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At the dress-rehearsals I did not want to sleep.

From The Story of My Life Recollections and Reflections by Terry, Ellen

Why should people flock to pay for seats for what are practically dress-rehearsals of an unknown play?

From Jill the Reckless by Wodehouse, P. G. (Pelham Grenville)

At one of the final dress-rehearsals of "Robert le Diable," Meyerbeer felt much upset.

From An Englishman in Paris Notes and Recollections by Albert D.

But Thyrsis did not know the peculiar fact about dress-rehearsals, that everything always goes wrong; and so he suffered untellable agonies at the sight of the blundering and stupidity.

From Love's Pilgrimage by Sinclair, Upton

He wanted something real and human,—you gave him a bad dress-rehearsal, and dress-rehearsals always provoke criticism.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 77, March, 1864 by Various