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...that Pierce must have taken acting lessons. His flamboyant style in front of an audience was something to behold, academy award work. He impressed ... ...ntial contributors. Alana was seated next to the podium. The music stopped. The audience quieted in anticipation of the press conference. Alana ros... ...oducing the Director of Project Survival, Dr. Richard Hawk." As Hawk rose, the audience responded with kind applause. The two men shook hands and M... ...he earth, we are merely its caretakers, and we have not been taking care!" The audience and media sat silently, not even the usual tin­ kling of wat... ...eft?" Hawk stopped and paused for a moment, and then returned to his seat. The audience was stunned. Someone, in the crowd, began to clap, it slowl... ...d to the door. "Who is it?" "It's Richard, Sir. Richard Hawk." His voice barely audible. Matloch opened the door, "Ah, Richard." "I hope I'm not di... ...k's voice. Brent and Greene moved in the direction of the voice that was barely audi­ b e over the sound of branches scraping in the wind. "I can't ... ...and various CEOs from the private sector." Hacker paused and peered across the audience. "Before I call the first witness to tes­ tifY, are there an... ...cess and reconvene at 2:00 p.m. sharp." The Chairman rapped the gavel, and the audience erupted into an avalanche of chatter. "How do you like your...

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... heinous, bloody deed? TITUS ANDRONICUS : Magni Dominator poli, Tam lentus audis scelera? tam lentus vides ? MARCUS ANDRONICUS : O, calm thee, gent... ...ale; Your hearts will throb and weep to hear him speak. LUCIUS: Then, noble auditory, be it known to you, That cursed Chiron and Demetrius Were they ...

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...me along, great chef, sit you down, drink, and lend us both your ears. The audi- ence is open.” Thereupon the host sat down, but not until he had pour... ...ou should have in I know not what part of your ear—I know not what special auditorial channel, which I know not, what wonderful door, closes I know no...

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...sight of it.’ ‘A friend in England!’—the words had a sinister sound to the audience, and while Malcolm jealously gathered up the book into his arms, t... ...itation, so soon as supper was over, he recited to the eager and delighted audi- tors the tale of patient Grisel, as rendered by Chaucer, call- ing fo... ...hus they waited till the horses’ hoofs and clank of armour were distinctly audible. But even then Sir James, with out- stretched hand, signed his foll... ...ugged his shoulders. He was wise in his own generation; for he had all the audible voices in Paris on his side, while the cavils at Henry’s economy ha... ...nced, that it is sacrilege to aspire to her.’ ‘Ah!’ said the Bishop, in an audible aside to the giggling Countess: ‘this comes of her having thrown he... ...nt to a present breach of vow to save a future one,’ she said, in a scarce audible voice. A sudden thought darted into Malcolm’s mind. With colour flo...

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...oudly called for, has appeared on the stage, and made his obeisance to the audi- ence. Thus far his conduct is a mark of respect. To linger in their p... ...mystery in which certain matters were involved, to gratify himself and his auditors by allusions which found a responding chord in their own feelings,... ...red. But it was no longer possible, consistently with the respect to one’s auditors, to use upon this subject terms either of mystification or of obsc... ...om doing that which would otherwise be no less pleasing to him than to his audience. But this his Lordship, hoped he would be allowed to say (his audi... ...wn ability, and viewing with respectful appre- hension the judgment of the audience you have to act before, yet be assured that judgment will ever be ... ...years, and gave pleasure of no mean kind to many brilliant and fashionable audiences. In her private character she (he begged leave to say) is as rema... ...ead a little more oratorically than I should have ventured to do before an auditor of whose applause I was not so secure. And the result did not entir... ...r I have related them; and whatever might be at first the prejudice of the audience against a crime so un-English as that of assassination from reveng... ...e, moderation, and endurance were considered—the generosity of the English audience was in- clined to regard his crime as the wayward aberration of a ...

