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The soubrette had a lank young body neatly attired in a store suit and shirt-waist.
ANCESTORSGERTRUDE ATHERTON
I thought that the frozen surface of the American woman thawed on the stratum soubrette.
ANCESTORSGERTRUDE ATHERTON
And, like Brighella, written comedy blended her with the fixed characters of drama under the name of the soubrette.
THE MEMOIRS OF COUNT CARLO GOZZI; VOLUME THE FIRSTCOUNT CARLO GOZZI
She was even more successful in comedy, and no better soubrette had been seen since the days of Madeleine Bjart.
QUEENS OF THE FRENCH STAGEH. NOEL WILLIAMS
Miss Richland has a very pretty face, but she looks more like a soubrette or smart actress than a woman of fashion.
BLACKWOOD'S EDINBURGH MAGAZINE, VOLUME 68, NO. 417, JULY, 1850VARIOUS
A very bright little cross-fire sketch between a retired major and a jolly soubrette.
THREE HATSALFRED DEBRUN
Maggie Oliver, an irrepressible and most clever soubrette, was ever happy and a source of pleasure to us all.
THE CHRONICLES OF A GAY GORDONJOS MARIA GORDON
The soubrette saves the intended victim from death, the would-be assassin is disgraced, and the play "ends happily."
THE FOOTLIGHTS FORE AND AFTCHANNING POLLOCK
Eva said it was the kind of thing a soubrette would use, rather than an elderly business man.
CHEERFUL--BY REQUESTEDNA FERBER
The soubrette, however, made up for her mistress's want of appetite, and ate plentifully of all that was set before her.
CORSE DE LEON, VOLUME I (OF 2)G. P. R. JAMES

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