It kept perpetually coming up in Paris, in the transpontine world, that, as the phrase was, America had grown more interesting since they left.
It may be that the last lingering glamour of childhood had for ever faded away with the realisation of the day-dream which she had carried about with her so often in the dingy transpontine thoroughfares around Oakley Street.
From the sawdust of the Transpontine Theatre she was transferred, on the recommendation of the Prince of Wales, it is said, to figure in similar pieces, at Colman's house in the Haymarket.
He fell ingloriously, even as a Mr. Cobham had done before him in an audacious attempt on Richard; but both gentlemen became heroes to transpontine audiences.
And he strode along with the air of the heavy man in a transpontine melodrama.
Ruddigore' is a burlesque of transpontine melodrama, and a very good burlesque too; but the Savoy audience knew next to nothing about transpontine melodrama, and so the satire was missed and the piece fell flat.
Then, leaving the pleasant grounds of Withybush away upon our left, we presently strike the main road again at a place called Crowsnest, and thus approach the town of Haverfordwest by its long, transpontine suburb of Prendergast.
The village, with its snug waterside inn beloved of anglers, has a very seductive air about it; but we must not linger here, for these transpontinelands lie without the bounds of Pembrokeshire, and are therefore taboo to us.
Later, he appears to have become lessee of the transpontine Canterbury Hall, where he was a dismal failure, and spent the latter portion of his tenancy in bed—a victim of gout and the importunities of irrepressible bill-stickers.
It is here the same in the melodrama of the transpontine theatre as in the tragedies of the Greek dramatists and Shakespeare.
If any reader has ever put his head into a sack (which I haven’t) and tried to talk, or heard the ghost speak at a transpontine theatre, some idea of the extraordinary hollow change in the voice may be imagined.
In truth, homicidal mania appears to set in generally, for the remaining records of the Ghuznevide dynasty are as irrational, as murderous as transpontine melodrama.
This transpontine restriction undoubtedly narrows the life and interests of Julfa.
Had he stepped from behind the proscenium of the scenic stage, or come bounding from a "back flat," the Transpontine spectators would have hailed him as the hero they had come to the theatre to see.
The transpontine theatre, even the penny gaff of the New Cut, was not quite unfamiliar with the face of the poet-painter.
I have it bound in morocco with some more of Douglas Jerrold’s early transpontine plays, and some Æschylean dramas by Mr. Fitzball.
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