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I cannot embrace stout prime donne very well, because I am so fat myself!'

From Time Magazine Archive

Soon afterwards the most money-making of prime donne was, without being aware of it at the time, seized for debt.

From The Mapleson Memoirs, vol II 1848-1888 by Mapleson, James H.

I cannot understand," he said, "how it is you get on so well with prime donne, and especially with Mdme.

From The Mapleson Memoirs, vol II 1848-1888 by Mapleson, James H.

Special trains were most unusual, and so were prime donne, and crowds used to gather on the station platforms wherever we stopped, waiting to catch a glimpse of us as we passed through.

From Memoirs of an American Prima Donna by Kellogg, Clara Louise

To-day prime donne besides Lucca justify the use of their own dark locks—notably Mme.

From Memoirs of an American Prima Donna by Kellogg, Clara Louise