pierrots

First there was to be a kind of concert party such as pierrots give on the beaches.

Five Go Down To The Sea Blyton, Enid, 1898?-1968 1953

At Dalston's Holy Trinity church on Sunday, harlequins, jesters and pierrots will assemble for an act of worship.

In praise of … the clowns' church service | Editorial 2011

In this show, I will feature a new series of oil paintings of playful, iconic nudes and introduce some new characters (in addition to my cats, pierrots and monkeys): a lion, a tortoise, and large flying insects.

Boing Boing 2008

They could only respond by painting pierrots and a ward full of jolly moustached Tommies recovering from the fighting under patterned bedspreads.

April « 2008 « Squares of Wheat 2008

They could only respond by painting pierrots and a ward full of jolly moustached Tommies recovering from the fighting under patterned bedspreads.

The painting of not-so modern life « Squares of Wheat 2008

On the little trim newly-made roads I met people in flannels coming back from tennis and the beach, and a coastguard from the wireless station, and donkeys and pierrots padding homewards.

The Thirty-Nine Steps 2005

She who had been a broad – backed dray – horse, upon whose hind – quarters pierrots might waltz, became a colt in a field.

The Voyage Out 2004

Seaside resorts are the chosen pitches, not only of pierrots appealing to the amorous emotions, but also of preachers who often seem to specialize in a correspondingly sombre and sulphurous style of preaching.

The Complete Father Brown 2003

Seaside resorts are the chosen pitches, not only of pierrots appealing to the amorous emotions, but also of preachers who often seem to specialize in a correspondingly sombre and sulphurous style of preaching.

The Complete Father Brown 2003

Novelty items on every surface: ashtrays in the shape of pianos, china pierrots peeping out from behind a shelf of books.

The Satanic Verses Rushdie, Salman 1967