anticks

I do anticipate the vices of age; the world to me is but a dream or mock-show, and we all therein but pantaloons and anticks, to my severer contemplations.

Religio Medici 2007

The second performance of the Show Must Go On went on this afternoon on Machmit Island, where the audience was made to feel very welcome and were once again amused by the anticks of its sundry players - do ye have a name for yourselves yet?

The Show Must Go On and On Young Geoffrion 2007

The second performance of the Show Must Go On went on this afternoon on Machmit Island, where the audience was made to feel very welcome and were once again amused by the anticks of its sundry players - do ye have a name for yourselves yet?

Archive 2007-06-01 Young Geoffrion 2007

Agrippa had a very favourite dog, which had been tutored to perform many anticks at the command of his master; upon which account it was affirmed that the animal was no other than a familiar spirit, which had assumed the canine resemblance in order to attend upon and obey his pleasure.

Note: Cornelius Agrippa 2002

Base-minded men all three of you, if by my misery yee bee not warned; for unto none of you, like me, sought those burs to cleave; those puppits, I meane, that speake from our mouths, those anticks garnisht in our colours.

Shakespeare's Lost Years in London, 1586-1592 Arthur Acheson 1897

I had heard of their cuttin 'up anticks at Washington, -- I had come prepared for it; but I didn't know as they was bold enough to come right out, and have rooms devoted to that purpose.

Sweet Cicely — or Josiah Allen as a Politician Marietta Holley 1881

Like all players, who are all "anticks garnisht in our colours," Shake-scene, AS PLAYER, is "beautified with our feathers."

Shakespeare, Bacon, and the Great Unknown Andrew Lang 1878

The "feathers," the words of the plays, were bought, not stolen, by the actors, "anticks garnished in our colours."

Shakespeare, Bacon, and the Great Unknown Andrew Lang 1878

Women fall in love with the actors, not with the authors; but with "those puppets," as Greene says, "that speake from our mouths, these anticks, garnished in our colours."

Shakespeare, Bacon, and the Great Unknown Andrew Lang 1878

Howbeit, as a man who hath his way to make in the world, I kept mine eyes well upon the anticks of the Great, while my Lord joined the group of maskers and their follies.

Condensed Novels: New Burlesques Bret Harte 1869