accompanyist

• “Nature had cast this mild-eyed individual for the part of accompanyist in the comedy we call life; a _rôle_ he sometimes varied as now, with the office of _claqueur_, when an uncommonly clever proof of madame's talent for business drew from him this noiseless tribute of applause.”

  In and out of Three Normady Inns

• “I've told her she simply must come to Ruan, and bring the best accompanyist she can find.”

  The Glimpses of the Moon

• “Since other gentlemen are not more obsequious in gallantry, I hereby tender myself for honour of accompanyist and _vade mecum_.”

  Baboo Jabberjee, B.A.

• “Being in comfortable circumstances, highly educated, handsome, attractive, with a mezzo-soprano voice of rare beauty and great skill as a piano-forte accompanyist, she had not only suitors who took her rejection without bitterness, but hosts of friends.”

  Mrs. Warren's Daughter A Story of the Woman's Movement

• “Luigi Carlo Zanobe Salvadore Maria Cherubini was born at Florence on September 14, 1700, the son of a harpsichord accompanyist at the Pergola Theatre.”

  The Great Italian and French Composers

• “With him as her accompanyist, she sang as she could not sing without his aid.”

  Run to Earth A Novel

• “The music, and the audience, and the accompanyist all together were delightful to him.”

  Phoebe, Junior

• “Yet poor Clarence was not an accompanyist to be coveted.”

  Phoebe, Junior

• “As Fagin stepped softly in, the professional gentleman, running over the keys by way of prelude, occasioned a general cry of order for a song; which having subsided, a young lady proceeded to entertain the company with a ballad in four verses, between each of which the accompanyist played the melody all through, as loud as he could.”

  Oliver Twist

• “As Fagin stepped softly in, the professional gentleman, running over the keys by way of prelude, occasioned a general cry of order for a song, which, having subsided, a young lady proceeded to entertain the company with a ballad in four verses, between each of which the accompanyist played the melody all through, as loud as he could.”

  Oliver Twist

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