436 examples of masquerades in sentences

" "Masquerades are exciting," murmured Donnegan.

But hear the author's own half-boast, half-apology: "Lara I wrote while undressing after coming home from balls and masquerades, in the year of revelry 1814.

Are not pretenders, mock-patriots, masquerades, operas, birthnights, treaties, conventions, reviews, drawing-rooms, the births of heirs, and the deaths of queens, sufficient to overwhelm any capacity but that of a king?

She discouraged the endless fêtes and balls and masquerades which made her predecessor so popular.

A week before the promised month was up, Moll and her husband came back to the Court, and lest I should imagine that her pleasures had been curtailed by his caprice, she was at great pains to convince me that he had yielded to her insistence in this matter, declaring she was sick of theatres, ridottos, masquerades, and sight-seeing, and had sighed to be home ere she had been in London a week.

she was for ever entertaining the nobility with balls, masquerades, or concerts; and as she was of the blood royal, and highly respected not only on that score, but by the distinguish'd favour of the king, the Chevalier St. George, and the princess his sister, frequently honoured her assemblies with their presence.

But these pompous masquerades without masks (naked names or faces) I hate.

Operas are given at the Argentino, and masquerades at the Aliberti.

It is enough to make one burst with laughing, and, if I had not my cabbages to plant, I would go myself now and again and entertain myself at these masquerades which are as good as the theatres at the fair, and to complete the resemblance, it only costs a couple of sous.

The year 1605 commenced, as had been the case each year since the peace, with a succession of Court-festivals; tilts and tournaments, balls and masquerades, occupied the attention of the privileged; presents of value were exchanged by the sovereigns and princes; and during all this incessant dissipation the Parliament was diligently employed upon the trial of the conspirators.

You'll to Ranelagh and the masquerades with the best.

To be my lady, and to have my jewels, and to go to Ranelagh and the masquerades!

And go to Vauxhall and the Masquerades?

I am, &c.' [Footnote 1: Masquerades took rank as a leading pleasure of the town under the management of John James Heidegger, son of a Zurich clergyman, who came to England in 1708, at the age of 50, as a Swiss negotiator.

When these papers were written he was thriving upon the Masquerades, which he brought into fashion and made so much a rage of the town that moralists and satirists protested, and the clergy preached against them.

Marriage 89, 113, 149, 181, 236, 254, 261, 268, 308, 322, 430, 479, 482, 490, 506, 522, 525, 533, 607 Martial 52, 446 Martyn, Henry 180 (Fn. 1), 200, 232 Masquerades 8, 14 (Fn. 1)

One of the most splendid masquerades was devised by the queen herself.

The doctor, as he bandaged his broken arm, hinted at faint rumors in the city of masquerades and concerts.

If Aesop had not lived so many centuries before the introduction of masquerades and operas, he would certainly have anticipated my observation, and worked it up into a capital fable.

As one of my ancient passions, formerly, was Masquerades, I had a large trunk of dresses by me.

MASQUERADES IN FASHIONA LADY'S CLUB.

Masquerades proceed in spite of Church and King.

She went on building, and made her house a fairy palace for balls, concerts, and masquerades.

She then declared her Masquerades were for the benefit of commerce.

But the agent of so many pleasant masquerades, and the instrument of so much of his artifice, had not a fortitude equal to the buoyant temper of the smuggler.

436 examples of  masquerades  in sentences