coryphee
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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
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
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 Charles King
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
He suddenly abandoned college, and went off, it was said, with a coryphée.
From Gordon Keith by Thomas Nelson Page
Country-bred as she was, she waltzed like a coryphée.
From The Child Wife by Mayne Reid
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
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 Julia de Wolf Gibbs Addison
Who has not sympathized in the joy of Madame de Sevigné, at seeing her fair daughter exhibit among the coryphées!
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 341, March, 1844 by Various
A representation of Christ holding a cross aloft was given, and winged angels were hovering here and there, much in the same manner as coryphées and lesser auxiliaries of the ballet.
From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 15, No. 85, January, 1875 by Various
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
But these modern coryphées of Rieka and Dalmatia are so forgetful.
From The Birth of Yugoslavia, Volume 1 by Henry Baerlein
