What is "juggler"

Usage examples of "juggler".

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

Fernack and Varetti and even Cokey Walsh and Allen Uttershaw who played with quotations like a tired juggler toying with a cigar.

But my lord coxcomb laughed at that and walked on his way, whereupon the juggler took up a stone and threw it after him, as after a dog, before resuming his tricks in a most furious rage.

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.

But there had long existed a class of professional actors, descended partly from the mystery and the miracle-playing artisans of the Middle Ages, partly from the strolling players, equilibrists, jugglers, and jesters.

Black jugglers from Zoos, sham snake-charmers from the desert, and story-tellers both grave and facetious, all twanging their hideous ginbri, had been seated on the ground in half-circles of soldiers and their women.

He had come to London with a troupe of jugglers to play the illustrious part of clown, or pagliazzo, but having quarrelled with the company he had lost his place and had got into debt to the extent of ten pounds sterling, and for this debt he had been imprisoned.

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.

Habergeon: A chain-mail shirt Haut-gousts: Tasty things Headborough: A constable Hiccius Doctius: A nonsense word used by jugglers, conjurers etc.

All around them tumblers tumbled, musicians tootled and squeaked, and troupes of players, jugglers, wrestlers, mountebanks, pickpockets, cutpurses, prostitutes, quacksalvers, thimbleriggers, blagueurs, and the like went energetically and often noisily about their work.

Henry, laughing at the antics of a trio of jugglers, shared a cup of wine with a pretty young woman who looked a few years younger than Sanglant.

Sanglant got a good look at the king for the first time, his view blocked only by the antics of the jugglers.

Roscani was on the Autostrada, driving north toward Fiano Romano and the hospital there, a juggler with too many balls in the air, a jigsaw man confounded by the sheer number of pieces.

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.

Jugglers and buskers performed for the sightseers, and a number of tarot-card readers and palmists sat at little tables talking seriously to clients.