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...extremely graceful andpleasing and is full of fun, romance and pathos with little tragedy. The plot involves an amorous king, a crafty minister, a soldier of fortune, a country girl (the beloved of the king), soldiers, nobles, common people and gypsies. Its best songs are "Angels that Around Us Hover" "Of Fairy Wand I the Power," "Let Me Like a Soldier Fall," "There is a Flower that Bloometh," "I am the King of Spain," and "With Rapture Glowing" The cast is as follows: "Maritana," Miss Clara Lane; "Lazarillo," Miss Hattie Belle Ladd; "Charles II, King of Spain...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Special Notice. | 4/14/1896 | See Source »

...also partially protected by padding - who stands close by him on the left, with a blunt sword in his hand. Between the two, but at a safe distance, stands the umpire. Just behind is an attendant with a basin of water, a sponge, and a chair, while the doctors hover round the group like vultures scenting slaughter from afar. The buzz of conversation in the ring is immediately hushed as the umpire calls Silentium, zur Mensur! and announces that two members of such and such Verbindungen will fight for 15 minutes. Then one of the seconds gives the word...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A German Students' Duel. | 3/16/1887 | See Source »

Birds of beautiful plumage with noisy clatter, it is said, hover about these feeding-grounds and find their food in the remnants of the feast of the larger and fiercer animals...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CAUSETTE DE LUNDI. | 3/20/1882 | See Source »

...with saints and angels hover...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "THE ANGEL IN THE HOUSE." | 6/3/1881 | See Source »

...friend George ever fell in love with Alice Hadden is - well, inexplicable. His is one of those swift-dividing intellects that seem perpetually to hover about the line that sunders reason and madness, subject to strange dreams and fancies, imaginative to an unhealthy degree. And she was whole matter-of-fact and commonplace, pretty enough, but - pah! what is such a woman when she grows old? But George was undoubtedly, uncompromisingly in love. And so matters came about that they were engaged to be married...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SELF TO SELF. | 2/11/1881 | See Source »

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