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I really liked her first CD, Room With a View, and her second CD, Dress Rehearsal is growing on me.
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I really liked her first CD, Room With a View, and her second CD, Dress Rehearsal is growing on me.
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A week before Demo Day, we have a dress rehearsal called Rehearsal Day.
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Most of us have read Sheridan's Critic before we read Buckingham's Rehearsal, which is not the way to do justice to the earlier piece.
Andrew Marvell Birrell, Augustine, 1850-1933 1905
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Hawkins says (Hist. 705) that in an old comedy called the Rehearsal, the Earth, the Sun, and Moon are made to dance the Hey to the tune of
Shakespeare and Music With Illustrations from the Music of the 16th and 17th centuries 1900
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He wrote a piece called The Rehearsal Transposed, in which he very successfully ridiculed Dr. Parker.
The Lives of the Poets of Great Britain and Ireland Cibber, Theophilus, 1703-1758 1753
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While there are myriad ways actors employ to learn their lines, a new iPhone application called Rehearsal, designed by
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Then there are words that go back into what (for these United States) can be considered the mists of antiquity and are still in circulation, such as war hawk, used in a high-Tory London periodical called The Rehearsal in 1708 and by Thomas Jefferson in a 1798 letter to Madison ("At present, the war hawks talk of septembrizing...") and still going strong in 1999 ("the policy wonk who would become the administration's fierce war hawk").
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The deities of the northern heathens underwent a similar metamorphosis, resembling that proposed by Drawcansir in the "Rehearsal," who threatens "to make a god subscribe himself a devil."
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In his "Rehearsal" Buckingham quizzed fairly enough the fume and bombast of Dryden's tragedies.
History of the English People, Volume VI (of 8) Puritan England, 1642-1660; The Revolution, 1660-1683 John Richard Green 1860
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