"Premiere" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... dimmed, then brightened. The picture cleared, and amazingly, another figure emerged, a woman. I recognized her; it was Whimsy White, erstwhile star of television and premiere of the "Vision Varieties of '09." She was changed on that picture, but I ...
— The Worlds of If • Stanley Grauman Weinbaum
... Desha had eyed Garrison somewhat queerly on being first introduced, but he had a poor memory for faces, and was unable to connect the newly discovered nephew of his neighbor and friend with little Billy Garrison, the one-time premiere jockey, whom he ...
— Garrison's Finish - A Romance of the Race-Course • W. B. M. Ferguson
... M. Alexandre, the bookkeeper. In this room the customers are received by a tall and very elegant young lady, invariably dressed in black satin in winter and black silk in summer. Through this soft-spoken person, who bears the title of premiere vendeuse, or first saleswoman, the customers are put into communication either with the great artist himself or simply with one of the premieres, or heads of departments, if their orders are not of sufficient importance to justify an interruption of ...
— Lippincott's Magazine, October 1885 • Various
... nothing is wasted. A placard outside the butcher's announces an "Occasion" consisting of a mule and a donkey, both of guaranteed "premiere qualite." And the butcher! A thick-set, powerfully built fellow, with blue-black hair, curly like a bull's and shining in pomade, with fierce mustache of the same dye, waxed to two formidable points like skewers. Dangling over his white ...
— The Real Latin Quarter • F. Berkeley Smith
... extremely tall, thin youth, pirouetting on his toes, and waving a long trail of ground pine about his head in true premiere danseuse fashion. ...
— Marjorie Dean High School Freshman • Pauline Lester
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