What is "duse"

Usage examples of "duse".

Zetman, the inner moon, already had ducked below the horizon, while Duse rode, round, pale and placid, overhead.

But then "Castles" changed to Eleanora Duse when Chess saw a portrait of the young actress in Aarpers Bafaar.

Patti and Melba, of the operatic stage, Bernhardt and Rejane and Duse of the theater.

Eleanora Duse wore hot-house white camellias where Bernhardt wore jewels.

Somehow, one of the airy feathers separated from it when she was led by the Savoy's manager past the table where Duse was already seated.

I was given the Duse too, by the man in fact who gave her to Europe, over twenty years ago, in Il Fuoco.

Had I known the Duse was there, her poet chap might have found dangerous competition, ha-ha.

Perhaps, when she had got a few other of the good things she might try to add it to them--or might find herself able to get comfortably along without it, as had George Eliot and Aspasia, George Sand and Duse and Bernhardt and so many of the world's company of self-elected women members of the triumphant class.

Gunnar Andersson, Lieutenant Duse, and their companion during the winter, a Norwegian sailor named Grunden.

Andersson, Duse and Grunden were then landed in the vicinity, to bring news to the winter quarters as soon as the ice permitted them to arrive there.

One was the actress Eleonora Duse, the other a sailboat at sea in a high wind.

Elanora Duse was playing Hamlet in London in 1905, and Royalty could not get a ticket.

He proved his point by giving me a handful of them: Kenneth Catherine Duse Faneuil Savoyard Booth Johnson Ivanovich de la Valentine, to mention just a few.