mountebank

• Mr. Perkins made a shrewd and droll remark: 'If he had got his four thousand a year as a mountebank, he might have learnt to talk at the same time that he was getting his fortune Some other gentlemen came in. —  Life of Johnson
• Otherwise let him be considered a sort of mountebank, a show-man, too clever by half. —  Lawrence - Kangaroo
• He knew himself innocent, but the character of a mountebank was sufficient to make the thing believed at first, and therefore he could not be blamed for his apprehensions, especially considering he took it as a just return for that robbery which he had committed in town, and for which he made no satisfaction when it was so fully in his power. —  Lives Of The Most Remarkable Criminals Who have been Condemned and Executed for Murder, the Highway, Housebreaking, Street Robberies, Coining or other offences
• You have had a strange evening for a mountebank--an evening filled with such events as to strain almost any amount of discretion GWYMPLANE I shall not talk DUCHESS Not of ourselves, of course. —  Clair de Lune A Play in Two Acts and Six Scenes
• I had some feeling about it myself a few minutes ago PHEDRO steps at once to the door where the mountebank is concealed, but the DUCHESS with a haughty look actually forestalls him, opening the door herself. —  Clair de Lune A Play in Two Acts and Six Scenes

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