Lexicographical Neighbors of Galleryites
Literary usage of Galleryites
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Stage-land: Curious Habits and Customs of Its Inhabitants by Jerome Klapka Jerome, Bernard Partridge (1889)
"They are a warmhearted people, galleryites, and they like to give a hearty welcome
to old friends. And then, too, the sentiments are so good, and a British ..."
2. Gilbert and Sullivan and Their Operas: With Recollections and Anecdotes of D by François Cellier, Cunningham Bridgeman (1914)
"Anon the galleryites watch the dilatory, dawdling entry of the " upper classes "
to the stalls and boxes. Everybody who is anybody is known to them. ..."
3. The Life of Henry Irving by Austin Brereton (1908)
"So uproarious were the scenes on occasion, that two policemen were always employed
to keep some little check on the galleryites. ..."
4. Enrico Caruso: A Biography by Pierre Van Rensselaer Key, Bruno Zirato (1922)
"A few peremptory Sh-sh-sh! from the ardent galleryites. i "Campanini taps.
His baton rises . . . and suddenly the band mumbles those few swift bars that ..."
5. The Annals of Covent Garden Theatre from 1732 to 1897 by Henry Saxe Wyndham (1906)
"This apology failed to conciliate the angry galleryites, who resorted to their
usual riotous tactics, with the result that later on, on October 1, ..."
6. Annals of the Liverpool Stage, from the Earliest Period to the Present Time by R. J. Broadbent (1908)
"On June 12, of 1797, Mrs. Siddons appeared in Jans Shore. The house was crowded,
and the ' galleryites ' seeing the principal merchants with their ..."
7. Nights in London by Thomas Burke (1918)
"A few peremptory Sh-sh-sh! from the ardent galleryites. Campanini taps. His baton
rises . . . and suddenly the band mumbles those few swift bars that send ..."
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