Pantomime performer

Usage examples of mummer.

In Philadelphia the Mummers were marching, their feathers and furbelows blowing in the wind, symbols of tradition.

Once a mummer had brought his camera obscura to the Sheep Fair and amazed spectators by projecting an image of the world upside down onto the curtain behind him.

Although no one escapes a visit to the doctor or the dentist, or a punishment session with some such beefy physio as Pam from the Mummers, not everyone has seen the Great British Legal System at work.

If neither priest nor septon was on hand, one of the whores would run to the Ship and fetch back a mummer.

Peter Hofmeister and divers others of the magnates of the canton, were particularly loud in their plaudits on this repetition of the games, for, by a process that will be easily understood, they, who had been revelling and taking their potations in the marquees and booths while the mummers were absent, were more than qualified to supply the deficiencies of the actors by the warmth and exuberance of their own warmed imaginations.

Though I must protest strongly against lions, litters, mistresses and mummers.

Men and women, clothed like mummers, danced under the November sky as if it had been May-day.

Bria turned her eyes once more to the costumed mummers performing before her.

The ghosts returned to the world of the dead, encouraged to leave by masked mummers whose job it was to scare away any of the stubborn spirits who tried to linger too long.

It was to do what the mummers in their skeleton masks did, scaring away the stubborn spirits, but Abuela was so much more effective at the task.

It was another half hour before the Christmas mummers and revelers had been sent on their way to serenade the rest of Paradise, and Elizabeth could collapse into the rocker before the hearth.

Up and down the streets they cavorted like third-rate mummers in search of an audience.

From every street and every corner drove carriages filled with clowns, harlequins, dominoes, mummers, pantomimists, Transteverins, knights, and peasants, screaming, fighting, gesticulating, throwing eggs filled with flour, confetti, nosegays, attacking, with their sarcasms and their missiles, friends and foes, companions and strangers, indiscriminately, and no one took offence, or did anything but laugh.

Having assumed the dress of women, they entered ogling and smiling, and so well imitated the mummers in playing on the mundal, dancing, and mimicry, that the roy's son was charmed with their performances.

But from a certain nameless awe with which the mad assumptions of the mummer had inspired the whole party, there were found none who put forth hand to seize him.