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  • Chief Pike had carried the fallen postal thespian into the bracing night air, where Mr. Morrison had revived with a vengeance—wrestling in the snow with Gravesend's determined chief of police, until Mr. Morrison yielded to the strong arm of the law.†  (source)
  • Ivy floats between the Suffering Artists on one side of the aisle and the Thespians on the other.†  (source)
  • Even the Thespians who gave amateur plays once a month clamored for her.†  (source)
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  • Though always routine and uneventful, these meetings tend to follow a certain thespian formality.†  (source)
  • We fall into clans: Jocks, Country Clubbers, Idiot Savants, Cheerleaders, Human Waste, Eurotrash, Future Fascists of America, Big Hair Chix, the Marthas, Suffering Artists, Thespians, Goths, Shredders.†  (source)
  • His face in the small light streaked with black from the rain like some old world thespian.†  (source)
  • Broadway was full of loafing thespians in search of next season's engagements.†  (source)
  • His thespian's voice trailed away while his body sagged with limp resignation.†  (source)
  • He bought a cigar, and went outside on the corner where other individuals were lounging—brokers, racing people, thespians—his own flesh and blood.†  (source)
  • "Sic semper tyrannis," he will bellow in his most vibrant thespian delivery: Thus always to tyrants.†  (source)
  • And indeed, one of America's most famous thespians stands just a few feet away as Lincoln raises his right hand.†  (source)
  • My thespian career, which had lain dormant since I played John Wilkes Booth while at Fort Hare, had a modest revival on Robben Island.†  (source)
  • Inside sat a disk harrow and a moldboard plow, each with its spooned metal seat, and a dilapidated hay wagon whose framework back sagged like a frowning thespian mask.†  (source)
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