(The audience smile).

I offered my card and asked for a place in the audience as a reporter.

None but a very intelligent audience, and educated in his system of philosophy would understand his logic or appreciate his wit and humor at the expense of royalty and Christianity.

They are creatures of the same sort of imagination as we see in the story-teller of Venice and Naples, who lays a hat on the ground and waits until an audience is assembled.

of aturdir, perturbed, confused, bewildered, stupefied, astonished, agitated. aturdir, to disturb, confuse, bewilder. auditorio, m., audience. aullar, to howl. aún (or aun), even, still, yet; no ... ni , not even; cuando, although; que, although. aunque, although. aura, f., gentle breeze, zephyr. aurora, f. dawn. ausencia, f., absence. ausente, absent.

concurrente, m., person present; bystander, spectator; pl., assembly, congregation, audience.

She could tell a story in clear and lively, if not always correct and elegant English, and she could describe the ecstasies and agonies of passion in a way that seemed natural and convincing to an audience nurtured on French romans à longue haleine and heroic plays.

Since the ultimate disaster of adventurous heroines was regarded as a sop to moral readers, Mrs. Haywood frequently failed to gratify her audience with a happy ending, but occasionally a departure from strict virtue might be condoned, provided it took place in a country far removed from England.

Without either diagrams or notes, the accomplished lecturer kept his audience in breathless attention for upwards of an hour.

Our own Observatory had just been finished; and if the audience will permit, I will state briefly my own observations upon the planet.

And there I sat, with feelings which no one in this audience can realize.

It was a fine, though formidable, opportunity to plead the cause of the despised and oppressed sons of Afric before an audience of so much learning and intelligence.

" For more than an hour Gough kept the vast audience enchained by his varied and charming talk.

" The spectator-philosopher attitude of audience to the world's stage passed.

"In the morning, yes," answered Jack; and he was smiling again in a way that swept the audience with uncanniness.

But one story just before Harte that astonished the fiction audience with its power and art was Harriet Prescott Spofford's (1835- ) The Amber Gods (January and February, 1860, Atlantic), with its startling ending, "I must have died at ten minutes past one."

What happened was this: The audience got together, attracted by Governor Gorges's name.

The audience were disappointed, but waited.

The audience rose in a whirl of amazement, rage, and sorrow.

George looked round his audience, but their eyes did not meet his.

Nothing is easier than to describe unwritten literary masterpieces in outline; but by that time I had thoroughly convinced my audience and myself, and we looked upon these things as completed books.

I droned steadily away, interrupted only by cries for fresh supplies of wine; as I went on the audience paid less and less attention.

After the close of the service in the chapel, the minister proceeded to the adjacent school room, and preached to another crowded audience.

After the addresses the audience were served with refreshments, previous to which the Rector read the following lines, which were sung to the tune of Old Hundred, the whole congregation standing.

Whenever allusions were made to the grout blessings which God had conferred upon them in delivering them from bondage, the audience heartily responded in their rough but earnest way to the sentiments expressed.