rope-dancers

I had an idea that some rope-dancers had come in and that the hogs would perform tricks, just as they do for the crowd on the streets, but

Satyricon 2007

Trimalchio was the only one who was much impressed by these tricks, remarking that it was a thankless calling and adding that in all the world there were just two things which could give him acute pleasure, rope-dancers and horn blowers; all other entertainments were nothing but nonsense.

Satyricon 2007

See, with attention all the shops, drolls, tumblers, rope-dancers, and hoc genus omne: but inform yourself more particularly of the several parts of trade there.

Letters to his son on The Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman 2005

We have had transient visits of a puppet-shew, strolling musicians, and rope-dancers; but they did not like their quarters, and decamped without beat of drum.

Travels through France and Italy 2004

With hands wrapped around the bars on the window, he drew himself up into the enclosure; like the work of the rope-dancers, it looked smooth and easy, but it was hard work.

Take A Thief Lackey, Mercedes 2001

Raf had warned him that he might be noticed-by the rope-dancers themselves, if no one else-if he went to the same spot a third time.

Take A Thief Lackey, Mercedes 2001

She takes as much diversion as possible; one day she hunts, another day she goes out in a carriage, on a third she will go to a fair; at other times she frequents the rope-dancers, the plays, and the operas, and she goes everywhere 'en echarpe', and without stays.

The Entire Memoirs of Louis XIV and the Regency d'Orleans, Charlotte -Elisabeth, duchesse 2001

It treats of the various classes that get their living by amusing others, not merely of theatrical and musical artists, but of circus-riders, ventriloquists, jugglers, rope-dancers, puppet-showmen, &c.

The International Monthly Magazine - Volume V - No II Various

Sometimes the ceiling was contrived to open and let down a second course of meats, with showers of flowers and perfumed waters, while rope-dancers performed their evolutions over the heads of the company.

Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life

Were this to be the case, and were mere pastime the object of theatres, Astley's horse-riders, the tumblers and rope-dancers of Sadlers-Wells, nay, the

The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor Volume I, Number 1