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  • He considered the artiste's exclamation and assumption of displeasure as mere artful tricks designed to deceive him.

    Monte-Cristo's Daughter Edmund Flagg

  • We are glad to know, however, that the artiste's credit will not suffer from this harsh exclusion.

    The Royal Guide to Wax Flower Modelling Emma Peachey

  • But in his dreamy, wild intoxication he saw the artiste's eyes open wide in surprise, as a sad smile flitted across her lips.

    The Torrent Entre Naranjos Vicente Blasco Ib����ez 1897

  • The form of her head was so good that she could dare to carry it without a chignon, or any adventitious adjuncts from an artiste's shop.

    The Eustace Diamonds Trollope, Anthony, 1815-1882 1872

  • French system of cookery, the secret of which consisted, according to his cook's interpretation, in a complete transformation of the natural taste of each dish; in this _artiste's_ hands meat assumed the flavour of fish, fish of mushrooms, macaroni of gunpowder; to make up for this, not a single carrot went into the soup without taking the shape of a rhombus or a trapeze.

    A Sportsman's Sketches Works of Ivan Turgenev, Volume I Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev 1850

  • The form of her head was so good that she could dare to carry it without a chignon, or any adventitious adjuncts from an artiste's shop.

    The Eustace Diamonds Anthony Trollope 1848

  • The nurse states that she herself was very poor; that the lady's offer appeared to her like a permanent provision; that the life of this artiste's infant was of the utmost value to her -- the life of my poor daughter's child of comparative insignificance.

    What Will He Do with It? — Volume 11 Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838

  • Duke of Stilton, a horrid person, who told me the other day, at my petit diner, when I apologized to him for some strange error of my artiste's, by which common vinegar had been substituted for Chili -- who told me -- what think you he told me?

    Pelham — Volume 06 Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838

  • He thought that in witnessing the applauses bestowed on actors, and sharing in the fascination in which theatrical illusion holds an audience, my old passion for the stage, and with it the longing for an artiste's fame, would revive.

    The Parisians — Complete Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838

  • He thought that in witnessing the applauses bestowed on actors, and sharing in the fascination in which theatrical illusion holds an audience, my old passion for the stage, and with it the longing for an artiste's fame, would revive.

    The Parisians — Volume 01 Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838

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