playactor

One time he would be a playactor, then a sutler or a welsher, then nought would keep him from the bearpit and the cocking main, then he was for the ocean sea or to hoof it on the roads with the romany folk, kidnapping a squire's heir by favour of moonlight or fecking maids 'linen or choking chicken behind a hedge.

Ulysses James Joyce 1911

"No; I wouldn't be willin 'to see you a playactor," he said, "walkin 'round in skin tights, with your face all painted up."

Calvary Alley Alice Caldwell Hegan Rice 1906

'I strove to transform myself into another man, and, like a playactor, to reassume the character, manners and emotions of a past period.

Renaissance in Italy, Volumes 1 and 2 The Catholic Reaction John Addington Symonds 1866

"I didna ken ye," said Blue Peter, "in sic playactor kin 'o' claes."

The Marquis of Lossie George MacDonald 1864

'But he needna hae gane aboot it in sic a playactor-like gait.

Robert Falconer George MacDonald 1864

Stephen scripts Bloom as a tragic anti-hero, but Penelope, as much a storyteller as Stephen and a playactor as Bloom, does some improvising of her own (in true screwball fashion), and she just may be the rewrite he's been waiting for.

GreenCine Daily 2009

Stephen scripts Bloom as a tragic anti-hero, but Penelope, as much a storyteller as Stephen and a playactor as Bloom, does some improvising of her own (in true screwball fashion), and she just may be the rewrite he's been waiting for.

GreenCine Daily 2009

Stephen scripts Bloom as a tragic anti-hero, but Penelope, as much a storyteller as Stephen and a playactor as Bloom, does some improvising of her own (in true screwball fashion), and she just may be the rewrite he's been waiting for.

GreenCine Daily 2008

One time he would be a playactor, then a sutler or a welsher, then nought would keep him from the bearpit and the cocking main, then he was for the ocean sea or to hoof it on the roads with the romany folk, kidnapping a squire’s heir by favour of moonlight or fecking maids’ linen or choking chicken behind a hedge.

Ulysses 2003