He was but one of those new potentialities which every whisper from the now cloud-wrapped Continent seemed to be opening this tall, scholar-fighter from the comic-opera land where Mr. Shaw placed his chocolate soldiers.

The Bulgarians, in short, are simple, and what the Rumanians would call "serieux"you must abandon all notion of finding here anything like the little comic-opera kingdoms invented by some of our novelists.

A novel dealing with colored people who lived in respectable homes and amidst a fair degree of culture and who naturally acted "just like white folks" would be taken in a comic-opera sense.

Old man Sanders, who had been in the chorus of different comic-opera companies since he was twenty years old, and who was something of a pessimist, used to take great pleasure in abusing the other members of the company to Andy M'Gee, and in telling anecdotes concerning them which were extremely detrimental to their characters.

We are equally lenient nowadays to many a comic-opera comedian, so called.

There are all kinds of sports, some of them reputable enough in their place, but the comic-opera fox-hunting which takes place at Pau and Biarritz is not one of them....

“I don’t play for services; they’re afraid to let me for fear I’d run comic-opera tunes into the Te Deum!”