"Old stager" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... knew, impotent as I was, that I could play it—I could feel the sense of power tingling through my own impuissance. But the first essential was to know the words, and never a word knew I. Luckily Jim the Penman was an old stager, had played the part some two or three hundred times, and so knew most of the ...
— The Making Of A Novelist - An Experiment In Autobiography • David Christie Murray
... You'll surely lose your wager! If you will give me leave henceforth, To lead him softly on, like an old stager. ...
— Faust • Goethe
... from me I can be so fleet that I have Diana looking like old Weston doing a stretch of muddy country road in a coast-to-coast hike. See? Now you help me out on this and I'll see that you don't suffer for it. I'll stick in a good word for you, believe me. You take the word of an old stager like me and ...
— Americans All - Stories of American Life of To-Day • Various
... she said. "The circus rider, James Stirling, on whose account that tall girl Caro, who was also a circus rider, gave that old stager Blanche Taupin a cut right and left across the face with her riding-whip, because she had tried to get him from her...But what can have happened to him, to have brought him down ...
— The Works of Guy de Maupassant, Volume II (of 8) • Guy de Maupassant |
