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Usage examples of ringmaster.

Traditionally, to alert the clowns and acrobats and other hands that a fire has broken out the ringmaster would send a subtle signal to the bandleader, who then launched into the energetic John Philip Sousa march, "Stars and Stripes Forever.

Townsend, resplendent as a super bareback rider with rather too rotund calves, was standing in the centre with the ringmaster in charge of arrangements.

Marilyn Monroe fast and bright like lightning They broke Daddy and they broke Mama but shit like I mean it this time they ain't going to break me No even if it's greater with Simon than with any other man even if he knows more than any other man I've had No it can't be him and it can't even be Hagbard who seems to be the king of the circus the very Ringmaster and keeper of the final secret No it can't be any man and it most certainly by Jesus and by Christ it can't be going back to Mister Charlie's police force No it's dark like my own skin and dark like the destiny they've inflicted on me because of my skin but whatever it is I can only find it alone God the time that rat bit me while I was sleeping Daddy screaming until he.

The first sticky that Ryan had seen, a couple of years back, had been in a traveling carny, a weird and horrifying collection of freaks and savagely mutated beings that rode around the Deathlands ramrodded by a fat ringmaster called Gert Wolfram, something of a freak himself as he weighed well over one hundred and fifty kilos and had to be carried everywhere in a special construction chair born by six giants.

All the ringmasters seemed to agree that it was a sensible place to start, that only the ringmaster bringing the ring up would be able to tell if the line could hold it stable.

And if the satellite ringmasters refuse to cooperate unless you prove dominance?

He'd been prepared to approach the satellite node ringmasters with vague theories and untested strategies.

I'm going to visit every node in the web, to prepare the leaders for the news of Anhel iaa's death, to unite the ringmasters, and to rouse the citi zens to defend their borders against Mauritum.

Save for that momentary dissension at Ve nitum, all the ringmasters had been quite amenable to his proposals .

The ringmasters were much relieved to have the steady leeching from Rhomatum at an end, and his ability to reassure them that the worst was over and that a healthy Shatumin woman was in charge in Rhoma tum seemed to set all minds at ease.

My primary objective on this trip was to quietly alert the ringmasters and organize a unified attempt to repair the line and get the web stable again.

The message lines are func tioning, and all the ringmasters have sent their official acceptance of Rhomatum's authorityand their oaths of complete cooperation, pending the signing of diplomatic agreements.

The radical: a ran dom element to the Rings' actions that all ringmasters alter nately cursed and praised.

And if that were the case, if Deymorin was the stuff of which great ringmasters were made (Deymorin would not settle for being mediocre at anything), his own job became ever so much easier.

That once Persitum had been capped, the ringmasters must have sensed the nodes be yond, certainly so powerful a node as Rhomatum itself.