"Songstress" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... himself: he brought his hands together in a peculiar manner, in the form of a cask, when he clapped, thereby producing a remarkably sonorous noise. The Princess gave him a large, dishevelled bouquet, which he was to present to the songstress; but the latter did not appear to perceive Kupfer's bowed figure, and his hand outstretched with the bouquet, and she turned and withdrew, again without waiting for the pianist, who had sprung to his feet ...
— A Reckless Character - And Other Stories • Ivan Turgenev
... said the Colonel, "and this is Miss Theo, the soup-maker, the tailoress, the harpsichord-player, and the songstress, who set you to sleep last night. Make a curtsey to the gentleman, young ladies! Oh, I forgot, and Theo is the mistress of the roses which you admired a short while since in your bedroom. I think she has kept some of ...
— The Virginians • William Makepeace Thackeray
... made her debut in Clayton's "Arsinoe, Queen of Cyprus," about 1702, was the first dramatic songstress of English birth, and is described by Colley Cibber as a beautiful woman with a clear, silvery-toned, flexible soprano. Her professional career brought her fortune as well as fame, but was short-lived. In the height of her bloom her reason gave way, and although judicious treatment ...
— For Every Music Lover - A Series of Practical Essays on Music • Aubertine Woodward Moore
... be careful to select, For this an heiress, and for that a beauty; For one a songstress who hath no defect, For t' other one who promises much duty; For this a lady no one can reject, Whose sole accomplishments were quite a booty; A second for her excellent connections; A third, because ...
— The Works of Lord Byron, Volume 6 • Lord Byron
... her grace, Such a treat—or such treating:—did never take place. While the Primrose Dames fretted, the Unionists fumed, She merely the thread of her roundel resumed; And the Duncanites whispered—"'Tis most underhand! We must send for a songstress to match ...
— Punch, Or The London Charivari, Vol. 101, July 25, 1891 • Various
... songstress of the rock, my Caius," said Sergius, half sadly, half playfully; "unless her heart be the rock from which she sings—a rock to me; but the gods have given men other things, when women do not choose to love:—things that will serve ...
— The Lion's Brood • Duffield Osborne
... effect of this kind of eye,—at least upon me. Her features are regular, and rather aquiline—mouth small—skin clear and soft, with a kind of hectic colour—forehead remarkably good: her hair is of the dark gloss, curl, and colour of Lady J * *'s: her figure is light and pretty, and she is a famous songstress—scientifically so; her natural voice (in conversation, I mean) is very sweet; and the naivete of the Venetian dialect is always pleasing in ...
— Life of Lord Byron, Vol. III - With His Letters and Journals • Thomas Moore
... Here the songstress stopped, looked full at her sister, and, observing the tears gather in her eyes, she suddenly flung her arms round her neck, and kissed them away. Jeanie, though hurt and displeased, was unable to resist the caresses of this untaught child of nature, whose good and evil seemed to flow rather ...
— The Heart of Mid-Lothian, Complete, Illustrated • Sir Walter Scott |
