snake-charmer

• “I got talking to a snake-charmer wearing a thick woollen djellaba robe.”

  The Guardian: Back to the Middle East: the view from Morocco

• “I saw the snake-charmer, and no more of the circus did”

  CHAPTER I

• “None of your sibling's superlatives fit you; you are neither the prettiest nor the wiliest, neither the snake-charmer nor the double-crosser.”

  Fictionaut: forestry

• “In sooty blackness a line of candles flicker; the contours of characters are picked out in a line of light; a Weird Sister writhes like a snake-charmer; a cast of seven, in stiff long skirts, sway together, often as if welded, across the stage, sometimes apparently stalking an unseen beast, sometimes whirling.”

  The Guardian: One Night in November; Macbeth; Novecento

• “Thaïs" is a grade-B piece, with far too much snake-charmer music, and it was a little dispiriting to watch so much top talent deployed on such an inferior product.”

  The Wall Street Journal: In This Puccini Work, Only a Dream Dies

• “Obama Hussien Barak has beguiled America with fine words in the fashion of a snake-charmer.”

  On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...

• “At last certain of my messmates killed one of the captives and the snake-charmer would have no more to do with me.”

  The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night

• “Then he returned the snake-charmer his clothes and kit and gave him due benevolence; after which he went back to”

  The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night

• “‘I am fleeing from the snake-charmer, for he seeketh to trap me and, if thou wilt save me and hide me with thee, I will make fair thy reward and do thee all manner of kindness.’”

  The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night

• “In India I took lessons from a snake-charmer but soon gave up the practice as too dangerous.”

  The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night

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