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"Skit" Quotes from Famous Books

... have been told by one to whom du Maurier related the incident, that the hero of the aesthetic movement himself, Oscar Wilde, offered to sit to du Maurier for the chief character in his skit. Wilde was very young, but already master of that art of self-advertisement which he received from Byron and Disraeli, perfected, and, I think, handed on to Mr. Bernard Shaw. But such anxiety for every ...

— George Du Maurier, the Satirist of the Victorians • T. Martin Wood

... for many years on his shelves, he was content to sell it back to the novelist's brother, Henry Austen, for the exact sum which he had paid for it at the beginning, not knowing that the writer was already the author of four popular novels. This story—which is, of course, a skit on the "terror" novel of Mrs. Radcliffe's school—was not published till after its author's death, when, in 1818, it was bound up with ...

— The World's Greatest Books, Vol. I • Various

... as to obviate the need of entering a village, on that day at least, to purchase provisions; Eustacie's money and jewels again formed the nucleus of the bundle of clothes and spare swaddling-banks of her babe; her peasant dress was carefully arranged—a stout striped cloth skit and black bodice, the latter covered by a scarlet Chollet kerchief. The winged white cap entirely hid her hair; a gray cloak with a hood could either fold round her and her child or be strapped on her shoulders. Her sabots were ...

— The Chaplet of Pearls • Charlotte M. Yonge

... she took umbrage, saying: "It's true we worked together on the same paper for five years, but he was always a perfect gentleman. I never called him 'Gene.'" This was reported by the press, and gave me the refrain for a skit entitled "Katharine ...

— The Holy Cross and Other Tales • Eugene Field

Words linked to "Skit" : acting, performing, playacting, playing