What is "fairground"

Usage examples of "fairground".

At nightfall, when the first travelers would arrive, the place was uncrowded and peaceful, but by dawn it had been transformed into a fairground, with a mass of hammocks hanging at different levels and Aruac Indians from the mountains sleeping on their haunches, with the raging of the tethered goats, and the uproar of the fighting cocks in their pharaonic crates, and the panting silence of the mountain dogs, who had been taught not to bark because of the dangers of war.

The fairgrounds was the creepiest place in the world this time of year, when all the old buildings stood dark and empty and the wind howled around them.

And then they began to move, slowly at first, choreographing their clockwork movements to music from a grindingly slow fairground organ.

Goblin Dreams Most county fairs have horse races in addition to livestock shows, carnivals and kootch dancers, so most fairgrounds have locker rooms and showers under their grandstands, for the convenience of jockeys and sulky drivers.

Long before the preachers had drawn straws to determine who would lead off, the Lexington fairground was much more crowded than the Lynchburg circus lot had been.

To see the difference between these two approaches, take, for example, a person at a rifle stand in a fairground, endeavouring to shoot at a moving line of metal ducks at the back of the stand.

Singapore and lived a life almost as cinematic as that of his famous creationhe was a pearl fisher, gold prospector, rubber planter, tin miner, fairground hand and even a policeman before success as a writer turned him into one of the top-selling authors of his times.

By the time I closed the concession and headed for the meadow at the back of the county fairgrounds, where the carnies had established their mobile community, it was a few minutes after one o'clock.

For the past several hours he and Jeff, along with a crew of men that Brandi had called up from somewhere, had been secretly searching the Fairgrounds and particularly the towers for evidence of sabotagespecifically, for ceramic devices of the kind that Jeff himself had once been induced to put in place around the Empire State Building.

The fair was at its end, the serious matters like the judging of animals and fancy-work had been completed, and most of the old folks had gone home, leaving young men and their girls, and the village cutups on the fairground.

Hurried across the fairground to the public phone box and dialled Ferguson's number.

A refreshing breeze made me feel rested and clean, and it blew the doubts into deeper reaches of my mind, much the same way it gathered up litter and old leaves, packing them into corners formed by the fairground buildings and shrubbery, not disposing of the trash altogether but at least keeping it out from underfoot.

He'd been trying to choose between the big dipper, waltzer and dodgems: all parts of the vulgar fairground side of heaven's attractions and only a tiny proportion of what it had to offer.

I was starving and the fairgrounds weren't going anywhere, so I picked up carne asada burritos for me and whoever was on duty when I got there.

The fairgrounds were on the edge of the county seat, a burg of about seven or eight thousand souls, so I walked into town and had breakfast in a coffee shop, then went next door to a men's store and bought two pair of jeans and a couple of shirts.