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  • The audience demanded an encore.†   (source)
  • Je vous salue encore!†   (source)
  • He also organized a cadre of professional applauders, known as a "claque," to provide enthusiastic ovations, demand encores, and cry "Brava!" for any performer willing to pay.†   (source)
  • As a valentine to the appreciative crowd, Ma and Ax encore with a selection from Mendelssohn's Song Without Words, then take their bows.†   (source)
  • If it means bringing Misery back for an encore, you'll do it.†   (source)
  • The roar of applause came from thousands of shimmering purple ghosts, the Lares of Rome brought back for an encore performance.†   (source)
  • And so, between operatic encores and Neapolitan serenades, his creative talent and his invincible entrepreneurial spirit made him the hero of river navigation during the time of its greatest splendor.†   (source)
  • Scrawled there in Liz's block lettering is the last song before we leave for the inevitable encore.†   (source)
  • Give me a line, I'll give you an encore.†   (source)
  • It was an elegant room filled with celebrities excitedly focused on the sensational new star rendering his famous, backed-by-violins version of "I'll Be Seeing You" and encoring with his latest self-composed ballad: Every April flights of parrots Fly overhead, red and green, Green and tangerine.†   (source)
  • Then he came back for his encore.†   (source)
  • That's the end in the beginning and there's no encore.†   (source)
  • They look the other way when there are-encore, Francois?†   (source)
  • Encores of flags.†   (source)
  • Well, that's good, because I'm not sure I have an encore in me.†   (source)
  • Theresa gave an encore; the family leaned over the rail like operagoers, glorying in the sound.†   (source)
  • POZZO: Encore!†   (source)
  • ...with encores GUIL smashes the PLAYER across the face.†   (source)
  • Y a encore bien, bien des blancs cote-quila.†   (source)
  • My audience liked that one; they applauded—I think it was applause—so, for an encore, I tried to shift the belt up around my chest to enable me to hang more or less straight down—and maybe get off an arrow or two.†   (source)
  • He turned his head gently back toward the stage, where an encore was being played.†   (source)
  • There, they're encoring you—they're bound to have you back!   (source)
    encoring = asking for an extra performance from
  • I felt prouder than you did when it was encored.   (source)
    encored = upon completion of a performance, asked to give an extra performance
  • He said they would encore me.   (source)
    encore = upon completion of a performance, request an extra performance
  • "They won't dream of encoring me," scoffed Anne, who was not without her own secret hopes that they would, and already visioned herself telling Matthew all about it at the next morning's breakfast table.   (source)
    encoring = upon completion of a performance, ask for an extra performance
  • You're welcome to join the girls and me for yet another encore of A Christmas Story.†   (source)
  • I doubt anyone will miss it, and I might want an encore performance.†   (source)
  • 'All I'm saying is that getting the Sharp Cereal Professor to do another spot seems about as shrewd to me as having Richard Nixon do an encore State of the Union address.†   (source)
  • 'Oh, that was easy,' says Man, and for an encore goes on to prove that black is white and gets himself killed on the next pedestrian crossing.†   (source)
  • I didn't understand what an encore was then and I wasn't prepared, and the stagehands had already started to change the scenery for the next ballet.†   (source)
  • So don't ask for an encore.†   (source)
  • Bien encore.†   (source)
  • An encore would be nice.†   (source)
  • No encore?†   (source)
  • So I had to come up with an encore.†   (source)
  • Encore!†   (source)
  • Encore!†   (source)
  • Scarlett was much pleased with herself, for not only had she and Melanie rendered a touching duet, "When the Dew Is on the Blossom," followed as an encore by the more sprightly "Oh, Lawd, Ladies, Don't Mind Stephen!" but she had also been chosen to represent the Spirit of the Confederacy in the last tableau.†   (source)
  • Pas encore.†   (source)
  • At the end of the program the show lengthened out into an informal series of encores which Sieveking bestowed, very amiably, I thought, upon a few enthusiasts grouped round the piano.†   (source)
  • "Pas encore," said Miss Ferguson.†   (source)
  • Encore un peu, Madame?†   (source)
  • Encore.†   (source)
  • We want a little something to answer encores with, anyway.†   (source)
  • She received another enthusiastic encore.†   (source)
  • Encore vingt ou trente ans de cette vie-ci, et puis nous songerons a nous.†   (source)
  • "Let's try to make them encore," she said, applauding.†   (source)
  • I wonder if Encore Edwards knows as much as I thought he did?†   (source)
  • By request, she gave "An Old Sweetheart of Mine" as encore.†   (source)
  • This evening Encore was giving one of his small and popular At Home's.†   (source)
  • 'That'll be a double ENCORE if you take care, boys,' said Mr Crummles.†   (source)
  • Vous m'excuserez, mais vous voyez....Revenez vers dix heures, encore mieux demain.†   (source)
  • From all around and everywhere, the shout went up: "Encore!†   (source)
  • I got another encore; and another, and another, and still another.†   (source)
  • As he turned over the pages his eye fell on the poem about the hand of Lacenaire, the cold yellow hand "du supplice encore mal lavee," with its downy red hairs and its "doigts de faune."†   (source)
  • He was standing again well dressed, smiling, good-natured, the recipient of encores for a good story.†   (source)
  • 'Il faisait encore un crepuscule.†   (source)
  • His idol was Professor Edward Edwards, head of the department of chemistry, who was universally known as "Encore."†   (source)
