Or when on a friend's asking, "What is the meaning of faust?"
"George Eliot"
Mathilde Blind
The voice sang the Jewel Song from "faust," and it seemed to me that its owner knew something about singing.
"Melomaniacs"
James Huneker
He spoke of Mendelssohn as if the composer of Elijah had earned undying shame, of Gounod as if he ought to have been hanged for creating his faust.
"The Way of Ambition"
Robert Hichens