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To anyone who's ever met the real thing, the play-actors dressing up as cowboys in recent years have obviously been all hat and no horse.
Spencer Critchley: Barack Obama, Cowboy (Original Style) Spencer Critchley 2011
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We have a writ out against him and another disreputable fellow, one of the play-actors, for a bill given to
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Too much time had passed without her being able to scrutinze the play-actors in her great drama and make certain that all was well.
Conqueror's Moon May, Julian 2003
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“Perhaps, then” said Russell, “my officers and I should undertake to interview the sundry individuals—play-actors, stage-managers, and so forth—connected to the various dramatic companies currently sojourning in Baltimore.”
Nevermore Harold Schechter 1999
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Straggling play-actors and tightrope dancers had found their way to Paris, besides other amusements which were to be found in this sprightly little town, which had a tendency to make our time pass very agreeably.
Narrative of Richard Lee Mason in the Pioneer West, 1819 Richard Lee Mason
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Great City: "_It is_ a judgment on the inhabitants for their sins, insomuch that they sent to England for a number of play-actors, singers, and _musicians_, who were _actually arrived_; and as a just judgment on the Philadelphians for encouraging these _children of iniquity_, they were now afflicted with the yellow fever."
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[29] We must not confound these Asiatic builders with the play-actors, who were subsequently called by the Greeks, as we learn from Aulus Gellius
The Symbolism of Freemasonry Albert G. Mackey
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Wherefore the occupation of play-actors, the object of which is to cheer the heart of man, is not unlawful in itself; nor are they in a state of sin provided that their playing be moderated, namely that they use no unlawful words or deeds in order to amuse, and that they do not introduce play into undue matters and seasons.
Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province Aquinas Thomas
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In the interests of playwriters and play-actors, I wish to see the playgoer -- our dramatic lawgiver -- be educated; and I think this might be done by means of a "Royal Dramatic Academy."
The Idler Magazine, Volume III, June 1893 An Illustrated Monthly Various
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All them Injuns is crazy to be play-actors, you know.
Ruth Fielding in the Great Northwest Or, The Indian Girl Star of the Movies Alice B. Emerson
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