Among the Mechanics' Institutes in his immediate neighborhood at Tapton were those of Belper and Chesterfield, and at their soirees he was a frequent and a welcome visitor.
On more than one occasion the author had the pleasure of listening to George Stephenson's homely but forcible addresses at the annual soirees of the Leeds Mechanics' Institute.
One evening something or other caused one of the soirees to break up midway, and Mrs. Knox came home by twilight in her pink gauze gown.
What with the perpetual soirees out, and the general daily improvidence at home, Mrs. Knox was never in funds, and Arnold found oceans of household bills coming in to him.
She is not very ill: goes out in her carriage to dazzle the town, as you observe, and has her regular soirees at home.
Rely upon one thing, Janet: that she will not be very well welcomed at her beloved soirees for some long time to come.
As a general rule, all the guests at these soirees left together.
You must put down the soirees and the dress--if you cannot keep them within the bounds of your income.
Lefford was a place that went in for propriety, and no one gave soirees while Bertie Tamlyn lay dead.
Seldom seen at large assemblies, she was eagerly sought after in the well winnowed soirees of the elect.
She professes to be a patroness of literature, and holds weeklysoirees in London, for all the newspaper poets.
Do we not find those dinners and soirees the pleasantest where we see a minister next to a punster, a poet to a prince, and a coxcomb like me next to a beauty like Lady Dawton?
Jacobowsky has not only made himself known to advantage as solo player, but also in connection with the Soirees in which he takes part with Hans Bishoff and Waldemar Meyer.
He at the same time accepted the Professorship at the Copenhagen Conservatoire and he also takes part in the regular concerts and chamber music soirees of his birthplace.
He first came to conspicuous notice through his articles in Les Soirees de Paris.
The leaders of the Futuristic movement in Italy were Guillaume Apollinaire, then editor of Les Soirees de Paris, and F.
However, two immortal books of the Count de Maistre: Soirees de Saint Petersbourg, and the book Du Pape, may give us the secret of that controversy lost to the memory of man, but which we shall one day find in that of God.
It was then the book Du Pape which succeeded to the Soirees de Saint Petersbourg.
Such scenes may naturally be varied to infinity; and the spirit of invention is so fertile, there is no doubt that before long ladies will be giving a place in the programme of their soirees to this up-to-date spiritualism.
During his spare moments Houdin constructed the ingenious automata that subsequently figured in his famous Soirees Fantastiques.
All Paris went wild over the enchanter, and thronged to his magical soirees at his residence in the Rue St. Claude.
I have written to Haslinger and Spina to send you the "Hungarian Rhapsodies" and the "Soirees de Vienne" (songs after F.
Addressed to a Vienna banker, an intimate friend of Liszt The "Soirees de Vienne," composed on Schubert Valses, are dedicated to him.
His contribution to "Les Soirees de Medan" is magnificent.
The battle which the "Soirees de Medan" helped to win has been won; having gained our right to deal with humble and unpleasant and sordidly tragic things in fiction, we are free to concern ourselves with other things.
The Abbe Samuel had wit enough to see that the Soirees Amalgamantes were not the success they should be.
People said the Countess Theudelinde's Soirees Amalgamantes would certainly make history.
At the soirees of the two first the company consisted almost wholly of musicians; at Kreutzer's, in particular, almost all the first composers and violinists of Paris were present.
Manger and Feige grants of money for special performances for the relief of native and travelling musicians, this gave rise to brilliant and interesting soirees at both their houses.
As the Soirees of Contemporary Music had not the wherewithal for giving orchestral performances, we were at that time able to hear only the chamber music of these composers.
At the same time my friends Pokrovsky, Nouvel, and Nurok founded an interesting musical society which they called Soirees of Contemporary Music.
They and Pastorale, a song without words, were given at the Soireesin the winter of 1908.
He is also a favourite feature of the union meetings and soirees familiales in several quarters of the city.
To Madame Ratignolle he said the music dispensed at her soireeswas too "heavy," too far beyond his untrained comprehension.
Mr. Pontellier did not attend these soirees musicales.
The Ratignolles' soirees musicales were widely known, and it was considered a privilege to be invited to them.
To be sure, in fashionable Spiritualistic soirees people sometimes amuse themselves.
Among the cavaliers who were in Linz was Count von Doenhoff, a great admirer of Beethoven, who gave several soirees in his honor during the composer's sojourn.
At the court soirees she is treated like any reigning princess; she alone is privileged to wear in her hair a white rose, the Czarina's favorite flower.
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