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...given up the ghost immediately afterwards, he could not have astounded his audience more. The paper fell from Mr Dorrit’s hand, and he sat petrified, ... ... charmingly adapted in all respects to conversation, I should imagine I am audible in any part of it.’ Some moments passed in silence, before Mr Meagl... ...there was no turning near that he could have taken; nor had there been any audible sound of the opening and closing of a door. Nev- ertheless, he conc... ...o the impartial bo- som; but the utmost revenge the bosom took was, to say audi- bly, ‘A spoilt beauty—but with that face and shape, who could wonder?... ... house were empty; but it was not, for a light was visible, and a step was audible, almost directly. They both came to the door, and a chain grated, a... ... his time for shaking hands. When Mr Sparkler was admitted to this closing audi- ence, Mr Merdle came creeping in with not much more ap- pearance of a... ...t through it all in his patient manner, and admired it all exceedingly. He audited the accounts, as if they were a far more ingenious piece of mechani... ...they stood side by side; but he was so uncon- scious of having repeated it audibly, that he started to hear the next verse. ‘Of all the king’s knig... ...anced, of which, in his choking anger, only the words, ‘Such a dose!’ were audible. ‘Not a bit nearer, Jeremiah!’ cried Affery, never ceasing to beat ...

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...fidel for you, my good neighbours!” said Lambourne, again appealing to the audience. “Here’s a fellow will rip up his kinsman’s follies of a good scor... ...ce on them, to ‘noint the sore withal.” “Ay, rest be with him!” echoed the auditors; “it will be long ere this Lady Elizabeth horsewhip any of us.” “T... ...with the acclamations not only of the better sort who were admitted to the audi- ence-chamber, but of the commons who awaited without. The freedom of ... ...cretion.” “I doubt it not, mine host,” answered T ressilian; and while his auditor remained in anxious expectation, he meditated for an instant how he... ...thout own- ing your merits.—And so help me God,” she added, turning to the audience, who, with various feelings, witnessed this in- teresting scene—”s... ...suitable means to reform your wardrobe.” And so terminated this celebrated audience, in which, as throughout her life, Elizabeth united the occasional... .... DURING THE BRIEF INTERVAL that took place betwixt the dis- missal of the audience and the sitting of the privy-council, Leicester had time to reflec... ...infinitely above him. The whole court consid- ered the issue of this day’s audience, expected with so much doubt and anxiety, as a decisive triumph on... ...bourne, and immediately took his leave. “So, this is the end of my private audience, from which I hoped so much!” he muttered to himself, as he went t...

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...d gave utterance to some beautiful sen timents. I was not so attentive an auditor as I might have wished to be, however, for Peepy and the other chil... ...y and sang so low that the wind, sighing away to the distant hills, was as audible as the music. The mystery of the future and the little clue afforde... ...ow all the songs that ever were writ ten—and Mr. Jarndyce, and I were the audience. After a little while I missed first Mr. Skimpole and afterwards R... ...perience. Mrs. Rouncewell listens. “Wheels!” says she. They have long been audible to the younger ears of her companion. “What wheels on such a day as... ...w that. Even what she read and said seemed to us to be ill chosen for such auditors, if it had been imparted ever so modestly and with ever so much ta... ...v ity. Put the boy aside.” Boy put aside, to the great edification of the audience, especially of Little Swills, the comic vocalist. Now. Is there an... ...e the coroner buttons his great coat, Mr. T ulkinghorn and he give private audience to the rejected witness in a cor ner. That graceless creature onl... ...e true hist’ry on it.” “You see what he is!” the constable observes to the audi ence. “Well, Mr. Snagsby, if I don’t lock him up this time, will you ... ... the set ting sun as a likely place to move on to, the constable bids his auditors good afternoon and makes the echoes of Cook’s Court perform slow m...

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...without meaning. Fortunately, after all such churls have withdrawn from my audience in high displeasure, there remains a large majority who are loud i... ...urn, and by this time, perhaps, se- riously uneasy at her delay, the least audible whisper from herself would in a moment bring one of them to the doo... ...in its ordinary way for the absence of its mother; and such a cry, even if audible at all out of the house, must have been precisely what the neighbor... ...the breathing of the young man, which to himself at times became fearfully audible. As the murderer stood once more over the body of Mrs. Williamson, ... ...impossibility of even whispering any ex- planation, would cause her to cry audibly; and the inevi- table indiscretion of one would be fatal to the two... ... of the missionary; secondly, by vitiating the spiritual atmosphere of his audi- ence—that is, corrupting and misdirecting the character of their thou... ... and spiritual religion, had in a mo- ment untuned the spirituality of his audience. He would find that he had awakened within them the passion of cur... ...don, possessing materials, in that field of art, for the composition of an audience large enough to act as a court of revision. It would be presumptio... ...h to act as a court of revision. It would be presumption in the provincial audi- ence, so slightly trained to good music and dancing, if it should aff...

