stage-player

“Bucklaw,” said Craigengelt, “I sometimes think you should have been a stage-player yourself; all is fancy and frolic with you.”

The Bride of Lammermoor 2008

For the person or persons that hold dominion, can no more combine with the keeping up of majesty the running with harlots drunk or naked about the streets, or the performances of a stage-player, or the open violation or contempt of laws passed by themselves, than they can combine existence with non-existence.

A Political Treatise 2007

The stage-player, we thought, deserved a place in our narrative quite as well as the public speaker.

The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans Plutarch 2003

It polluteth rather than polisheth; and, under pretense of laudable ornaments, dishonoreth our sermons with childish gauds: as if a prince were to be decked in the habit of a stage-player, or a painted fool.

The Reformed Pastor 1615-1691 1974

So, when we met this morning, he engaged to give me back the child if I would promise to send him a sum of money which he named; and if I would not do so, then he said he would keep the boy, and bring him up as a stage-player.

Amos Huntingdon T.P. Wilson

Did not you turn (I shudder to say it) a common stage-player, sir?

Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 3, July, 1851 Various

Mrs. Vane glanced at her, and with one of those false theatrical gestures that so often become a mode of second nature to a stage-player, clasped her in her arms.

The Picture of Dorian Gray 1931

Nor is this confusion incidental alone to unlettered persons, who, not possessing the advantage of reading, are necessarily dependent upon the stage-player for all the pleasure which they can receive from the drama, and to whom the very idea of what an author is cannot be made comprehensible without some pain and perplexity of mind: the error is one from which persons otherwise not meanly lettered find it almost impossible to extricate themselves.

On the Tragedies of Shakspere Considered with Reference to Their Fitness for Stage Representation 1909

London, where he had bustled and thundered as a stage-player.

The Lady of Loyalty House A Novel 1898

He admitted frankly that his pranks cast him forth from Cambridge, and that he had been a stage-player for a time in London, in proof whereof he declaimed to the amazed Master Vallance many flowing periods from Beaumont,

The Lady of Loyalty House A Novel 1898