What is "acrobat"

Usage examples of "acrobat".

The horses, the bull Brutus, even the human acrobats and aerialists and jugglers.

And if the women on the promenade were homely and ill-dressed, even the bonnes in unpicturesque costumes, and all the men were slouchy and stolid, how could any one tell what an effect of gayety and enjoyment there might be when there were thousands of such people, and the sea was full of bathers, and the flags were flying, and the bands were tooting, and all the theatres were opened, and acrobats and spangled women and painted red-men offered those attractions which, like government, are for the good of the greatest number?

The acrobat was sorely bedeviled by the skeleton rider, for that traitor from the past was swatting at Erejzan, trying to slay him with a bloodstained sword.

That gentleman was a sort of Barnum, the director of a troupe of mountebanks, jugglers, clowns, acrobats, equilibrists, and gymnasts, who, according to the placard, was giving his last performances before leaving the Empire of the Sun for the States of the Union.

Stilt walkers and jugglers, acrobats and dancers, gigants and pithkies, costumes and floats -- some of which even celebrate the revolution: hardboard mock-ups of armored cars with broom handles poking out the windows and people in real or fake militia uniforms trotting alongside.

Leonard introduced them to a young fellow named Weathers who was performing at the Tivoli as an acrobat and knockabout artiste.

Just as the ringmaster was exclaiming how great a warrior All-seeing Rao would be when he grew up, a savage war-cry would come from under the stands, and a man charge out: one of the acrobats who had some war training, costumed in full gear, Enchian, Lakan or Arkan, whomever was hated most where we were playing.

The duke came in early Lithion to make his farewells, and brought a band of minstrels and acrobats with him to perform.

Scarcely wasting a glance upon the great glass-panelled roof, the shops, the paste-jewelled carts and bedizened vendors, the tame songbirds and costumed monkeys, or even the jugglers and acrobats performing about the fountain in the vast atrium, she hurried after her cousin, who in turn chased Bayelle vo Clari vaux.

So, after some days, when Magpie Maggie Hag had cut and sewn acrobat outfits for the three and they were decently covered, they were allowed out of the wagon to mingle with their new colleagues, and Quashee fed them when he fed Hannibal, and they returned to the museum only to sleep.

Lord of Patrice had no interest in acrobats, and, knowing that, I was already predisposed to dislike him.

Probably those who were privileged to witness his landing decided that he was either an acrobat casually practising a back flip or a slightly stout and unsober god arriving in haste from some well-tailored Olympus.

At one street corner, an ebony-skinned acrobat performed a graceful backbend, muscles rippling.

Here were scenes of feasting and entertainmentslender girl dancers and acrobats, musicians, tables piled high with foodscenes familiar in their subject matter from many such in Egyptian palaces and Cushite tombs.

She turned to address the rest of the band, the acrobat, the gloveman and the Cherub, now clustered deferentially behind her.