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...etain you too long, continue to-night. I thank you for this most extensive audience that you have furnished me to-night. I leave you, hoping that the ... ...many things involved in the last general election for President, Governor, Auditor, Treasurer, Superintendent of Public Instruction, Members of Congre... ...e an ar- rangement for you and myself to divide time, and address the same audiences the present canvass? Mr. Judd, who will hand you this, is authori... ...what I uttered at another. What I am saying here I suppose I say to a vast audi- ence as strongly tending to Abolitionism as any audience in the State... ...s and render them enemies to myself, would be offensive to persons in this audience. I now proceed to propound to the Judge the interrogato- ries, so ... ...Judge Douglas’s declaration about the “vulgarity and blackguardism” in the audience, that no such thing, as he says, was shown by any Democrat while I... ...repetition of an answer to it. I trust that nearly all of this intelligent audience have read that speech. If you have, I may venture to leave it to y... ... admission. But he refuses to understand that I said so, and he wants this audience to understand that I did not say so. Y et it will be so reported i... ... I have said that I supposed it could not, and I will try, before this new audience, to give briefly some of the rea- sons for entertaining that opini...

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...antry in the clouds: the knocking at the gate is heard; and it makes known audi- bly that the reaction has commenced: the human has made its reflux up... ...rom my intention. My purpose, 36 I own, was downright murder. “Semper ego auditor tantum?” said I, “nunquamne reponam?” And I went down stairs in sea... ... Michelet, with natural politeness, never forgets that he has left a large audience waiting for him on earth, and gazing upwards in anxiety for his re... ... Ah! no: he is the prisoner at the bar. Already all is waiting; the mighty audience is gathered, the Court is hurrying to their seats, the witnesses a... ...inute and a half. What is it that I shall do? Strange it is, and to a mere auditor of the tale, might seem laughable, that I should need a suggestion ... ...s he chooses his course, he describes two courses, and a voice says to him audibly, “This way lies hope; take the other way and mourn for ever!” Yet, ... ... for our privilege to publish amongst all na- tions. And already, by signs audible through the darkness, by snortings and tramplings, our angry horses... ...en, even up to the revolution, Marie Antoinette almost from necessity gave audience at her toilette. 142 boast in his times, [Greek: aemas eiden ho b...

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... a crocodile’s head and tail roughly carved. The shouts of the others were audible in the distance beyond the belt of trees. Aunt Lily had driven into... ...aried her voice in the most comical way, and the girls, as well as all her audience, laughed heartily. ‘Bravo, Jenny!’ said a voice close to her, and ... ...undle for Miss Hacket’s distribution, and let herself be hauled off to act audience. ‘But where’s Dolly?’ she asked, as she looked at the assem- blage... ... her hair again before she had to forget her maternal feelings and be mere audience, while her two sons were smothered by Mysie and Dolores, converted... ...orn was heard, and a start or shudder of mysterious ecstasy per- vaded the audience, as a tall figure came through the cur- tains, and announced: ‘Lad... ...t the end of the park.’ A good deal more oozed out from Mysie to different audi- tors at different times. By her account everything was de- 228 The T... ...y efforts, ‘so it began.’ There was a manifest inclination to laugh in the audience, who naturally thought her hesitation implied something very diffe...

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... they might, these young women drew all eyes upon themselves; and from the audible comparisons sometimes made between them, it might be imagined that ... ...mmable atmosphere, was trembling sympathetically through the whole excited audi- ence; all depended on a match being applied to this gas whilst yet in... ...ephé podas okus Achilleus.” This being premised, and that every one of the audience, though pretending to no Greek, yet, from his school-boy remembran... ...eature whom she could influence. And, probably, there were in that crowded audi- ence many old Manchester friends of my father, loving his memory, and... ...upied the position of a re- puted boy, nay, a child, in the estimate of my audience, and of a child in disgrace. Time enough had not passed since my e... ...hat is a universal debt. And at this moment, when I see thee called to thy audit by unjust and malicious accusers—men with the hearts of in- quisitors... ...by pompous architectural monu- ments, that a voice may forever be sounding audibly in hu- man ears of homage to these powers, and that even alien feel... ...the attention can be kept from wandering, on this plan, which subjects the auditor to no risk of sudden question or per- sonal appeal. As to the prize... ... of my country render impossible. Music for the deaf! Eloquence without an audience!” 123 Thomas de Quincey emulation from the other fields of orator...

