"Diva" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... young merchant-adventurer from Leghorn, ravished as he was by the spell of her cool lips, she became at once "La divina Maria," or shorter, "La Diva"; and in a very light space of time, when his acquaintance with her and hers with his tongue had ripened, she had quite a nosegay of names: Madonna Collebianca (my Lady Whitethroat), Donna Fiordispina, La Bella Rosseggiante, were three among three dozen flowers ...
— Little Novels of Italy • Maurice Henry Hewlett
... attraction. In one minute and forty-five seconds they had the girls in training for the Prince's arrival. They had hummed over the melody of what they declared was the Prince's favourite opera selection; a girl at a piano had picked up the tune, while the others practised harder than diva ...
— Westward with the Prince of Wales • W. Douglas Newton
... Potsdam's Kaiser was the Empress Alexandra. And having done so she, with her curious nature, suddenly turned from gay to grave. She became strange in her conduct and discarded her wonderful Paris gowns—in which, by the way, she was eclipsed by "Liane," the dark-haired diva of the Paris cafes chantants, in whom Nicholas II. took such a very ...
— The Minister of Evil - The Secret History of Rasputin's Betrayal of Russia • William Le Queux
... Vive la Diva!' yelled the tenor, and he threw up his pot hat almost to the border lights, quite ...
— Fair Margaret - A Portrait • Francis Marion Crawford |
