Word: hear
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...sober "grind" confronts us in tights. Then we gather before the glass, and apply the blacking and rouge. Our helmets and lances are supplied, and we are ready for the drill. Coming down the mountain-side is particularly trying; the narrow path cracks beneath our strides, while we hear from our critics a medley of "Slow step!" "Far apart!" "Never do!" "Close up!" The orchestra begins, and we await our cue; but one, a body-guardsman, anxious for a solo, steps out from the wings, sees his mistake, and retires in confusion. Another one is told to "pick up that...
...interesting side of a man's experience as super is the insight he gets into the characteristics of the prominent artists. So amusing to hear Nillson, fresh from the Tower scene, ask in our prosaic English for some pins for her sash. Another, too, lamenting in heart-rending tones the fate of Radames, and then with her back to the audience pouting at us in the wings in regular school-girl fashion, because she had soiled her hands on the dusty scenery. And then the rage of a Signor who was driven from the stage to give room...
...hear, with pleasure, that the Cambridge Operatic Society, by the earnest solicitation of their friends, will repeat, on next Tuesday evening, the comic opera entitled "The Doctor of Alcantara." In the first rendering of this opera the amateur company are entitled to commendation for a performance of more than average merit. The Tenor sang with especial feeling and spirit, and altogether, his was open to less unfavorable criticism than any other performance of the evening. Miss M. K. Shackford, in the delivery of her principal arias, was admirable both in tone and style. The chorus showed excellent training, and deserves...
Well, - we did n't hear the rest...
...hark! I hear from yonder dark church-tower...