opera-boxes

Carriages and opera-boxes, thought he; fancy being seen in them by the side of such a mahogany charmer as that!

Vanity Fair 2006

But, as we have said, she. was growing tired of this idle social life: opera-boxes and restaurateur dinners palled upon her: nosegays could not be laid by as a provision for future years: and she could not live upon knick-knacks, laced handkerchiefs, and kid gloves.

Vanity Fair 2006

They ran of her messages, purchased her gloves and flowers, went in debt for opera-boxes for her, and made themselves amiable in a thousand ways.

Vanity Fair 2006

But we of the eight hundred can no more come up to them in this than we can in their opera-boxes and equipages.

Framley Parsonage 2004

"If Cecilia had been one of those women who delight in horse-racing, fox-hunting, opera-boxes, and public executions, she would have been highly amused to see her old friend's name constantly turning up under such extraordinary circumstances."

Willis the Pilot Paul Adrien

Carriages and opera-boxes, thought he; fancy being seen in them by the side of such a mahogany charmer as that!

XXI. A Quarrel about an Heiress 1917

The scene of the entertainment was a meadow enclosed in an amphitheatre of rocks, with grassy ledges projecting from the cliff like tiers of opera-boxes.

Fighting France 1915

We eat their dinners, and drink their wine, and smoke their cigarettes, and use their carriages and their opera-boxes and their private cars -- yes, but there's a tax to pay on every one of those luxuries.

House of Mirth Edith Wharton 1899

The scene of the entertainment was a meadow enclosed in an amphitheatre of rocks, with grassy ledges projecting from the cliff like tiers of opera-boxes.

Fighting France, from Dunkerque to Belfort Edith Wharton 1899

A little delay, to become yet more rich, and arrange for the safe burying of Bough -- then Van Busch, of Johannesburg, capitalist and financier, would descend upon London in a shower of gold, furnish a house in Hyde Park or Mayfair in topping style; own four-in-hands, and motor-cars, and opera-boxes, and see all Society fluttering to his feet to pick up scattered crumbs of the golden pudding.

The Dop Doctor Richard Dehan 1897