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  • THINK ABOUT IT: Will the play-house, play-school set play church?

    Play house. Play school. Now, play church? 2011

  • But alf han our – the door-keeper forced his way into the pit, and called out – 'Pray, is one Miss Tyrold here in the play-house?'

    Camilla 2008

  • We have been at the play-house several time; and, give me leave to say, Madam, (for I have now read as well as seen several), that

    Pamela 2006

  • There is, however, nothing to the story that Sarah Bernhardt had also come out on the Lafayette or that she “presented a drama in the wretched little box of a play-house that was then the only theater in the city.”

    The Path Between the Seas DAVID McCULLOUGH. 2005

  • There is, however, nothing to the story that Sarah Bernhardt had also come out on the Lafayette or that she “presented a drama in the wretched little box of a play-house that was then the only theater in the city.”

    The Path Between the Seas DAVID McCULLOUGH. 2005

  • This was, to attend Mrs. Miller, and her younger daughter, into the gallery at the play-house, and to admit Mr. Partridge as one of the company.

    The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling 2004

  • This account, in some measure, excited our curiosity, and, at the entreaty of the ladies, I was prevailed upon to accompany them to the play-house, which was no other than a barn.

    The Vicar of Wakefield 2004

  • I met him at Drury-lane play-house in the evening.

    The Life of Samuel Johnson LL.D. 2004

  • With very little hesitation, therefore, she went through the whole story of what had happened at the play-house, and the cause of her hasty return.

    The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling 2004

  • In reality, I apprehend every amorous widow on the stage would run the hazard of being condemned as a servile imitation of Dido, but that happily very few of our play-house critics understand enough of

    The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling 2004

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