charades

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  • As a lad at Cassel he was fond of playing charades, and is reported to have had a knack of quickly sketching the scenario and dramatis personae of a play which he and his young companions would then and there proceed to act. —  William of Germany
  • But before Madame married and moved away she taught the girls charades, and then little plays, and a theatrical performance was given in the barn. —  Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great, Vol. 2 of 14
  • She was actually quite good at charades, as Crone Latia had noted. —  Swell Foop
  • Impromptu charades were almost a nightly pastime of ours, from the children's earliest days—they played in them with me when they were only five or six years old. —  The Project Gutenberg eBook of Chapters From My Autobiography, by Mark Twain.
  • Because he spoke no English and thought himself too bad-ass for charades, there was no hope in explaining "bumpy bus!" to him. —  TravelPod.com Recent Updates
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