What is "canvasman"

Usage examples of "canvasman".

The odor of the food, the sweet scents from the green grass underneath their feet, all so familiar to the showman, gave Phil and Teddy appetites that even a canvasman might have envied.

He entered the tent, nodded at the Boss Canvasman and Boss Animal Man seated in the center of the tent on overturned buckets, then he stopped with his back facing Lolita.

Rat Man shook his head, then noticed the Governor and Boss Canvasman walking in his direction.

While they were so occupied, the Boss Canvasman moved over to the four silent bodyguards.

Number two grabbed the Boss Canvasman under the armpits, threw him up and caught him by the waist and held him up to guard number three.

The first guard shouted an order and the fourth guard lifted the Boss Canvasman by his ankles, held him forward, then dropped him.

Boss Canvasman slapped Chaine on the back again, sending the man sprawling in the dust.

Boss Canvasman walked to the top entrance and watched Fish Face leading Tyli to the kid show.

She would watch the beautiful flyer and the ugly canvasman talk while she did a slow burn.

The last Tyli saw of the Boss Canvasman, he was leaping through the air to tackle the roughneck who had disobeyed his orders.

The Boss Canvasman stood in the doorway until a voice spoke up with a thick Pendiian accent.

Duckfoot Tarzak, the Boss Canvasman, was standing in the dark examining the main tent and keeping an eye on the wind.

Rodney Palmer said the boss canvasman might give me a chance to earn one.

He had learned that it was safe to kick a mere canvasman when you felt like doing so, but that a real artist, such as a tumbler or a trapeze man, was to be respected, and that the person of the ring-master was most sacred.

Even a workhand or canvasman could be fired without notice for being drunk in public.