Word: cast
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...dark beauty. Her face was of rather a heavy cast, yet her features were strongly marked. Her forehead was high and exquisitely moulded, her mouth and chin large and round, and her eyes full, restless, and glowing. A rich clear color trembled through the brown of a cheek that had been tanned by exposure to sun and wind. She had the most beautiful hair that any woman has worn since Helen. It was a soft dark brown, rich, thick, and tremulous...
...jumble of much fancy, more fiction, and little truth! What a parade of illogical thoughts! What a procession of ill-constructed sentences! And what shall one say of the system that produces such a result? what of the tree that bears such fruit? Does it not deserve to be cast down and thrown into the fire...
BOSTON THEATRE. - Only two more performances will be given by Mapleson's Opera Company. Tonight "Aida" is given, with Miss Cary, Mme. Ambre, Campanini, Galassi, and Behrens in the cast. Tomorrow afternoon will be the last performance, and Mile. Marimon will appear as Lucia. It is needless to say that this is an unusually good opportunity for hearing these operas well given. On Saturday evening an entertainment will be given by the "Blood-good Combination," and next week Denman Thompson appears in his excellent assumption of Joshua Whitcomb...