saltimbanque

• 'Pardon my blundering,' he said; 'I have never engaged a saltimbanque before.' —  Vittoria — Volume 5
• He never missed, he never stumbled; for he was tumbler and wire-walker and saltimbanque in one. —  "Wee Tim'rous Beasties" Studies of Animal life and Character
• This montebank, this saltimbanque, this leaper. —  U.S. Copyright Renewals 1950 - 1977
• It was fortunate for the old Arab that the effort thus made by the amateur _saltimbanque_ had shaken the dirk from his grasp, else, in another instant, the camel would have ceased to "carry double." —  The Boy Slaves
• Fabrice is attacked by, and after a rough-and-tumble struggle kills, his saltimbanque rival in the affections of a low-class actress, and then has a series of escapes from the Austrian police on the banks of the Po, has a little more of the exciting about it. —  A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century

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