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  • Excerpted from the Cervantes novel, the ballet sees the elderly Don (Petr Stasyunas) mistaking the innkeeper's Kitri for Dulcinea, his imaginary feminine ideal, and in the process helping her to outwit her father, who wants to marry her off to Gamache (Soslan Kulaev), a rich fop.

    Mariinsky Ballet: Don Quixote; Balanchine/Robbins triple bill – review 2011

  • The touching penultimate scene—in which the Schoolmaster (the bracing tenor Keith Jameson) quietly weeps over his hopeless love for the town beauty Terynka, and the innkeeper's wife (Tami Petty) tells the Forester that the Parson, who has moved away, is homesick—was played for laughs.

    The Beauty of the Beasts Heidi Waleson 2011

  • The bitter wind swept into the room, blowing out candles and swirling the innkeeper's papers around.

    Finnegan teoriza la practica de cuerdas Carlos G.Tonda 2010

  • I understood the sorrow of hurricanes when the innkeeper's husband lightly touched her shoulder as she listed what she had lost in the storm, but I didn't understand that garbage couldn't be exquisite -- and I still don't.

    Caroline Hagood: Making Trash Sculptures in Hurricane Season 2010

  • This person, it developed, was the village sempstress, recruited to repair the deficiencies of my wardrobe by adjusting the fit of a dress, obtained on short notice from some local connection of the innkeeper's.

    Sick Cycle Carousel 2010

  • I left after breakfast, my clothing mended very neatly by the innkeeper's wife.

    Enjoyment 2010

  • I understood the sorrow of hurricanes when the innkeeper's husband lightly touched her shoulder as she listed what she had lost in the storm, but I didn't understand that garbage couldn't be exquisite -- and I still don't.

    Caroline Hagood: Making Trash Sculptures in Hurricane Season 2010

  • I gained my new innkeeper's perspective when I hosted my husband's family one Thanksgiving week a few years back.

    Eileen Ogintz: Hosting Thanksgiving Is No Picnic -- Some Survival Tips Eileen Ogintz 2010

  •  The innkeeper's daughter helped me to pack and hide in her wagon.

    Settled 2010

  • I gained my new innkeeper's perspective when I hosted my husband's family one Thanksgiving week a few years back.

    Eileen Ogintz: Hosting Thanksgiving Is No Picnic -- Some Survival Tips Eileen Ogintz 2010

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