If any one had seen them without hearing their conversation, he would certainly have thought they were rehearsing some very passionate scene in a tragedy.

The nurse's legends are for truth received, And the man dreams but what the boy believed, Sometimes we but rehearse a former play, The night restores our actions done by day; As hounds in sleep will open for their prey.

No! rouse up the warrior to glory, and he shall return to you with honourable scars; fresh marks of valour shall cover his thigh; and then we shall renew the war-song and dance, and rehearse the story of our achievements.

No matter how exciting a tale we might be rehearsing, the mere shifting of a cloud shadow in the landscape near by was sufficient to change our impulses; and soon we were all chasing the great shadows that played among the hills.

I am satisfied that many children rehearse their parts in the drama of life before they have shed all their milk-teeth.

I rehearsed the speech several times at home and when I left on 3rd June for Belgaum I felt quite confident and well-prepared.

He could not have done it any better had he rehearsed the act a dozen times.

We then rehearsed our former oration on our knees, and produced our letters, and requested the aid of interpreters to translate them.

Jennie Brice was not in the cast that week, but should have reported that morning (Monday) to rehearse the next week's piece.

And for the musical numbers, as we are rehearsing forty-two songs, some of them ought to go.

Sylvia had rehearsed all the possible forms of self-possession for their first meeting; but on the rainy February afternoon when she came in from representing Aunt Victoria at a reception and saw him sitting by the fire, her heart sank down and stopped for an instant, and when it went on beating she could hear no sound but the drumming of her pulse.

Instead of rehearsing facts, the dramatist or the epic poet creates truth.

I had rehearsed that conversation and I carried it through to the end.

He opened the grand piano in the inner drawing-room with such gallantry and effusion that the sanguine countess, post-prandially somnolescent in her luxurious chair, began rehearsing different modes of mentioning her son-in-law, the baron.

I, where the marble swells not, to rehearse Thy hapless fate, inscribe my simple verse.

If the learner can but rehearse the necessary definitions and rules, and perform the simplest exercise of judgement in their application, he cannot but perceive what he must say in order to speak the truth in parsing.

What distressed me most of all, was when I wished to address them upon religious subjects, my foolish interpreter used to say, "You shall not make me a preacher, and I neither will nor can rehearse these words."

The big ball room had been turned over to the society people several days in advance, that the elaborate preparations might be completed in time, and during this period groups of busy, energetic young folks gathered by day and in the evenings, decorating, flirting, rehearsing the fancy dances, and amusing themselves generally.

You might rehearse the poem once a day during the month, or twice a day for the first fifteen days, or the last fifteen days, four times every fourth day, ad infinitum.

At Monte-Carlo, a few days before, they had run across two or three amusing but unassorted people, and the Princess, having fused them in a jolly lunch, had followed it up by a bout at baccarat, and, finally hunting down an eminent composer who had just arrived to rehearse a new production, had insisted on his asking the party to tea, and treating them to fragments of his opera.

"You must leave Rome to-night!" "Leave Rome to-night!" echoed the Greggs as though rehearsing a duet.

The fourfold division of the study of agriculture V. I have rehearsed the elements and the purposes of agriculture, it now remains to consider in how many divisions this science is to be studied.

He was but just now rehearsing his enterprise, and his agitation was increasing at every step.

Yet time would fail should I rehearse Their brave exploits, in simple verse; But there's a class, (I hope not here,)

They have been rehearsing the explosions on the plan I most strongly recommended, that isto fire each chamber by an independent battery and circuit and to discharge the three batteries simultaneously by signal or word of command which answers well and "no mistake.