But with me! Cain, between which and the Cenci lies the award of the greatest single performance in dramatic shape of our century, raised a storm.

" These unique and horrifying snake dances of the Moki have been described so often that I need not speak of this performance in detail.

"Andy, are you glad you joined the circus?" questioned Luke, one day, after a particularly brilliant performance in the ring.

He even meditated an evasion of the law by getting it acted in a place which was not a theatre, and tickets were actually issued for the performance in a saloon which was often used for rehearsals, when a royal warrant peremptorily forbidding such a proceeding was sent down from the palace.

"Tristan and Isolde" was completed in 1859, and Wagner would have much preferred to have its performance in Paris commanded by Napoleon in place of "Tannhäuser."

One successful performance in the Virginia House of Delegates established a reputation which the Declaration of Independence has made immortal.

He himself would enter the theatre in the garb of Mercury, and casting off everything else begin his performance in simple tunic and unshod.

As to the performance in a literary point of view, the Author will say nothing.

I know that well, for were I not assur'd Of your performance in this enterprice, I would not ope the closet of my brest, To let you know my close intention.

These are the proportions which will give a maximum performance in every case.

In the tumult of business, interest and passion have their genuine effect; but a friendly letter is a calm and deliberate performance in the cool of leisure, in the stillness of solitude, and surely no man sits down by design to depreciate his own character.

Of course it is understood that every graduating class rightfully asserts, and is backed up in its belief by doting and nobly partisan relatives and blindly devoted, hyperbolic friends, that its particular, unique and proper senior dramatics is the most glorious and unforgettable performance in all the histrionic annals of the college, a thing to make Will Shakespeare himself rise and applaud from his high and far off hills of Paradise.

There were scores of stout men acting as lieutenants, captains, majors, etc., of slight performance in those capacities, but who, had they been formed into companies, and asked to fight now one night, at this desperate juncture, for the haciendas General Walker had promised them, would have done willing, perhaps, and excellent service.

Of course the whole of this enterprise, as far as the bombardment and attack were concerned, cannot be compared with the magnitude of a similar performance in 1915.

This unique performance in metal, is in every respect a perfect resemblance of the original, and weighs several tons; the ground of it is bronzed, and at the present time highly relieved in light and shade; but I understand it will, when complete, be considerably more so, by two novel and distinct processes of oxydation, that will endure for ages.

The task system, on the other hand, was instituted on the rice coast, where the drainage ditches checkering the fields into half or quarter acre plots offered convenient units of performance in the successive processes.

It was that fact, more than any other, save one, which lent intrepidity to Flora's perpetual, ever quickening dance on the tight-rope of intrigue; a performance in which her bonny face had begun to betray her discovery that she could neither slow down nor dance backward.

The madrigal is a piece of vocal music adapted to words of an amorous or cheerful cast, composed for four, five, or six voices, and intended for performance in convivial parties or private musical societies.

The performance in that way will be more interesting to me.

Vasari speaks of "his many friends whom he delighted by his admirable performance in music," and his death caused "extreme grief to his many friends to whom he was endeared by his excellent qualities."

No one who saw her fine performance in "The Profligate" could easily forget it, and I shall never understand why the London public ever let her go.

Another time when Henry and I were playing in some charity performance in which John Drew and Maude Adams were also acting, he disgraced himself again.

Her Rosalind, her Country Wife, her Helena, her performance in "The Railroad of Love"!

But the boys knew that the band playing in the circus tent meant that the performance in the ring was about to begin.

A word recently introduced and now overworked, meaning a task, or performance in one's trade, or calling,doubtless a variant of stint, without that word's suggestion of allotment and limitation.