stage-box

Now a woman as beautiful as Esther, and dressed as Esther was, could not show off with impunity in a stage-box at the

Scenes from a Courtesan's Life 2007

Whenever success, on feet of clay, fills a house, there is always a stage-box to be had ten minutes before the curtain rises.

Scenes from a Courtesan's Life 2007

Etienne and Lucien entered the stage-box, and found the manager there with Finot.

A Distinguished Provincial at Paris 2007

The manager appeared to say that the Duc de Rhetore and Tullia the opera-dancer were in the stage-box, and they had consented to allow Lucien to join them.

A Distinguished Provincial at Paris 2007

A certain amount of time was wasted in controversies with the box-keepers in the lobbies, when Etienne said, “Let us go behind the scenes; we will speak to the manager, he will take us into the stage-box; and besides, I will introduce you to Florine, the heroine of the evening.”

A Distinguished Provincial at Paris 2007

Poor Pen and Sir Derby Oaks were very constant at the play: Sir Derby in the stage-box, throwing bouquets and getting glances. —

The History of Pendennis 2006

Lady Seraphina shoots from the stage-box, and which Venus would quit her immortality to be able to equal.

The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling 2004

He must take a stage-box where one may be almost invisible, and if the Countess should still not wish to go, he would have Annette accompanied by her father and the

Strong as Death 2003

We had very good places in the box next the stage-box, front and second row; the three old ones behind of course.

Jane Austen, Her Life and Letters A Family Record Richard Arthur Austen-Leigh

-- Lord Bolingbroke was so pleased with Barton Booth's performance of _Cato_, at Drury Lane Theatre, in 1712, that he presented the actor with fifty guineas from the stage-box -- an example which was immediately followed by Bolingbroke's political opponents.

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