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 Robert W. (Robert William) Chambers
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 Rex Ellingwood Beach
Country-bred as she was, she waltzed like a coryphée.
From The Child Wife by Mayne Reid
He suddenly abandoned college, and went off, it was said, with a coryphée.
From Gordon Keith by Thomas Nelson Page
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 Carolyn Wells
A coryphée, pretty and loyal,In amber and redThe ballet she led;Her mother performed at the Royal,LENORE at the Saracen’s Head.
From The Bab Ballads by Sir W. S. (William Schwenck) Gilbert
From adventuress to evangelist; coryphée, courtesan, and convert, each in turn.
From The Magnificent Montez From Courtesan to Convert by Horace Wyndham
But these modern coryphées of Rieka and Dalmatia are so forgetful.
From The Birth of Yugoslavia, Volume 1 by Henry Baerlein
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 A. E. W. (Alfred Edward Woodley) Mason
But the coryphées that had danced there were migrating.
From The Perfume of Eros: A Fifth Avenue Incident by Edgar Saltus
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 Ian Hay
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 James Dabney McCabe
