"Programme" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... on the crowded dance hall, from one of the curtained boxes adjacent to the stage, on which a vaudeville programme was being performed, that two men sat screened from the chance glance of the ...
— The Triumph of John Kars - A Story of the Yukon • Ridgwell Cullum
... her people, had got a severe fright; but, seeing that no one seemed to be hurt, she controlled her feelings, under the impression, no doubt, that the explosion was part of the programme. ...
— The Fugitives - The Tyrant Queen of Madagascar • R.M. Ballantyne
... an Evans Gambit. This game was the only one played without clocks; both players seemed at ease, and glad to be free from the formality and encumbrance of time regulators and it is a happy omen that it proved one of the most interesting in the programme: ...
— Chess History and Reminiscences • H. E. Bird
... is too bad," he argued earnestly, "however," he continued with his peculiar, winning smile, "I am thankful for any." He wrote his name very badly on my programme, and mine on his, then with a most graceful bow made way ...
— The Doctor's Daughter • "Vera"
... that persons brought up in such a creed should experience a feeling of relief on learning that there was no God, no sin, no punishment? Add to this the terrors of the exaggerated Sabbatarianism of the period. What was the Sunday programme? Two lengthy sessions of Family Prayers; two attendances—each lasting at least an hour and a quarter—on services in church; one, sometimes two, hours of Sunday School; no books but those of a religious character; ...
— Science and Morals and Other Essays • Bertram Coghill Alan Windle
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