sword-swallower

As if all this weren't enough, the irrepressible Rosling is also an accomplished sword-swallower -- a skill he demonstrated at TED2007.

TEDTalks: Hans Rosling: The Good News of the Decade? TEDTalks 2010

Aside from the impressive, horrifying and ultimately failed sword-swallower, Steven Retchless defined what America's Got Talent is all about on Wednesday's episode: being a one-person freak show.

VIDEO: Silver Man Pole-Dances, Gender-Bends on America's Got Talent 2011

A circus is an organized performance: there are the acrobats, the lion tamer, and the sword-swallower, all working together on the same team.

Nathaniel Loewentheil: The Long Arc of the UN: Overlooked Beaches, International Conflict and a Dash of Hope at the Cancun Climate Talks Nathaniel Loewentheil 2010

"Leopard Man" is a plotboiler: an old story written for a quick $25: the Leopard Man, a circus performer, tells a reporter of "King" Wallace, a lion-tamer who is hated by another man, a juggler and sword-swallower named De Ville, toward whose wife Wallace had the temerity to look upon, apparently lustfully.

“I, in the course of making my living by turning journalism into literature. . .” 2008

A circus is an organized performance: there are the acrobats, the lion tamer, and the sword-swallower, all working together on the same team.

Nathaniel Loewentheil: The Long Arc of the UN: Overlooked Beaches, International Conflict and a Dash of Hope at the Cancun Climate Talks Nathaniel Loewentheil 2010

My favorite this year (probably because I read and occasionally write fantasy novels, and thus have a possibly unhealthy interest in swords) was the award in medicine, given to radiologist Brian Witcombe of Gloucester and professional sword-swallower Dan Meyer of Tennessee for their medical report “Sword Swallowing and Its Side Effects.”

The 2007 Ig Nobel Prizes ewillett 2007

Apuleius is a sword-swallower on the PontNeuf, the nephew of Rameau and

Les Miserables 2008

The sword-swallower stabbed his unfaithful wife to death

will i find it again? melcircus 2005

"You think I'm a sword-swallower or something?" he asked.

Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine 2003

The family and friends of renowned sword-swallower José Guerrero were gathered at Mary of Magdala Hospital to pray for his recovery; during a performance at a tourist hotel in Acapulco, Guerrero had tripped and fallen onstage, lancing his liver.

The Fourth Hand Irving, John, 1942- 2001