coryphee
Example Sentences
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Country-bred as she was, she waltzed like a coryphée.
From The Child Wife by Reid, Mayne
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 Wells, Carolyn
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 Gilbert, W. S. (William Schwenck), Sir
He suddenly abandoned college, and went off, it was said, with a coryphée.
From Gordon Keith by Page, Thomas Nelson
From adventuress to evangelist; coryphée, courtesan, and convert, each in turn.
From The Magnificent Montez From Courtesan to Convert by Wyndham, Horace
