"No; I wouldn't be willin' to see you a playactor," he said, "walkin' round in skin tights, with your face all painted up."
"Calvary Alley"
Alice Hegan Rice
One time he would be a playactor, then a sutler or a welsher, then nought would keep him from the bearpit and the cocking main, then he was for the ocean sea or to hoof it on the roads with the romany folk, kidnapping a squire's heir by favour of moonlight or fecking maids' linen or choking chicken behind a hedge.
"Ulysses"
James Joyce
"I didna ken ye," said Blue Peter, "in sic playactor kin' o' claes."
"The Marquis of Lossie"
George MacDonald