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There is small effort to recall the most dazzling talker of modern times, and far too much to stress Wilde's scarred and suffering side�in whom the play-actor yet persisted.

From Time Magazine Archive

"Ef you think I'm agoin' to put on play-actor clothes an' go round lookin' indecent, Phœbe Wise, why, you're mistaken—'cause I ain't—so there!"

From The Panchronicon by MacKaye, Harold Steele

He therefore hurried Bensley to an unfrequented coffee-house, where he asked him very seriously, "Hoo could ye disgrace the corps by turning a play-actor?"

From The Book of Anecdotes and Budget of Fun; containing a collection of over one thousand of the most laughable sayings and jokes of celebrated wits and humorists. by Various

"You 've been a play-actor, I take it?" asked he, dryly.

From A Day's Ride A Life's Romance by Lever, Charles James

He was becoming more and more declamatory, more and more of the emphatic and pompous play-actor.

From The Secret of Sarek by Leblanc, Maurice