"Mime" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... able young man saw his chance, and did as good a bit of acting as ever was extemporized even by an Italian mime. ...
— The Woman-Hater • Charles Reade
... are—" The woman looked her over again. "Perhaps a dancer, or maybe a mime, running away because your ...
— Nicanor - Teller of Tales - A Story of Roman Britain • C. Bryson Taylor
... As a wag Presbyterian's a thing quite to see; And, 'mong the Five Points of the Calvinists, none of 'em Ever yet reckoned a point of wit one of 'em. But even tho' deprived of this comical elf, We've a host of buffoni in Murtagh himself. Who of all the whole troop is chief mummer and mime, And Coke takes the Ground Tumbling, he the Sublime;[1] And of him we're quite certain, so pray come ...
— The Complete Poems of Sir Thomas Moore • Thomas Moore et al
... remain to be represented, both of which are hinted at in "Young Siegfried", the first in the long narrative of Brynhild after her awakening (Act III.), the second in the scene between Alberich and the Wanderer in the second act and between the Wanderer and Mime in the first. That to this I was led not only by artistic reflection, but by the splendid and, for the purpose of representation, extremely rich material of these motives, you will readily understand when you ...
— Correspondence of Wagner and Liszt, Volume 1 • Francis Hueffer (translator)
... varicoloured or patchwork coat; compare the Shakespearian use of 'motley'. Similarly the maquereaux of the old French comedy were clothed in a mottled dress like our harlequin, just as the Latin maccus or mime wore a centunculus or patchwork coat, his name being perhaps connected with macus (in macula), a spot (Gozzi, Memoirs, i, 38). In stage slang the harlequin was called patchy, as his ...
— English Past and Present • Richard Chenevix Trench
... is that he was an enfranchised Syrian slave, anative of Antioch, and wrote for the stage mimes (farces) which were performed with great applause. Mime-writing was also practised at this time by the Knight Laberius, and Caesar is said to have patronised these writers in the hope ...
— Helps to Latin Translation at Sight • Edmund Luce
... hotel bill, and, at the very last, ordered my own generous assortment of liquors and cigars and charged the bill to the schooner. Such a to-do! All three of them raged and all but tore their hair . . . and mime. They said it could not be. I fell promptly sick. I told them they got on my nerves and made me sick. The more they raged, the sicker I got. Then they gave in. As promptly I grew better. And here we are, out of water and heading soon most likely for the Marquesas to fill ...
— Michael, Brother of Jerry • Jack London
... Saint Leonard's chime And the great bell loud and deep:— Say the gossips, 'Let's talk of the holy time When the shepherds watched their sheep; And the Babe was born for all souls' crime In the weakness of flesh to weep.'— But, anon, shrills the pipe of the merry mime And ...
— Christmas: Its Origin and Associations - Together with Its Historical Events and Festive Celebrations During Nineteen Centuries • William Francis Dawson |
