Strauss opera based on a play by Oscar Wilde

Usage examples of salome.

She sounded soft and winsome over the comlink, a sure sign HQ was in second degree alarm -- Salome never courted underlings unless she needed something.

She had also pressed the support key which had informed her that Salome was the name attached by legend to the daughter of Herodias, wife of King Herod of Judea, who was mentioned in two of the gospels of the New Testament, the holy book of the Christian religion.

Bribe and wheedle though he might, Abu could not influence the bandleader to influence Salome to dance on additional evenings.

An' when mah show debuts, Salome, hon, ah hope people'U see me in a dif­ferent light.

Salome neither looked at nor spoke to anyone, but hugged herself, bashful, remote, self-contained, until the band sounded her opening number, at which point she would throw apart her arms and let the glow spread wherever it might, heating the freshly shaved cheeks of diplomats, ripening the green olives in their martinis.

The Kothian entered just then, and Salome cynically handed her sister over to be raped by him, while she went forth to give the soldiers at the gates orders to admit the Shemites.

Salome danced, Ellen Cherry managed, and then the plasterers came and sent both of them home.

Here, Salome walked around with a big red fish held high up over her head.

Then David played his lyre, Salome danced with her seven veils, and at the fall of each veil she blew one of the seven trumpets and showed one of the seven seals, until only the amicta sole remained.

But his unidentified sources assured him that if Salome ever performed it, which she probably wouldn't, all of the other dances she had done would seem prissy, uncolored, and commonplace in comparison.

From Terce to Sext, Antonia studied several interesting and obscure works on theology and philosophy: the apocryphal Wisdom Book of Queen Salome.

On his right sat Hermione, who, with Bob, were the only wrinklies invited and who spent most of the lunch happily reading out faxes from New York of her Salome reviews, which, despite Meredith's sniping, had been excellent.