial evening.

  16. She never would have dreamed of looking at him if she hadn't seen that first evening at Donna Antonia Pierleoni's soiree that Marise had lost her head over him.

  17. This soiree is a concert given by the Duchess at the Tuileries.

  18. In the evening Madame gave a soiree at which the hereditary Princess of Hesse-Darmstadt was present.

  19. And now, at the last ball, the soiree dansante, he danced like this with Doddie and, after her, with Leonie.

  20. With whom did you speak on the evening of the 2d of May, at the soiree of Madame Bonaparte?

  21. Twenty times did I repeat the name aloud, before it flashed across me as the same Madame Lefebvre mentioned at the soiree in the Palace.

  22. If you know of two or three such affairs going on in any soiree to which you may be invited--is not the party straightway amusing?

  23. Then her ladyship begins to read the Morning Post, and glances over the names of the persons who were present at Baroness Bosco's ball, and Mrs. Toddle Tompkyns's soiree dansante in Belgrave Square.

  24. I command you to meet me at the soiree on Saturday and explain your conduct.

  25. You must absolutely attend the soiree next Saturday at the officers' mess.

  26. As the soiree approached its end, the gathering in the dining-room grew more noisy and lively.

  27. But perhaps Maria Viktorovna is not coming to the soiree to-night?

  28. If he was engaged for a soiree at the house of one of his Polish or French friends, he would often send his own instrument, if there did not happen to be a Pleyel in the house.

  29. Liszt has given a glowing description of an improvised soiree at Chopin's lodgings in the Rue de la Chaussee d'Antin--that is, in the years before the winter in Majorca.

  30. At this soiree Chopin not only performed several of his pieces, but also accompanied on a second piano his E minor Concerto which was played by his pupil, the youthful and beautiful Mdlle.

  31. O'Meara accompanied by her master played his E minor Concerto at a soiree of Madame de Courbonne, proceeds thus:- Mdlle.

  32. The occasion was a soiree at the house of Madame de Courbonne.

  33. The day after this soiree Moscheles wrote in his diary:-- Yesterday was a memorable day.

  34. One evening, though invited to an early soiree and to a late ball, during dinner they changed their mind, and decided on going to the Opera at the very opening, to hear some favorite music which Geraldine very much admired.

  35. He came in to inquire after their health, claimed Geraldine's hand for the opening quadrille at the soiree to which they were going after the opera, and went away.

  36. A different reception was accorded him at a soiree of chamber music held at the conservatoire, when he performed with Hiller his Duet Variations, Op.

  37. One method was, the holding of a great literary soiree in the Manchester Free Trade Hall.

  38. The soiree of the next evening was brilliant.

  39. His speech, in fact, created so decided a sensation that I was asked to invite him to preside at the soiree of the coming year of 1844,--which he did.

  40. Above all, the anarchist has his soiree familiale.

  41. Now it chanced that the Post-Office Message-boys' Literary Association had fixed to hold its first grand soiree on the night of the 15th.

  42. Our only other gayety since I last wrote was a soiree at M.

  43. Frau Brohl gave a large soiree twice in the course of the winter, when the invitations they had received were returned.

  44. A soiree of Berlin bankers--sub specie oeiernitatis--that would do very well, and you must take out a patent for it.

  45. No, this is a soiree in the library, entirely for ladies; Mrs. Tallboys is to explain her views in the evenings at the Principal houses in the neighbourhood.


  46. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "soiree" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.