46 Verbs to Use for the Word farces

Secondly, I'm game to give an account for all my deeds, now that I've played the farce out, and lost.

What discipline, my lords, can be established by men, whom those who sometimes act the farce of obedience, know to be only phantoms of authority, and to be restrained by an arbitrary minister from the exercise of those commissions which they are invested with?

My Tales (again) and Charles's Farce has made the boy mad to turn Author; and he has written a Farce, and he has made the Winter's Tale into a story; but what Charles says of himself is really true of Martin, for he can make nothing at all of it; and I have been talking very eloquently this morning, to convince him that nobody can write farces, &c., under thirty years of age.

" Thus ended the mighty farce which for more than two months held in suspense the hopes and fears of three nations.

But the Chinese would have it; there was no lack of foreign traders, chiefly British and American, ready to run the risk of smuggling it for the sake of the large profits to be made upon it; and the custom-house officials, both natives and foreign inspectors, hardly even kept up the farce of pretending to ignore the fact.

For him, thou oft hast bid the world attend, Fond to forget the statesman in the friend; For Swift and him, despised the farce of state, The sober follies of the wise and great; Dexterous the craving, fawning crowd to quit, And pleased to 'scape from flattery to wit.

In a lively satire of the time, by Richard Duke, it is asserted that Villiers was occupied with the composition of The Rehearsal from the Restoration down to the day of its production on the stage: "But with playhouses, wars, immortal wars, He waged, and ten years' rage produced a farce.

Mr. BATEMAN'S appeal is double, for, having enjoyed his broad or subtle farce and his keen satirical observations, one may turn to the admiration of his technique, or vice versâ*.

He blushed, tried to write, fingered his curls, and then gave himself over to despair; whereupon Mr. Bouncer was seized with an immoderate fit of laughter, which brought the farce almost to an end.

Jamieson conveyed the farce from me to Mrs. C. Kemble; he will not be in town before the 27th.

But no, señor, they prefer to continue the old farce and say, 'I, the king, by the grace of God.'

"The Begums betray, if possible, a still greater anxiety to be served cheaply; high words are heard on every side, and the loud and scurrilous quarrels of the buyers and sellers create a complete farce.

I am the last to defend the old French farce with its ten or a dozen doors through which the characters kept scuttling in and out like rabbits in a warren.

About the time of Sulla the mimes seem to have displaced these old farces in popular favour, perhaps because their fun was more varied; the mere fact that the actors did not wear masks shows that the improvisation could be freer and less stereotyped.

After this, as an additional punishment, they were compelled to face the farce of a "fair trial" in a capitalistic court.

Mary Lamb, writing to Sarah Stoddart at about the same time, says: "Charles is gone [to the lodging] to finish the farce, and I am to hear it read this night.

An appeal to arms has its own special formalities; and these have developed into a rigid and precise system of laws and regulations, together forming the most solemn farce there isa regular temple of honor dedicated to folly!

This much accomplished, he hurried away to Washington, where he was received with open arms by the President and his advisers, who at once proceeded with a united and formidable effort to legalize the transparent farce by Congressional sanction.

The next day or so, February 21, she says that she liked the farce "very much, and cannot help having great hopes of its success"stating that she has carried it to Mr. Wroughton at Drury Lane.

at night also, until I seemed to be living a tragic farce!

"You still maintain that farce?"

But he comes back on Saturday, when I will mention the farce to him without fail.

A dream of himself in a heroic light sometimes made him poke himself in the ribs, and mock the farce of human vanity.

July, 1829as "an old rejected farce"; and Canon Ainger mentions a note of Lamb's to Charles Mathews, in October, 1828, offering the farce for production at the Adelphi.

Rochefort and Flourens performed this farce in politics, the former talking, the latter gesticulating; but on the day of the burial of Victor Noir they went different ways.

46 Verbs to Use for the Word  farces