Word: movements
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...chorus, while singing, will execute a simple, but rhythmical dance movement, with more or less pantomime; but care will be taken to avoid any thing ridiculous...
...back scene will be the conventional Greek palace, with three doors. The seats will be taken from the floor of the theatre, in order that the thymele may be placed in its proper position for the movement of the chorus around it, as it comes in from the two parodoi, on the sides...
...could see merely her side face. The clock on the mantelpiece struck the hour, but she stirred not. I wished to see the book she was reading. I speculated as to what it was. I felt that I must see her face, must see the book. I made a movement to change my position. She must have heard me, for she started, looked up; then with a cry of "Horrors!" she fell forward fainting upon the floor. I turned my back and - smiled...
...inclined to bucket, and does n't swing straight; five fails in reach; six's hands trouble him on the catch; seven does n't shoot quick enough or hold his hands tight; and eight is apt to overreach. All sliver out, bucket badly, and lack rhythm in movement...
...crew. Their feathering is fair, but they do not use their legs well, being more or less unsteady, and the port is noticeably worse than the starboard. The reinforcement of Mr. Brigham caused some changes in positions which necessarily makes the whole crew a little uneven in movement at first; these are faults, however, which, under their excellent coach and with practice on the river, ought soon to disappear. All things considered, therefore, the prospects of the crew are not at all gloomy...