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svengali
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Svengali is a fictional character in George du Maurier 's 1895 novel Trilby . Svengali is a Jewish man who seduces, dominates and exploits Trilby, a young English girl, and makes her a famous singer.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"one who exerts controlling or mesmeric influence on another," 1914, from hypnotist character of that name in the novel "Trilby" (1894) by George Du Maurier.
Usage examples of svengali.
He went by the name of Svengali, and spoke fluent French with a German accent and humorous German twists and idioms, and his voice was very thin and mean and harsh, and often broke into a disagreeable falsetto.
Taffy jumped out of his bath, such a towering figure of righteous Herculean wrath that Svengali was appalled, and fled.
And you shall see nothing, hear nothing, think of nothing but Svengali, Svengali, Svengali!
He forgets that there is a fellow called Svengali for the world to talk about!
There is a little ugly gray building there, and inside are eight slanting slabs of brass, all of a row, like beds in a school dormitory, and one fine day you shall lie asleep on one of those slabs--you, Drilpy, who would not listen to Svengali, and therefore lost him!
Madame Svengali intends to make her first appearance in Paris that very evening, at nine punctually, in the Cirque des Bashibazoucks, Rue St.
But Svengali merely turned round and bowed--there were to be no encores that night.
La Svengali chose to make her debut before the most critical audience in the world!
La Svengali appeared, the world had only known apples--Catalanis, Jenny Linds, Crisis, Albonis, Pattis!
Little Billee remembered there was such a person as Svengali in the world, and recalled his little flexible flageolet!
La Svengali, who accepts no encores, has to bow for nearly five minutes, standing amid a sea of flowers.
She was to have sung sooner, but it seems some hitch has occurred--a quarrel between Monsieur Svengali and his first violin, who is a very important person.
Stereoscopic Company in Regent Street, gazing at presentments of Madame Svengali in all sizes and costumes.
I have been able to discover, the row between Svengali and his first violin had occurred at a rehearsal in Drury Lane Theatre.
The only living soul that Svengali could trust was the old Jewess who lived with them--his relative--but even she had come to love the pupil as much as the master.