assignation

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Falstaff's Assignation with Mrs. Ford—from the Merry Wives of Windsor—is remarkably delicate in the execution, possesses good colouring, and is altogether creditable to the painter, Mr. Clint.

From The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 17, No. 478, February 26, 1831 by Various

The same cause for abstaining from tragic composition still remaining in force, Dryden, in 1672, brought forward a comedy, called "The Assignation, or Love in a Nunnery."

From The Dramatic Works of John Dryden, Volume 1 With a Life of the Author by Saintsbury, George

The Assignation, or Love in a Nunnery, a comedy, 1673, was driven off the stage, "against the opinion," as the author says, "of the best judges."

From Lives of the Poets, Volume 1 by Johnson, Samuel

So with the theme of revenge in "The Cask of Amontillado," the theme of mysterious intrigue in "The Assignation."

From The American Spirit in Literature : a chronicle of great interpreters by Perry, Bliss

Assignation or no, she would have seen, had she looked closer, that the young man in question was in no merely beatific or expectant frame of mind.

From The Case of Richard Meynell by Ward, Humphry, Mrs.