Woffington
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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Shaking from her pretty shoulders the garish costumes of two previous cinema roles�as Nell Gwyn and Peg Woffington �Britain's beloved Anna Neagle last week traced with pomp and piety Queen Victoria's long reign.
From Time Magazine Archive
Won't you remember that, in dealing with Peg Woffington?
From Superwomen by Terhune, Albert Payson
We can't expect for one small dime, To see a Woffington or Kemble!
From Writings in the United Amateur, 1915-1922 by Lovecraft, H. P. (Howard Phillips)
The little vintner, tickled that the great Mistress Woffington should have deigned to notice an unknown nonentity, was duly brought up and presented.
From Superwomen by Terhune, Albert Payson
“I might do like Peg Woffington and put my hair up in curl papers and appear at my very worst.”
From Molly Brown's College Friends by Speed, Nell
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