play-actress

What the Clavering folks thought of Mrs. Pendennis for spoiling her son, and of that precocious young rascal of an Arthur for daring to propose to a play-actress, need not be told here.

The History of Pendennis 2006

Too honest, however, to make a play-actress, Valerie had reckoned without stage-fright ....

Anthony Lyveden Dornford Yates 1922

But no child of mine walks the streets of Onabasha looking like a play-actress woman.

A Girl of the Limberlost 1909

"Britten," she says, almost like a play-actress on the stage of a theatre, "Britten, do you know what happened last night?"

The Man Who Drove the Car Max Pemberton 1906

She shook her head and began the play-actress style.

The Man Who Drove the Car Max Pemberton 1906

Prelate's character, his incapacity for detecting the play-actress in the passionate, imploring woman.

A German Pompadour Being the Extraordinary History of Wilhelmine van Grävenitz, Landhofmeisterin of Wirtemberg 1905

"Oh, the play-actress!" thought Perenna, raging within himself.

The Teeth of the Tiger Maurice Leblanc 1902

It was as if a play-actress had changed her character and not her attire, which suited another part.

The Heart's Highway: A Romance of Virginia in the Seventeenth Century 1900

This paragraph was copied by the leading paper of his native city, and his father wrote to know if it were really true that he was about to marry a play-actress.

The Light of the Star A Novel Hamlin Garland 1900

Why, 'twas but the other day that the Duke of Clarence, who may come to call himself King of England, married Mrs. Jordan, who is herself only a play-actress.

Rodney stone Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir, 1859-1930 1896