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  • Cecilia was extremely displeased at this irksome importunity, and still more chagrined to find her incautious emotion at the Opera-house, had given rise to suspicions of her harbouring a partiality for a man whom every day she more heartily disliked.

    Cecilia 2008

  • “I fancy,” answered Mr Harrel, laughing, “you will not easily persuade him to think so; your behaviour at the Opera-house was ill calculated to give him that notion.”

    Cecilia 2008

  • Cecilia therefore, equally quick in forming and executing her designs, wrote to him herself, and entreated that without losing an instant he would find out his friend Sir Robert Floyer, and endeavour to effect an accommodation between him and Mr Belfield, with whom he had had a dispute at the Opera-house.

    Cecilia 2008

  • He was exactly like one of those figures one can see of a fine May evening in the neighbourhood of the Opera-house in Paris.

    The Arrow of Gold 2006

  • Luckily, however, the gentry who attend at the Opera-house were too busy to quit their stations, and as the lateness of the hour prevented him from meeting many of their brethren in the street, he proceeded without molestation, in a dress, which, at another season, would have certainly raised a mob at his heels.

    The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling 2004

  • I did not immediately go down, but when I did, the group which presented itself, arranged as it was by accident, though not very elaborate, took hold of my fancy and my eye in a way that none of the statuesque attitudes exhibited in the ballets at the Opera-house, though so ostentatiously complex, had ever done.

    Confessions of an English Opium-Eater 2003

  • I know not what may be the state of the Opera-house now, having never been within its walls for seven or eight years, but at that time it was by much the most pleasant place of public resort in London for passing an evening.

    Confessions of an English Opium-Eater 2003

  • Opera-house, the Palais de Justice, and the Préfecture (12 in plan).

    The South of France—East Half C. B. Black

  • The Royal Opera-house at Naples is the largest, the grandest, and the most capacious in the world.

    The Dodge Club or, Italy in MDCCCLIX James De Mille

  • The Opera-house is several hundred feet in length.

    The Dodge Club or, Italy in MDCCCLIX James De Mille

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