figurant

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He ventures to hold that as much talent is necessary to constitute a tolerable figurant as to make a good actor.

From A Book of the Play Studies and Illustrations of Histrionic Story, Life, and Character by Cook, Dutton

The French stage has a story of a figurant who ruined at once a new tragedy and his own prospects by an unhappy lapsus linguæ, the result of undue haste and nervous excitement.

From A Book of the Play Studies and Illustrations of Histrionic Story, Life, and Character by Cook, Dutton

But that she might not in the morning discover her erroneous confounding of things, he gave his wax figurant exactly the position which he had occupied at the window.

From Hesperus or Forty-Five Dog-Post-Days Vol. II A Biography by Jean Paul

The infusory chaos of Revel's exhortation had made this weary figurant and mimicker of Death tender and grave.

From Flower, Fruit, and Thorn Pieces; or, the Wedded Life, Death, and Marriage of Firmian Stanislaus Siebenkaes, Parish Advocate in the Burgh of Kuhschnappel. by Jean Paul

Summa theologica," pars III., questio 60 usque ad 85: "Sacramenta efficiunt quod figurant....

From The Modern Regime, Volume 1 by Durand, John