coryphees

The Marches were happy in this allegory, and happier in the ballet, which is everywhere delightfully innocent, and which here appealed with the large flat feet and the plain good faces of the 'coryphees' to all that was simplest and sweetest in their natures.

Complete March Family Trilogy William Dean Howells 1878

The Marches were happy in this allegory, and happier in the ballet, which is everywhere delightfully innocent, and which here appealed with the large flat feet and the plain good faces of the 'coryphees' to all that was simplest and sweetest in their natures.

Their Silver Wedding Journey — Volume 1 William Dean Howells 1878

The Marches were happy in this allegory, and happier in the ballet, which is everywhere delightfully innocent, and which here appealed with the large flat feet and the plain good faces of the 'coryphees' to all that was simplest and sweetest in their natures.

Their Silver Wedding Journey — Complete William Dean Howells 1878

"coryphees" were busy at work about the place with Olga's maid.

West Wind Drift George Barr McCutcheon 1897

Lorelei's shyness at meeting him had quickly disappeared when she found that he knew more theatrical people than she and that he was quite unable to talk interestingly about anything except choruses and coryphees.

The Auction Block Rex Ellingwood Beach 1913

You should see it at evening, all warm and slumberous, all gold and green and purple; or at early dawn, when the mists are fading like pale memories of dreams and the tints are delicate; or again, during a tempest, when it is a caldron of whirling vapors and when the palm-trees bend like coryphees, tossing their arms to the galloping hurricane.

Rainbow's End Rex Ellingwood Beach 1913

From far corners and remote recesses coryphees and court jesters swarm forth to fawn on him, bask in his presence, glory in his smile -- and sell him something.

Europe Revised 1910

Mais ces auteurs etaient les coryphees du paganisme, et plus d'une passage de leur livres blessait la morale severe du christianisme.

NPNF2-08. Basil: Letters and Select Works 1895

There are twelve coryphees who earn from $25 to $30 per week.

Lights and Shadows of New York Life or, the Sights and Sensations of the Great City James Dabney McCabe 1862

Even the peon, in his leathern spencer and calzoneros, moved as gracefully as a professor of the art; and the poblanas, in their short skirts and gay coloured slippers, swept over the floor like so many coryphees of the ballet.

The White Chief A Legend of Northern Mexico Mayne Reid 1850