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Romeo and Juliet
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  • It could have been like a Romeo and Juliet thing with her loving me the first time she saw me and thinking that we could be like big-time moviemakers and then go to Hollywood and be stars and whatnot.   (source)
  • I don't know how Heathcliff and Cathy ended up being ranked with couples like Romeo and Juliet or Elizabeth Bennet and Mr. Darcy.   (source)
  • They had become a fixed star in the shifting firmament of the high school's relationships, the acknowledged Romeo and Juliet.   (source)
  • "Or since Romeo and Juliet," Belle suggested.   (source)
  • It was like a forbidden romance —like Romeo and Juliet, which I'd read in English class that semester.   (source)
  • It's like you're Romeo and Juliet with the whole forbidden lovers thing.   (source)
  • To tell you the truth, it was sort of embarrassing, in a way, to be talking about Romeo and Juliet with her.   (source)
    Romeo and Juliet = Shakespeare's best known work
  • At school when we commenced studying Romeo and Juliet, the drama that might or might not be going on up at Grandpa's house laid itself down on every line Shakespeare wrote about love or marriage.   (source)
    Romeo and Juliet = main characters and title of Shakespeare's best known work; a tragedy of forbidden love
  • "Romeo and Juliet?" she said skeptically.   (source)
  • Booth was at the height of his fame and good looks, delighting women across the country with his performance as the male lead in a traveling production of Romeo and Juliet.   (source)
  • Look at Romeo and Juliet; they're what, like, fourteen years old, and they meet at a party and barn, jump in bed.   (source)
  • "Just like Romeo and Juliet," Mrs. Whitshank said.   (source)
  • Finch: I hate to be all Romeo and Juliet about this, but I want to see you alone.   (source)
  • In Romeo and Juliet.   (source)
  • Upstairs in his room the Savage was reading Romeo and Juliet.   (source)
  • It was a movie theater and the marquee had letters made of rainbows: Romeo and Juliet.   (source)
  • We, who have learned to base our interpretation of love on the conventional boy-and-girl romance of Romeo and Juliet, would be amazed if we could step back into the Middle Ages—when the poet of chivalry could write about Man that he had "en del un dieu, par terre une deesse."   (source)
  • It's Romeo and Juliet.   (source)
  • But the real triumph was reserved for Christine Daae, who had begun by singing a few passages from Romeo and Juliet.   (source)
  • Then he remembered that the Reggie Chiverses, whose house was a few doors above, were taking a large party that evening to see Adelaide Neilson in Romeo and Juliet, and guessed that the two were of the number.   (source)
  • "I think it would be lovely to present 'Romeo and Juliet'!" yearned Ella Stowbody.   (source)
  • Miss Wilkinson oddly enough had suggested that they should read Romeo and Juliet together; but Philip had firmly declined.   (source)
  • It was 'Romeo and Juliet.'   (source)
  • After breakfast the king he took a seat on the corner of the raft, and pulled off his boots and rolled up his britches, and let his legs dangle in the water, so as to be comfortable, and lit his pipe, and went to getting his Romeo and Juliet by heart.   (source)
  • A chanting cherub adorned the cover of the sugar bucket, and attempts to portray Romeo and Juliet supplied kindling for some time.   (source)
  • Romeo and Juliet with the loveliest Juliet is dry, tedious, and rhetorical in comparison with Wagner's Tristan, even though Isolde be both fourteen stone and forty, as she often is in Germany.   (source)
  • In "Romeo and Juliet" Juliet has to be important, just as, in "Adam Bede" and "The Mill on the Floss" and "Middlemarch" and "Daniel Deronda," Hetty Sorrel and Maggie Tulliver and Rosamond Vincy and Gwendolen Harleth have to be; with that much of firm ground, that much of bracing air, at the disposal all the while of their feet and their lungs.   (source)
  • Only let him be tolerably well up in the Apothecary in Romeo and Juliet, with the slightest possible dab of red on the tip of his nose, and he'd be certain of three rounds the moment he put his head out of the practicable door in the front grooves O.P.' 'You view him with a professional eye,' said Nicholas, laughing.   (source)
  • —Romeo and Juliet.   (source)
  • I wrote a sketch based on Romeo and Juliet about corruption.   (source)
    Romeo and Juliet = Shakespeare's best known work; a tragedy of forbidden love
  • I hope never to be mortally stabbed, but if I am, I'd sure like to have the self-possession, when asked if it's bad, to answer, "No, 'tis not so deep as a well, nor so wide as a church door; but 'tis enough, 'twill serve," as Mercutio does in Romeo and Juliet.   (source)
  • I kept thinking of my school bag at home with copies of Oliver Twist and Romeo and Juliet waiting to be read and the Ugly Betty DVDs on the shelf.   (source)
  • Especially knowing how she felt about Romeo and Juliet.   (source)
    Romeo and Juliet = main characters and title of Shakespeare's best known work; a tragedy of forbidden love
  • I was invited as guest artist to dance with a number of companies worldwide after Romeo and Juliet.   (source)
  • Romeo and Juliet is required reading in every freshman-year health class.   (source)
