acrobat's

Stirring and sloshing, rinsing and wiping, pouring and garnishing, with a fry cook's retention and an acrobat's timing, he virtually dances through his shift, skating, as it were, on the chunky ice he scoops with furious delicacy into each glass.

La insistencia de Jürgen Fauth 2010

That image is cropped from this Bogdanove cover, which he based on this unused cover design by Shuster for the second version of Superman; sort of the missing link between the brainy villain from their self published pulp and the guy in an acrobat's costume we finally got Action #1.

Why do so many writers ignore the first one? 2007

A queer suit like an acrobat's leotard, made of some shiny material and covering even his feet, poked out of the holes of a shabby Arab robe that seemed like some castoff of the souks.

Asimov's Science Fiction 2004

Her movements became much sharper and quicker once the action began, and her approach became more like an acrobat's tumbling run.

Chainer's Torment Mcgough, Scott 2002

Bent over a used sword he was hammering into shape for a sergeant in the Twelfth Legion, the stocky craftsman did not notice the acrobat's eye stray to the spearheads, arrowheads, and the new short swords requisi'tioned by the garrisons of the city.

The Dark Queen Williams, Michael, 1952 Dec. 17- 1994

Hallie Ordway, in a very abbreviated acrobat's costume, bounced up and down excitedly, raring to go.

The Cruise of a Deathtime Babson, Marian 1983

But the latter's pennies rattled a louder jingle into the ancient acrobat's tin cup than it had into the priest's green netted contribution box.

In and out of Three Normady Inns Anna Bowman Dodd

We do not ask for a slavering flux of sentiment, or an acrobat's display in gesticulation.

My Contemporaries In Fiction David Christie Murray

Now she had whipped her coat back about her with a winsome acrobat's smile, as if she had just performed a towering feat.

The Machineries of Joy Bradbury, Ray, 1920- 1949

He is still in his twenties, a man above the average height, possessed of a figure as lithe as an acrobat's.

What Happened to Hayakawa 1929