Supers had been engaged to attend rehearsal in the afternoon, so that they might know their business when evening came.
As soon as Frank saw him he dispatched one of the supers for a physician.
Behind the scenes the actors who were not on the stage at the moment and the supers hurrahed much like the cheering of a vast multitude.
The supersstood spellbound, as over the stage Strode the maddened O'Keefe; in a frenzy of rage He picked up his sword, and then went for his foe In terrible earnest.
O'Keefe fell as if dead, With a gash on his head; The supers rushed forward, the curtain descended.
No one thought, on that night, That McEwen would dare try his vile tour de force; And the battle began On the well-rehearsed plan, While the supers made ready to bear off his corse.
I very seldom dropped a red super because of an oratorical flourish; but the supers did not come my way all the time, I had some waiting to do, and in the meantime I improved my mind.
Our stamping-ground for supers and vests at that time was Fulton, Nassau, Lower Broadway and Wall Streets, and we covered our territory well.
We were on the stage, in a play of Ancient Egypt, and a mob of supers was yelling for our lives in the wings.
Seven or eight times the supers clapped their "'ands to their swords" without giving Allen satisfaction.
The march past the window of the apparently unending army--that good old trick which sends the supers flying round the back-cloth to cross the stage again and again--created a superb effect.
In these days I am afraid they would not only put such material on to the leading lady, but on to the supers too!
Duke of Mecklenburg, who expressed himself as being both surprised and pleased at the way we had drilled our black supers to act their parts.
Major Schomburgk had given strict orders for all our eight hundred or so of supers to muster at 6 A.
One thing, there was no lack of supers for our dramatic scenes at Bafilo.
Curiously enough, we had considerable difficulty in getting the natives to act as supers in this film.
The cannibals, who were also supers led by an actor of the "troupe," set up a hot pot to boil my bones in.
Some of the supers jabbed me pretty hard, among them Babe Durgon, who delighted in tormenting me.
Actors and supers and chorus made haste to get back to their dressing rooms while the sceneshifters rapidly changed the scenery.
Supers and Supermen is a collection of historical and political portraits and skits.
His most conspicuous achievement so far is the brilliant volume Supers and Supermen, from which my selection is taken.
Below stage, thesupers or "extra people" sit about in noisy groups awaiting the call.
By some good or bad fortune I happened to be loitering in the neighborhood of the back door of the theatre, when the captain of the supers called me and hired me at twenty-five cents a night to go on as imp in one of the spectacular scenes.
Minor performers share their rooms; and the captain of the supers usually has an apartment beneath the stage where he gathers his Roman mob, or marshals his mail-clad but awkward squad of warriors.
Why, when I used to be at the Old Comique they were as plentiful as supers and used to appear as peasant girls in the regular drama.
After the colony has been bred up to the greatest possible strength, the brood apartment should be so regulated in size, when the honey flow begins and the supers are added, as to crowd many of the bees out and into the supers placed above.
If the brood apartment has been much contracted when the supers were added, the queen may go into the sections and deposit eggs unless prevented by the insertion of a queen excluder (fig.
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Langstroth hive with two half-depth supers for surplus honey.
The main difference to be observed in preparing colonies for the production of comb honey, instead of extracted, is in the adjustment of the brood apartment at the time the supers are added.
Five such supers with brood may be piled on top of one such colony, and they will be the strongest in the yard for storing extracted honey during the basswood or other late honey flow.
Remove all comb honey supers at once at the end of the honey flow to have them white and clean.
When raising extracted honey on a large scale two extracting supers may suffice for each colony.
Extracted supers may be returned to the bees in the evening or piled up at a distance in a safe place for bees to clean out.
All supers are removed at the end of the honey flow.
In making up supersonly A 1 sections should be used, with full sheets of extra thin foundation and three-eighths inch bottom starters of thin foundation.
Bees are less inclined to swarm in a ten frame hive, and two ten frame supers as a rule will be required where three eight frame superswould otherwise be necessary.
Add moresupers when necessary, below before July 4th, on top after that date.
Enter Supersin calico jackets to look like cloth, some in brown holland petticoat-trousers and big boots, all with very large buckles.
In addition, once the miasma had subsided, and the idea had been explained to them, the three supers became quite keen themselves.
Doubtless the setting is frivolous, but it has served to introduce two of the supers who go to make up the final scene.
The same remark applies tosupers partly filled with combs; but they should be kept clean and dry.
Those who choose may have the supers made without crowns, which gives facilities for fitting them up to serve any required purpose.
The height ought to be sufficient to include any supers that may be required.
The supers should be placed each on a separate adapter; and on removal, the slide is passed underneath the adapter, the whole being then lifted off together.
At such times it is often well to aid in moderating the warmth by slightly raising up the bottom edge of the supers with a few strips of wood or lead.
In good years two or more of such supers may sometimes be filled in succession, the appearance of the hive determining its expediency.
Should a few cold nights ensue, the supers must be kept covered; and more especially glasses, which the bees will desert unless a warm temperature is fully preserved in them.
In order to give the straw supers a better footing when placed one upon another, some persons prefer an extra cord or rim of straw to be worked round the outer bottom and top band.
Illustration] Whether with or without the protection of a bee-house, the supers ought to be covered.
I picked up a paper and read: "Ten men wanted as supers at a theater.
I also made note of an "ad" reading: "Wanted, fifty supers at the Opera House.
If a few colonies in the apiary that are strong enough to go above refuse to do so, liftsupers from some colonies that have started to work above and give them to the slow colonies.
It is better, however, to have the supers smaller, so that the bees may be crowded more to produce full sections.
One of the best features in hive manufacture developed by Langstroth is the making of the spaces between frames, side walls, and supers accurately, so that there is just room for the easy passage of bees.
Usually comb honey supersor surplus bodies for extracting frames will have been put on before swarming occurs.
A good indication of the need of supersis the whitening of the brood combs at the top.
To remove bees from sections, the super may be put over a bee escape so that the bees can pass down but can not return, or the supers may be removed and covered with a wire-cloth-cone bee escape.
Being a playwright, he was known to nearly all the people, more or less, and got five supers and one carpenter to join him--for a consideration.
But meantime the supers were paid liberally among the fir-trees by Vandeleur, pocketed their crape, flung their dummy guns into a cornfield, dispersed in different directions, and left no trace.
He had seen her sitting in the front of the house, and had come upon the scene just as she was urging the supers to go to Curtis's assistance; and he then thought she had never looked so lovely.
She flew to the wings, and, just in the nick of time, got two of the supers to haul him out of the tank.
And in the end three of the supers had to be fetched.
The manager was pushing his way through the crowd, waving his megaphone, and looking somewhat alarmed, for he felt dismayed at the idea of having so many of his supers being injured more or less seriously.
Those supers were in the habit of taking orders, and never stopped to question when told to follow out a line of work, especially when the command came in a tone of authority.
Other supers would be called upon to take the places of those injured, if there was any necessity for reenforcements, and the work of completing the drama would proceed apace.
If that fire gets away from those supers it's going to give them a heap of trouble!
He was nowhere near as good as Anketam or Jacovik, but there were worse supers in the barony.
There's some supers who'd boot you good for a crack like that.
Enchanted at this witticism, the supers laughed, and poor Dubois would have been utterly done for if Dick had not interposed.
At this sally three supers retired into the wings holding their sides, and Dubois, furious at being outdone in a joke, walked away in high dudgeon, calling Mortimer an unfeeling brute.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "supers" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