  • Romeo and Juliet are just two rich kids who've always gotten every little thing they want.   (source)
  • Then I tried longer books: Romeo and Juliet was one of my favorites.   (source)
  • Tell us, why has Romeo and Juliet survived four hundred years?   (source)
  • I loved the story of Romeo and Juliet and the Prokofiev score, but the rehearsals were grueling.   (source)
  • I don't know if that's why Romeo and Juliet has become the most beloved play of all time.   (source)
  • I, well, I haven't watched Romeo and Juliet yet for English.   (source)
  • That sounds a lot like Romeo and Juliet.   (source)
  • I read The Return of the Native by Thomas Hardy, and Romeo and Juliet and Julius—   (source)
  • That's why people still remembered his name, always twined with hers: Romeo and Juliet.   (source)
  • "Well, I'm not too crazy about Romeo and Juliet," I said.   (source)
  • She probably wanted to get off the subject of Romeo and Juliet.   (source)
  • Romeo and Juliet, at least it was their own fault.   (source)
  • I mean I felt much sorrier when old Mercutio got killed than when Romeo and Juliet did.   (source)
  • I just used that scene in the beginning of Romeo and Juliet when those guys were dissing each other and then the scene where Romeo was talking his stuff to Juliet.   (source)
  • The guy who wrote Romeo and Juliet?   (source)
  • —From the cautionary tale Romeo and Juliet, by William Shakespeare, reprinted in 100 Quotes to Know for the Boards, by The Princeton Review   (source)
  • The opening night of Romeo and Juliet was one of the biggest events in the history of the Houston Ballet.   (source)
  • Strangely, in that moment I think back to what I answered all those months ago, at my first evaluation, when I was asked about Romeo and Juliet and could only think to say beautiful.   (source)
  • I read Shakespeare's play over and over and watched as many Romeo and Juliet movies as I could get my hands on.   (source)
  • But for a ballet that told a story like Romeo and Juliet, I had to gather all my experiences together so I could somehow make the Romeo role more real for myself and for the audience.   (source)
  • Then came Romeo and Juliet.   (source)
  • "I've been trying to do that in a long poem," Lorenzo said, "you know, Romeo and Juliet today, only she's black and he's white—"   (source)
  • You have Romeo and Juliet memorized.   (source)
  • Well, I wasn't going to live without you, he'd said as we watched Romeo and Juliet die, here in this very room.   (source)
  • I remembered with painful clarity his words that day on the sofa, while we watched Romeo and Juliet kill themselves, one after the other.   (source)
  • Romeo and Juliet, Act II, Scene VI =========================================================================== PREFACE I FELT LIKE I WAS TRAPPED IN ONE OF THOSE TERRIFYING nightmares, the one where you have to run, run till your lungs burst, but you can't make your body move fast enough.   (source)
  • Oh, Romeo and Juliet!   (source)
  • He remembered how Helmholtz had laughed at Romeo and Juliet.   (source)
  • The Savage was reading Romeo and Juliet aloud-reading (for all the time he was seeing himself as Romeo and Lenina as Juliet) with an intense and quivering passion.   (source)
  • and the balcony scene in Romeo and Juliet.   (source)
  • The voice was singing the Wedding-night Song from Romeo and Juliet.   (source)
  • A picture of the balcony scene in Romeo and Juliet hung there and beside it was a picture of the two murdered princes in the Tower which Aunt Julia had worked in red, blue and brown wools when she was a girl.   (source)
  • I would have you sit under a leafy tree side by side, and read together Romeo and Juliet; and then I would have you fall on your knees and on my behalf kiss the ground on which her foot has left its imprint; then tell her it is the homage of a poet to her radiant youth and to your love for her.   (source)
  • The world renowned tragedians, David Garrick the Younger, of Drury Lane Theatre London, and Edmund Kean the elder, of the Royal Haymarket Theatre, Whitechapel, Pudding Lane, Piccadilly, London, and the Royal Continental Theatres, in their sublime Shakespearean Spectacle entitled The Balcony Scene in Romeo and Juliet !   (source)
  • Now, Mrs Curdle was supposed, by those who were best informed on such points, to possess quite the London taste in matters relating to literature and the drama; and as to Mr Curdle, he had written a pamphlet of sixty-four pages, post octavo, on the character of the Nurse's deceased husband in Romeo and Juliet, with an inquiry whether he really had been a 'merry man' in his lifetime, or whether it was merely his widow's affectionate partiality that induced her so to report him.   (source)
  • "harp not on that /nor/ do /not/ banish treason," and in "Romeo and Juliet,"   (source)
  • He's a nice pattern of a Romeo and Juliet.   (source)
  • He was himself a lord of language and had made himself a coistrel gentleman and he had written Romeo and Juliet.   (source)
  • As he'd passed by them, Rasheed had playfully said, "If it isn't Laili and Majnoon," referring to the star-crossed lovers of Nezami's popular twelfth-century romantic poem-a Farsi version of Romeo and Juliet, Babi said, though he added that Nezami had written his tale of ill-fated lovers four centuries before Shakespeare.   (source)
    Romeo and Juliet = Shakespeare's best known work; a tragedy of forbidden love
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