coryphee
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It would fill the tent in old Noo York, but it’s n. g. in this here country, where everybody’s either a coryphee or a clown or a pantaloon!
From The Maids of Paradise by Chambers, Robert W. (Robert William)
They were suspended by a ribbon that had once done duty in the costume of a coryphee; they rose and fell to the young man's gentle breathing.
From The Auction Block by Beach, Rex Ellingwood
Country-bred as she was, she waltzed like a coryphée.
From The Child Wife by Reid, Mayne
From adventuress to evangelist; coryphée, courtesan, and convert, each in turn.
From The Magnificent Montez From Courtesan to Convert by Wyndham, Horace
A coryphée, pretty and loyal, In amber and red, The ballet she led; Her mother performed at the Royal, Lenore at the Saracen's Head.
From The Book of Humorous Verse by Wells, Carolyn
He suddenly abandoned college, and went off, it was said, with a coryphée.
From Gordon Keith by Page, Thomas Nelson
He gives all his devotions to Nina Beaubien, who dances like a coryphée, and drops her when Alice Renwick comes with her glowing Spanish beauty.
From From the Ranks by King, Charles
Finally, preceded by clouds of gas, the Arch-Comedian in person, supported by spectacled coryphées in brass hats!
From All in It : K(1) Carries On A Continuation of the First Hundred Thousand by Hay, Ian
But these modern coryphées of Rieka and Dalmatia are so forgetful.
From The Birth of Yugoslavia, Volume 1 by Baerlein, Henry
There are twelve coryphées who earn from $25 to $30 per week.
From Lights and Shadows of New York Life or, the Sights and Sensations of the Great City by McCabe, James Dabney
He dined in high places and afterwards supped at the Savoy with the coryphées; and both in the high places and among the coryphées his jewels had made him welcome.
From The Broken Road by Mason, A. E. W. (Alfred Edward Woodley)
In the sixteenth century the winged angels have often a degenerate similitude to tightly laced coryphées, who balance themselves upon their wheels as if they were performing a vaudeville turn.
From Arts and Crafts in the Middle Ages A Description of Mediaeval Workmanship in Several of the Departments of Applied Art, Together with Some Account of Special Artisans in the Early Renaissance by Addison, Julia de Wolf Gibbs