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...utward bound. If I had advertised another miracle I couldn’t have raised an audience with a sheriff. Merlin’s stock was flat. The king wanted to stop... ...n to Artemus W ard. It was about a humorous lecturer who flooded an ignorant audience with the killingest jokes for an hour and never got a laugh; and... ...d A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court Mark Twain 137 to let your audience have a chance to work up its expect ancy. At length, out of th... .... I told him to go home and be patient, this wasn’t the end. I had a private audience with the king, and made a propo sition. I said it was quite rig... ... of knights and hardware and horse flesh. I say we, for the king joined the audience, of course, as soon as he had got his breath again. There was a ... ...e onion is but an unwholesome berry when stricken early from the tree —” The audience showed signs of life, and sought each other’s eyes in a surprise... ...hat plums and other like cereals do be always dug in the unripe state —” The audience exhibited distinct distress; yes, and also fear. “— yet are they... ...fight. Then a tremendous row broke out behind us, and as much as half of our audi ence left us, with a rush, to invest some sympathy in that. Lantern...

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...d by the press censorship of the theatre, or by that sophistication of the audience through press sugges- tion from which I suffer more, perhaps, than... ..., than any other au- thor. Vaudeville authors are fortunately unknown: the audi- ences see what the play contains and what the actor can do, not what ...

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...e) is that it is unconvincing; whilst the imaginary scenery with which the audience provides a platform or tribune like the Elizabethan stage or the G... ...e happiest when they are most unnatural and impossible and absurd, but for audi- ences as well. I have seen performances of my own plays which were to... ...lves in it, and also learn a little how they ap- pear to other people. For audiences of this highly developed class, sex can no longer be ignored or c... ...being bored and tired by the third act, and observing that the rest of the audience were in the same condition, though they were not vigilantly intros...

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... Tonnesen. But you must remember he is so accustomed to address- ing large audiences. Rorlund: I should not call the others low-voiced, either. Hilmar... ... Girl” go to the bottom? Johan: Quite so—why should she? Bernick (scarcely audibly): Go to the bottom? Johan: Well, Karsten, now you know what is befo... ...ircumstances a stranger to this community of ours. (Astonishment among the audi- ence.) To that end, I must begin by deprecating the praises with whic... ...: Now at last you have found yourself! (Speechless consternation among the audience.) Bernick: Yes, friends, I was the guilty one, and he went away. T...

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... the majority. And at that the matter was left. The doors were opened; the audience trooped in; I was called to my place in the dock (so to speak); an... ...ich effectually concealed his dramatic func- tion as executioner; when the audience was simply disappointed at being baulked of the entertainment of h... ...ion is that of the play no objection need be made. But it happens that the auditorium of a theatre, with its brilliant lighting and luxurious deco- ra... ...ing put to disorderly use, and needing special provision for the safety of audiences in cases of fire, etc., cannot be abandoned wholly to private con... ...ow how much money can be made out of them by managers who seek to make the auditorium attractive rather than the stage, you find the managers divided ... ... World before the most sen- sitive and, on provocation, the most turbulent audi- ence in the kingdom. The directors of the Irish Na- tional Theatre, L...

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...t that did not give me power to move. Who will go to the door? I whispered audi- bly. Who is at the door? was the inaudible whisper of my heart. Then ... ...hat open through the heavens.’ Such were the thoughts, thoughts often made audible, which came spontaneously like oracles from afar, as I strode homew... ...ng the arrange- ments for the trial, and some also for the guidance of the audience, which showed the same generous anxiety for spar- ing the feelings... ... cry against the wretched accuser: mighty had been the power over the vast audience of the dignity, the affliction, the perfect simplicity, and the Ma... ...f a great trial would shape themselves and fall into settled im- ages. The audience was assembled, the judges were arrayed, the court was set. The pri... ...hty archangel; and then would roll away thick clouds and vapors. Again the audience, but another audience, was assembled; again the tribunal was estab... ...e lingered, how- ever, as her place entitled her to do, at the door of the audi- ence chamber. She guessed already, but in a moment she heard from pap... ...ompositors are in a fury or not, to mention that the Pope, in his farewell audience to his dear daughter, whom he was to see no more, gave her a gener... ... movement.’ Having thus sufficiently roused the angry passions of his vast audience, and having alarmed their fears by this pre- tended scheme against...

