In addition, there are some poor young women who are known under the name of supernumeraries [agregadas], who are maintained through charity.
At present this school has 26 Spanish girls and 60 supernumeraries and servants.
Here and there the orchestras of the theatres, clad in the cast-off finery of the supernumeraries thereof, parade the streets, and make dissonance with their instruments.
The two supernumerariesare there," he announced, "but I cannot see Lawton.
In lieu of "four swords and bucklers," a very numerous army of supernumeraries has marched to and fro upon the boards.
Thus, so far back as the days of Quin, there is record of a curious misapprehension on the part of the supernumeraries of the time.
The same trains of thought go tramping round in circle through the brain, like the supernumeraries that make up the grand army of a stage-show.
Dolly then scrambled into the chair with cushions, and the supernumeraries wedged themselves round her and purred, in the person of the Cat.
The supernumeraries were intransigeant and troublesome; that is to say, their representative the Cat was.
At the same moment one of the supernumeraries advanced with the front-glass or bull's-eye in his hand, and the men at the pumps gave a turn or two to see that all was working well.
The fewer the number of supernumeraries by whom the needful illusion is effected, the greater the merit of the performance, the more convincing the testimony borne to the skill of the stage-manager.
Spectacular methods of production entail the employment of armies of silent supernumeraries to whom are allotted functions wholly ornamental and mostly impertinent.
Together with these were some 500 supernumeraries with blackened faces, in oriental garb, chasing round to try to find their places, others with banners arranging their dresses.
This affair threw me into contact with several supernumerariesas well as bill-board men, and I was very much interested to hear their different histories.
Possibly this habit of providing for supernumeraries explains why, in the table of officials, Toledo has four alcaides and Llerena and Valencia have three each.
We are told that when, in 1643, Arce y Reynoso assumed the inquisitor-generalship, he recognized that there were too many supernumeraries and that he prohibited the sale of offices until further orders.
Fifty supernumeraries were a poor stop-gap for the one hundred and seventy.
The supernumeraries needed no urging after their scanty rest to spring to the place of him who was fainting, but hardly any man spoke a word.
The supernumeraries tossed them aside like logs of wood, and leaped upon their benches.
They are the supernumeraries in the pantomime of life; the men who have been thrust into it, with no other view than to be constantly tumbling over each other, and running their heads against all sorts of strange things.
Touches was present, and Berenice and Coralie's dresser from the theatre, with a couple of supernumeraries and the disconsolate Camusot.
Send all the supernumeraries on board the Gazelle, Mr Marline, bag and baggage, will ye?
Sometimes ships put to sea without their full complements (as in the case of the first Wasp), but more often with supernumeraries aboard.
Every office and outhouse is garrisoned by these supernumeraries and their families; for they are amazingly prolific, and when they die off, are sure to leave John a legacy of hungry mouths to be provided for.
They were, in truth, supernumeraries added to the chief of the State, as a concession to the spirit of equality and as a blind to hide the reality of the new despotism.
The star then rushes distractedly about, arranging the supernumeraries to his liking.
In companies where the ballet girls are simply female supernumerariesand do nothing but march about while the danseuse and coryphees engage the attention of the audience, any extended amount of training is not necessary.
The students proper receive a small pay of three taels a month, but the supernumeraries receive nothing except a free breakfast every day.
He kept eight hundred supernumeraries always about him as servants, "of whom nine or ten were noblemen, fifteen knights, and forty esquires.
D'Albiney bolted the morsel and unbolted the gate nearly at the same moment, when John, rushing in, butchered all the supernumeraries and sent the principal characters to Corfe Castle.
He, however, calmed suspicion by declaring that he was only collecting supernumeraries for his nephew's coronation.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "supernumeraries" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
