pantomime

• "[1457] The Kavirondo are naked, but are, "for negroes, a moral race, disliking real indecency and only giving way to lewd actions in their ceremonial dances, where indeed the intention is not immodest, as the pantomime is a kind of ritual. —  Folkways A Study of the Sociological Importance of Usages, Manners, Customs, Mores, and Morals
• On my word, what you call the pantomime of beggars is only the whole huge bustle of the earth He._--But let us bethink ourselves what o'clock it is, for I must go to the opera I._--What is going on He._--Dauvergne's Trocqueurs_. —  Diderot and the Encyclopædists Volume II.
• At Notre Dame de Paris there were at one time gargoyles used for extinguishing torches, and the smoke added not a little to their ugliness You may associate them with Master Pierre du Coignet which perform the office of extinguishers.--Rabelais, Gargantua and Pantagruel (1533-45 Pierrot= [_Pe´-er-ro_], a character in French pantomime, representing a man in stature and a child in mind. —  Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook, Vol. 3
• I will spare you the details of the pantomime, which is very graphic, and will merely mention that the bouncing infant squalls like a newborn babe. —  The Belief in Immortality and the Worship of the Dead, Volume I (of 3) The Belief Among the Aborigines of Australia, the Torres Straits Islands, New Guinea and Melanesia
• Pollie quite understood this little pantomime, and nodded her curly head a great many times to her opposite neighbour in proof of her so doing Come to tea, my child," said the mother, who had cut some slices of bread for the frugal repast, but which she had no appetite to eat Wait a bit, mammie dear, I must do some shopping first," exclaimed Pollie; "I shall not be long." —  Little Pollie Or a Bunch of Violets

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