improvisator
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of improvisator
Example Sentences
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The improvisator was given a theme of which he knew nothing, and on which he discoursed, often brilliantly.
From The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 10 Prince Otto Von Bismarck, Count Helmuth Von Moltke, Ferdinand Lassalle by Francke, Kuno
In French, they call such a person by a very long name—the improvisator.
From Welsh Fairy Tales by Griffis, William Elliot
In his eye the lambent fire, Of his thought the glint, showed kinship With the free improvisator In the land of warmth and vineyards.
From Poems and Songs by Palmer, Arthur Hubbell
Of other sermons,—and good sermons,—printed and published, many have had an influence almost as restricted and as evanescent as the utterances of the pulpit improvisator.
From A History of American Christianity by Bacon, Leonard Woolsey
Beronicius, the Greek and Latin improvisator, who knew by heart Horace, Virgil, Cicero, Juvenal, both the Plinys, Homer, and Aristophănês.
From Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook, Vol. 3 by Brewer, Ebenezer Cobham
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