equilibrist

• “When the equilibrist Madame Phom returned to Fan Nan Nan, she did not find Dickie Goldwire at home.”

  Villa Incognito

• “Another, an equilibrist, showed her how, when he was obliged to stay in bed with a broken leg and had nobody to wait on him, he used to wait on himself by going round the room on his hands ... like that.”

  The Bill-Toppers

• “Nor do I see my way clear in providing for the steeple-climber, the equilibrist, the railroad president, or the tea-taster.”

  Reveries of a Schoolmaster

• “Naturally a good equilibrist, the girl took easily to the motor-cycle, and even when Joe went at top speed on some smooth road she liked it.”

  Joe Strong, the Boy Fish or Marvelous Doings in a Big Tank

• “For the unusual cold and the night work together had betrayed him into potations even beyond his wont, the slippery pavements had proven very baffling to his dignified tread -- and the snowy signet upon the back of his topcoat spoke to a delighted office all too plainly that at last the alcoholic equilibrist par excellence had fallen.”

  White Ashes

• “Above, on one side, is an equilibrist swinging on a slack rope; and on the other, a man flying from the tower to the ground, by means of a groove fastened to his breast, slipping over a line strained from one place to the other.”

  The Works of William Hogarth: In a Series of Engravings With Descriptions, and a Comment on Their Moral Tendency

• “The steward brought me my coffee, and, wedged by boxes and pillows, like an equilibrist, I sat up and drank it.”

  Chapter 30

• “At that time I was a contortionist and they called me the Snake-Man; then I became an equilibrist and adopted the name of”

  The Quest

• “Bob with listless enthusiasm, teetering the while upon his cane like a Japanese equilibrist.”

  The Auction Block

• “He was laboring over a gigantic treadmill, balancing like an equilibrist upon a revolving sphere.”

  Rainbow's End

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