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In the first production, Coward took the part of Frank, a soldier, survivor and cautious character, married to Ethel, who turns from a girl who's very pleased not to be a war widow into a woman who produces gales of mirth when she gives her sloshed hubby a wigging in her dressing-gown, and who is last seen as a stiff-jointed, stalwart granny.
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Light imagines that Woolf must have appeared a “fragile woman” 10 years her senior, “in an old dressing-gown propped up on the sofa.”
Imperfect Union 2009
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I had said good-bye to him that morning, lounging in a dressing-gown on the be-pillowed window couch and delivering himself of oracular and pessimistic epigrams.
Chapter 4 2010
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It was useless, however, and at midnight, when I heard the watch changing, I partially dressed, slipped into my dressing-gown, and went up on to the poop.
CHAPTER X 2010
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I was too agitated to think about furniture and wandered out onto the front steps—yes, scandalous: a pregnant, unmarried actress and chief mistress of the King of England lounging about her front stoop in her dressing-gown.
Exit the Actress Priya Parmar 2011
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Miss West, swathed in a woollen dressing-gown, her eyes heavy still with sleep, her hair glorious and for the once ungroomed, clinging in the doorway that gave entrance on the main cabin, met my startled gaze with an equally startled gaze.
CHAPTER XXX 2010
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Light imagines that Woolf must have appeared a “fragile woman” 10 years her senior, “in an old dressing-gown propped up on the sofa.”
Imperfect Union 2009
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Light imagines that Woolf must have appeared a “fragile woman” 10 years her senior, “in an old dressing-gown propped up on the sofa.”
Imperfect Union 2009
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More cream of tartar, more reading, more vain attempts to sleep, until shortly before five, when the steward brought me my coffee, I wrapped myself in my dressing-gown, and like a being distracted prowled into the cabin.
CHAPTER XIII 2010
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I was too agitated to think about furniture and wandered out onto the front steps—yes, scandalous: a pregnant, unmarried actress and chief mistress of the King of England lounging about her front stoop in her dressing-gown.
Exit the Actress Priya Parmar 2011
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