Vietnam or Thailand ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
Updated: June 2, 2025
His English was without accent, but at times suddenly entangled itself in curious Gallic constructions. "Then I propose we begin at once," he announced. "The second act to-night, then, if we have time, the third act from the book. And I expect the second act to be letter-perfect let-ter-per-fect. There is nothing there but that."
He must have had to put aside his Warwickshire dialect, which wouldn't be understood in London, and study English very hard. Very hard indeed; incredibly hard, almost, if the result of that labor was to be the smooth and rounded and flexible and letter-perfect English of the "Venus and Adonis" in the space of ten years; and at the same time learn great and fine and unsurpassable literary FORM.
"You would have some difficulty in doing that," said the first actor, "she doesn't wear any." "So much the better." "You know nothing about it," said the actress. These remarks put us all in high spirits, and the ministers of Thalia ended by promising that they would dispense with a prompter. I was pleased with the way the piece was read, and they said they would be letter-perfect in three days.
The rose that is too easy plucked is not worth wearing. And do thou give only promises and never fulfil them, I'd baulk him of every kiss he thinks to win!" A day went by, and though I had become even letter-perfect in my new rôle I had not the chance to play it to my audience; but it came at last. It was in the long, dreamy hour of the early afternoon, when sleep comes easiest.
The latter's job then would have been to get up from his chair and step outside and bear the word to Sig Gulwing, who, letter-perfect in the part of the conspiring telegraph manager, would promptly enter and present himself to Marr, and by Marr be introduced to the Westerner.
'Twas but a child's pebble-toss across the barrier stream, and we could both see and hear. "I give you joy of your escape, Mistress Margery," said the baronet, mouthing his words like a player who had long since conned his lines and got them well by heart and letter-perfect. "These slippery savages have given us a pretty chase, I do assure you.
He allowed himself, in a semistupefied condition, to be engaged. He took the part, sat up all night in his boarding-house and learned it, went to rehearsal almost letter-perfect in the morning, and nervously prepared to face the ordeal of the evening. At six o'clock, he wished to go to the manager and give up the part. "I can never do it," he wailed to me.
"You hint at the true reason so chivalrously, so delicately," she said, "that I scarcely recognise it." The cool mockery of her voice and the warm, quick colour tinting neck and face were incongruous. He thought with slow surprise that she was not yet letter-perfect in her rôle of the material triumphant over the spiritual.
It was while he was in the midst of the Beatitudes that he heard the low rumble of the coming train, and it was only by resolutely ignoring the sense of hearing that he was enabled to get through, letter-perfect.
And Schmittenberg tells me you know where he is." Blake, as he spoke, continued to look heavily down at his desk top. "Yes?" she answered cautiously, watching herself as carefully as an actress with a rôle to sustain, a rôle in which she could never quite letter-perfect. "It's Connie Binhart," cut out the Second Deputy. He could see discretion drop like a curtain across her watching face.
Word Of The Day
Others Looking