What is "theatres"

Usage examples of "theatres".

In the early part of October, 1746, the theatres being opened, I was walking about with my mask on when I perceived a woman, whose head was well enveloped in the hood of her mantle, getting out of the Ferrara barge which had just arrived.

The halls of the theatres are capital places for amateurs to exercise their talents in intriguing, and I had profited tolerably well by the lessons I had learnt in this fine school.

She was separated from her husband Pompeati, had followed a new lover to Brussels, and there had caught the fancy of Prince Charles de Lorraine, who had obtained her the direction of all the theatres in the Austrian Low Countries.

Then, turning towards me, he says that I look like a foreigner, and when I say that I am an Italian he begins to speak to me of the court, of the city, of the theatres, and at last he offers to accompany me everywhere.

I have only appeared at two theatres, and each time I have been compelled to submit to the scandalous, degrading examination, because everywhere I am thought to have too much the appearance of a girl, and I am admitted only after the shameful test has brought conviction.

All I ask of you is that you give me your word of honour not to go to the theatres or public places of amusement on foot.

In the public walks, the churches, the theatres, the Spanish women are always speaking the language of the eyes.

In all the great houses I went to, and at the theatres, as soon as I was seen, everybody gave me money, asking me to lay it out as I liked and to send them the tickets, as, so far, the lottery was strange to most people.

The theatres, the streets, and even the Court entertainments, are open to everyone.

The managers of the theatres where they play his pieces will not like that.

I visited the theatres of Covent Garden and Drury Lane, but I could not extract much enjoyment out of the perfomances as I did not know a word of English.

My presence near the West End theatres had made me think of him, but it was his former friendship with Sherlock Holmes and his quick thinking under stress that made me believe I could trust trim and that now, when I badly needed a fresh point of view and a level head, he was the one soul to whom I should turn.

I pulled the small volume on London theatres from the left-hand pocket and placed it in his eager grasp.

Tuileries, when the theatres were closed in consequence of some religious festival.

The first Monday in October, when the theatres are opened and masks may be worn, I went to St.