  • The boy who writes the lyrics stands in the corner, biting a pencil, with twenty minutes to think of an encore; the business manager argues with the secretary as to how much money can be spent on "those damn milkmaid costumes"; the old graduate, president in ninety-eight, perches on a box and thinks how much simpler it was in his day.†   (source)
  • He told too of how the top gallery of the old Royal used to be packed night after night, of how one night an Italian tenor had sung five encores to Let me like a Soldier fall, introducing a high C every time, and of how the gallery boys would sometimes in their enthusiasm unyoke the horses from the carriage of some great prima donna and pull her themselves through the streets to her hotel.†   (source)
  • After this a gentleman sang a song called Bid me Good-bye, and as an encore obliged with Sing me to Sleep.†   (source)
  • As encore to "An Old Sweetheart of Mine," she gave a peculiarly optimistic poem regarding the value of smiles.†   (source)
  • Everyone was applauded till he gave an encore, and so that there might be no jealousy no one was applauded more than anyone else.†   (source)
  • There was a great deal more clapping when she finished, and when this was over, as an encore, she gave a piece which imitated the sea; there were little trills to represent the lapping waves and thundering chords, with the loud pedal down, to suggest a storm.†   (source)
  • Ordinarily Encore would have suggested, with amiable malice, that Gottlieb was a "crapehanger" who wasted time destroying the theories of other men instead of making new ones of his own.†   (source)
  • On the campus he met that jovial historian of chemistry, Encore Edwards, and begged, "Say, Professor, tell me, is there any value for a doctor in organic chemistry?"†   (source)
  • And the great god Sondelius had slain Dean Silva, as Silva had slain Gottlieb, Gottlieb had slain "Encore" Edwards the playful chemist, Edwards had slain Doc Vickerson, and Vickerson had slain the minister's son who had a real trapeze in his barn.†   (source)
  • To any listener outside the door it would have been the reverse of obvious why the "Drink, boys, drink!" should have such an immediate and often-repeated encore; but once entered, he would have seen that all faces were at present sober, and most of them serious—it was the regular and respectable thing for those excellent farm-labourers to do, as much as for elegant ladies and gentlemen to smirk and bow over their wine-glasses.†   (source)
  • Then laugh aloud, and cry encore!†   (source)
  • Even Miss M. Melvilleson, in the revived Caledonian melody of "We're a-Nodding," points the sentiment that "the dogs love broo" (whatever the nature of that refreshment may be) with such archness and such a turn of the head towards next door that she is immediately understood to mean Mr. Smallweed loves to find money, and is nightly honoured with a double encore.†   (source)
  • And he resumed his ditty, as he plunged rapidly through the streets, and this is what died away in the gloom:— "Mais il reste encore des bastilles, Et je vais mettre le hola Dans l'orde public que voila.†   (source)
  • Now it happened that this song, then in the height of the fashion, had been given to the young ladies by a young friend of theirs, whose name was on the title, and Miss Swartz, having concluded the ditty with George's applause (for he remembered that it was a favourite of Amelia's), was hoping for an encore perhaps, and fiddling with the leaves of the music, when her eye fell upon the title, and she saw "Amelia Sedley" written in the comer.†   (source)
  • 'Jeune encore,' as the French say.†   (source)
  • At its conclusion (while the music was performing a symphony as if ever so many birds were warbling) the whole house was unanimous for an encore: and applause and bouquets without end were showered upon the Nightingale of the evening.†   (source)
  • encore!†   (source)
  • "More, more!" said Lucy, when the duet had been encored.†   (source)
  • Otherwise he would be encoring it every time we had a good subject, and that would be inconvenient, because I hadn't any more bombs along.†   (source)
  • Rebecca was as frank and fond of Mrs. Bute as if the other had never been her enemy; she was affectionately interested in the dear girls, and surprised at the progress which they had made in music since her time, and insisted upon encoring one of the duets out of the great song-books which Jim, grumbling, had been forced to bring under his arm from the Rectory.†   (source)
  • "Unless you're contemplating an encore performance for the edification of Mrs. Baird," I suggested, "you'd better get dressed.†   (source)
  • Encore deux minutes.†   (source)
  • There was the unanimous opinion that there was none to come up to her and suffice it to say in a place of worship for music of a sacred character there was a generally voiced desire for an encore.†   (source)
  • Encore, enclap, said, cried, clapped all, Ben Dollard, Lydia Douce, George Lidwell, Pat, Mina Kennedy, two gentlemen with two tankards, Cowley, first gent with tank and bronze miss Douce and gold MJiss Mina.†   (source)
  • Encore!†   (source)
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  • a daughter like mine or see if they can excite a swell with money that can pick and choose whoever he wants like Boylan to do it 4 or 5 times locked in each others arms or the voice either I could have been a prima donna only I married him comes looooves old deep down chin back not too much make it double My Ladys Bower is too long for an encore about the moated grange at twilight and vaunted rooms yes Ill sing Winds that blow from the south that he gave after the choirstairs performance Ill change that lace on my black dress to show off my bubs and Ill yes by God Ill get that big fan mended make them burst with envy my hole is itching me always when I think of him I feel I want to I fee†   (source)
  • TUTTI: Encore!†   (source)
  • Encore vingt sous.†   (source)
  • Encore!†   (source)
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