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...sently a door was heard to open below, and a buzz of distant voices became audible. The doctor fidgeted and tried to think of something to say, but hi... ...no angels, and was astonished when, at the conclusion of the fantasia, the audience applauded Ma- dame Szczymplica as if she had made them hear the mu... ...ou not bring me a ce- lebrity or two? I am very anxious to have as good an audi- ence as possible for Herr Abendgasse. However, as it is, he shall hav... ... the other, I said to myself, ‘He’s got himself to persuade as well as his audience. That isn’t the language of conviction.’ Whose—” “Really, sir,” sa... ...gs a night.” “How much more of this nonsense must we endure?” said Lucian, audibly, as Cashel stopped for breath. Cashel turned and looked at him. “By... ...how off the prowess of our civilians, expects what they call a flower-show audience.” “Will you come, Lucian?” “If I can be spared, yes. If not, I wil... ...share her disgust, she turned her attention to the fashionable part of the audience. On the opposite side of the arena the balconies seemed like beds ... ... a climax to slicing lemons, bars of lead, and silk handkerchiefs; and the audi- ence, accustomed to see much more disgusting sights in butchers’ shop... ...tention, and which elicited alternate jeers and applause from the shilling audience below. She laughed out- right when, at the expiration of three min...

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...e alive. Italians don’t love music silently, like the beastly Germans. The audience takes its share— sometimes more. “Can’t we go?” He turned on her, ... ...unds of Ravenswood, and the chorus of Scotch retainers burst into cry. The audience accompanied with tappings and drummings, swaying in the melody lik... ...fill, and Harriet’s power was over. Families greeted each other across the auditorium. People in the pit hailed their brothers and sons in the chorus,... ...ersal joy. So the opera proceeded. The singers drew inspira- tion from the audience, and the two great sextettes were rendered not unworthily. Miss Ab... ...d asked them what had become of Walter Scott. She looked round grimly. The audience sounded drunk, and even Caroline, who never took a drop, was swayi... ...uddenly gathered up her streaming hair and bowed her acknowledgment to the audience. Then from the back of the stage—she feigned not to see it—there a... ... and most of the flowers in it were false. Lucia knew this, and so did the audience; and they all knew that the clothes-horse was a piece of stage pro... ...at her. She spurned it with her foot. Then, encouraged by the roars of the audi- ence, she picked it up and tossed it to them. Harriet was always unfo... ...hilariously. “I left a note this afternoon.” “Silence! silence!” cried the audience, who were be- ginning to have enough. “Let the divine creature con...

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...with the painted panels of its walls filthy with spittle, and conversation audible through the thin partition from the next room, in a stifling atmosp... ... that her box was empty, Vronsky, rousing indignant “hushes” in the silent audi- ence, went out in the middle of a solo and drove home. Anna was alrea...

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... his van. The young man, his companion, is still half reclining and hardly audibly strumming on the accordion. He is little more than a boy, with no t... ...s trot. The turner lashed it on the back time after time… . A knocking was audible behind him, and though he did not look round, he knew it was the de... ...s nervous. She soon grew used to it, however, and began to be liked by the audi- ence. Fenogenov was much displeased. “T o call her an actress!” he us... ... energy that the sound of the blacking-brush and of his expectorations was audible in all the rooms. “What else can I write to him, the rascal?” Nevyr... ... and the prisoner asked only for the classics. In the fifth year music was audible again, and the prisoner asked for wine. Those who watched him throu...

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...amphitheatre gleamed in the flank of a distant hill, cut for some Olympian audi- ence. And here and there, whatever the surface crop, the earth broke ... ... Pembroke’s mouth. He was a practised speaker— that is to say, he held his audience’s attention. He told them that this term, the second of his reign,...

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...rom where they stood in rows on the shelf. But, as that did not satisfy my audience, I devoted all the ware that I could drag out to simi- lar destruc... ...toculführer). Once within the Römer, we even mingled with the crowd at the audiences of the burgomasters. But whatever related to the election and cor... ...lessness inherent in children did not suffer them to remain long a patient audi- ence. They interrupted the play; and we were compelled to seek a youn... ...ortunate to hear him deliver it himself in his lifetime. The philosophical auditorium* was at such times crowded: and the beautiful soul, the pure w... ...om. The word is also used in university lan- guage to denote a professor’s audience. 271 Goethe Frederick the Second still stood at the head of all t...

