Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A strong desire to go on the stage, or to be an actor or actress.
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Examples
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He advised her to drop the concert idea and dwell wholly upon the possibility of opera as a lure: only the dramatic form and setting could compete successfully in a case of stage-fever like that.
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But the stage-fever was in his blood, and after a short retirement, we find him, in 1771, investing a part of his wife's fortune in a share in the Crow Street
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And without pausing Alice rippled on, ` ` You ought to have seen me when I had the stage-fever!
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But the stage-fever was in his blood, and after a short retirement, we find him, in 1771, investing a part of his wife's fortune in a share in the Crow Street Theatre,
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As for the minor parts, the gentlemen who personated them gave a capital rendering of supers suffering from stage-fever.
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It is a curious thing, but true, that our herd-boys and others were sometimes struck with the stage-fever.
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It is a curious thing, but true, that our herd-boys and others were sometimes struck with the stage-fever.
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Charles take a glass to Evelyn, who was shivering with a sharp attack of stage-fever in an arm-chair, looking over her part.
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Alice rippled on, "You ought to have seen ME when I had the stage-fever!
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