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...y would fain engulf the people with them.” He ceased, looking round for an audience, for in his bub- bling over the chemist had for a moment fancied h... ...eir balancing-poles. Leon stopped, pointing with a gesture to his sleeping audi- ence; then they talked in low tones, and their conversation seemed th...

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...spers in his ear. Whereupon the poor Cardinal must turn round; and declare audibly; “That his Majesty repents of any subjects of scandal he may have g... ...Redeunt Saturnia regna. The prophetic song of Paris and its Philosophes is audible enough in the Versailles Oeil-de-Boeuf; and the Oeil-de-Boeuf, inte... ...nce can be had, what indications! The Parlements of Besancon and Aix ring, audible to all France, with the amours and destinies of a young Mirabeau. H... ...il-de-Boeuf. For if a distressed People has its cry, so likewise, and more audibly, has a bereaved Court. To the Oeil-de-Boeuf it remains inconceivabl... ... of Abbe Lenfant, ‘whom Prelates drive to visit and congratulate, ’—raises audible sound from her pulpit-drum. (Lacretelle, iii. 343. Montgaillard, &c... ...ow a third largest Deputation is indig- nantly sent by many roads: refused audience on arriving, it meets to take council; invites Lafayette and all P... ...assen- gers must stop, till they have bowed to the People’s King, and said audibly: Vive Henri Quatre; au diable Lamoignon! No car- riage but must sto... ...ful durance; like souls waiting to be born. Speeches are spoken; eloquent; audible within doors and without. Mind agitates itself against mind; 101 T... ...im with young stronger- lunged assistants,—can speak articulately; and, in audible la- mentable words, declare, as we said, that they are an inorganic...

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...n, my lord, said Kissbreech, the foresaid good woman saying her gaudez and audi nos, could not cover herself with a treacherous backblow, ascending by... ...h Panurge, the like mischief also befall the Friar Charmer, who, in a full auditory making a sermon at Pereilly, and therein abominating the reiterati... ...e of the splen- did and illustrious courtiers that were about him, to give audience to a poor certain despicable-like fellow, who through the solicita... ...th all the force of his lungs coughed two or three times, and then with an audible voice pronounced this following sentence: The court declareth that ... ...ianus. ff. ad leg. Fal. l. si is qui quadraginta. Et extra de decim. c. ad audientiam, et de celebrat. miss. c. in quadam. Secondly, they are useful a... ...ded, and finished during his time in the whole palace of Poictiers, in the auditory of Montmorillon, and in the town- 458 Gargantua & Pantagruel hous... ...n the right when he said that if thunder and lightning could not fright an audience into complaisance, the sight of the poet with a rope about his nec... ...ith authorities from Scripture upon navigation; which being ended, with an audible voice prayers were said in the presence and hearing of all the burg... ...ntemplating what is transacted by my domestic ministers. Be spectators and auditors of every par- ticular phenomenon and every individual proposition ...

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...brought to an end. They seem incapable of that plain speaking to the world audience which alone can bring about a peace. They keep on with the tricks ... ...ness of computa- tion. Silly and dishonest men, appealing to still sillier audi- ences, have got themselves and their audiences into humor- ous muddle...

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...it. Describe the man. Describe the fellow be ing. State if there is an audience present; or if they are alone. Y.M. What have these things to do... ...hen? Y.M. I see. Circumstances alter cases. I suppose that if there was no audience to observe the act, the man wouldn’t perform it. Mark T wain 19 O... ...he matter ended in a compromise, I submitted. I al ways did. She wouldn’t audit the bills and let Paine fill out the checks—she would continue to att... ...ther Essays 96 curiosity. There was curiosity enough without that. T o the audience I seemed more interested in my fingernails than I was in my subjec... ...o occasion for color and decoration, since the people sit in the dark. The auditorium has the shape of a keystone, with the stage at the narrow end. T... ...e and impressive device for securing and solidifying the atten tion of an audience long ago; instead of which there con tinue to this day to open a ... ...e pretty features here. You see, the theater is empty, and hundreds of the audience are a good way off in the feeding house; the first bugle call is b... ...was buried like a god. In the opera house there is a long loft back of the audi ence, a kind of open gallery, in which princes are displayed. It is s... .... Yesterday the opera was “T ristan and Isolde.” I have seen all sorts of audiences—at theaters, operas, concerts, lectures, sermons, funerals—but no...

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...t with its destined punishment, the fabu- list might be able to assure his auditors, as we have often to assure tearful children on the like occasions... ...P . Cooke, would not be more out of the key; though the gravity of a Scots audience was not to be overcome, and they merely expressed their disap- pro... ...ng to decline, or her flux of ill words to be exhausted, she dismissed her audi- ence. Francie bowed low, left the room, closed the door be- hind him:... ...ity of type. From time to time a long-drawn groan of adhesion rose in this audience, and was propagated like a wave to the outskirts, and died away am...

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...her in the sentiment of the discourse itself, or in the imagination of the auditors, which made it greatly the most powerful effort that they had ever... ...uaked. An unsought pathos came hand in hand with awe. So sensible were the audience of some unwonted attribute in their minister, that they longed for... ...d die! I look around me, and, lo! on every visage a Black Veil!” While his auditors shrank from one another, in mutual affright, Father Hooper fell ba... ...e muffled female, who had hitherto sat motionless in the front rank of the audience, now arose, and with slow, stately, and unwavering step, ascended ... ...ined no trace of earlier beauty. This figure stood gazing earnestly on the audience, and there was no sound, nor any movement, except a faint shudderi... ...ucceeded by the hysteric shrieks of several women, but the feelings of the audience generally had not been drawn onward in the current with her own. T... ...mpathies of many who mistook their involuntary virtue for a sin. Sobs were audible in the female section of the house, and every man who was a father ... ...whom I commit this most precious trust.” She turned her face upon the male auditors, and after a mo- mentary delay, T obias Pearson came forth from am... ...familiar face, encountered in the midst of wild and unearthly scenery. The auditor paid much attention to these romances, and sometimes interrupted th...

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...so with her un- changing smile. “Madame, I doubt my ability before such an audi- ence,” said he, smilingly inclining his head. The princess rested her... .... The vicomte merely shrugged his shoulders. Pierre looked solemnly at his audience over his spectacles and continued. “I say so,” he continued desper... ... Here Prince Hippolyte spluttered and burst out laugh- ing long before his audience, which produced an effect unfavorable to the narrator. Several per... ...mother: “Mamma!” rang out the clear contralto notes of her childish voice, audible the whole length of the table. “What is it?” asked the countess, st... ...ess and immovable as before. Around him everyone began to stir: steps were audible and whis- pers, among which Anna Mikhaylovna’s was the most distinc... ...eply. Their efforts in the struggle for the portfolio were the only sounds audible, but it was evident that if the princess did speak, her words would... ...de but with a downward look not rising to Rostov’s face, and his sobs were audible. “Count!... Don’t ruin a young fellow... here is this wretched mone... ...ite its game leg—had the happy air of a schoolboy called up before a large audience for an examination in which he feels sure he will distinguish hims... ... treachery , Bonaparte’s new triumph, tomorrow’s levee and parade, and the audience with the Emperor Francis occupied his thoughts. He closed his eyes...

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...e held the book forward. Mr. Casaubon made a dignified though somewhat sad audi- ence; bowed in the right place, and avoided looking at any- thing doc... ...ence of the pedagogue, and rid himself for the time of that chilling ideal audience which crowded his laborious un- creative hours with the vaporous p... ... or “V oi, che sapete,” or “Batti, batti”—she only wanted to know what her audience liked. Her father looked round at the company, delighting in their... ...om morning till night her own standard of a perfect lady, having always an audience in her own consciousness, with sometimes the not unwelcome additio... ...s, with sometimes the not unwelcome addition of a more vari- able external audience in the numerous visitors of the house. She found time also to read... ...g. Instead of getting a soft fence against the cold, shadowy, unapplausive audience of his life, had he only given it a more substantial presence? Nei... ...tract to be represented, but listened to with more or less attention by an audience above. The Santa Clara, which was spoken of in the second place, N... ... chief friend was dead; and they are fortunate who get a theatre where the audience demands their best. Certainly it would have made a consider- able ... ...ho had risen early complaining of palpita- tion, was in the library giving audience to his curate Mr. Tucker. By-and-by Celia would come in her qualit...