| 单词 | mountebank |
| 例句 | Was it not a dangerous word, too closely connected to Hobbes and to dubious stories about sympathetic magic told by Digby—someone whom John Evelyn, another early member, could dismiss as an arrant mountebank? The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Yet Twain knew well enough that actors, like the busking mountebanks who perform bits of Shakespeare's history plays in Huckleberry Finn, can invent experience and conjure up alternative existences. Contested Will: Who Wrote Shakespeare? by James Shapiro | Book review 2010-04-03T23:07:00Z Though he was aware of the stratagems mountebanks used to hoodwink the gullible, Crookes was unable to retain a healthy scepticism and indeed became infatuated with Florence Cook, a teenage medium. All that is unseen 2014-08-14T04:00:00Z The mountebanks of fantasy economics continue to ply their deceptive trade with the latest attempt to “ease the burden” imposed by the spiraling cost of student loans. Editorials from around Pennsylvania 2014-06-18T04:00:00Z The Daily Beast reported last month that Mr. Lee, who is said to be worth around $50 million, was “surrounded by a panoply of Hollywood charlatans and mountebanks” and being “picked apart by vultures.” Is Stan Lee Being Held Prisoner by Real-Life Villains? 2018-04-13T04:00:00Z A barrel-shaped figure in a much-worn black suit, overcoat and fedora, his face half-covered by a grizzled beard, he would appear to be a posturing mediocrity, a mountebank with a smooth line in Irish gab. ‘Faith Healer’ Review: Michael Sheen Stirs the Embers in the Ashes 2020-09-20T04:00:00Z He cast him as a déclassé mountebank who bilked students at his Trump University. A National Descent Into Trump’s Pants 2016-03-04T05:00:00Z "There before me was a frightful gnome with red-rimmed eyes and no eyelashes, no hair, greenish teeth, bad breath, the manners of a mountebank and the reputation, nevertheless, for being a ladies' man." The Pike: Gabriele D'Annunzio – Poet, Seducer & Preacher of War by Lucy Hughes-Hallett – review 2013-02-04T07:00:01Z Jay was so enamored of Malini that he devoted an entire chapter of his book, “Learned Pigs & Fireproof Women,” to the man he described as the “last of the mountebanks.” A magical trove of Ricky Jay ephemera hits auction block 2021-10-23T04:00:00Z The resulting installations, at once intimate and subversive, polarized the critics: Some dismissed Mr. Burden as a mountebank, while others praised his explorations of masculinity, martyrdom and the Romantic ideal of suffering for one’s art. Chris Burden, a Conceptualist With Scars, Dies at 69 2015-05-11T04:00:00Z Then their star tightrope walker is injured, and these mountebanks demand from Ramona a further, aerodynamically unlikely sacrifice. Review: ‘Ramona,’ a Puppet Tale About Trains in Love 2015-07-30T04:00:00Z But, rather than headline in Las Vegas, he prefers to live in the mysterious world of ancient mountebanks and eccentric entertainers. The Top Twenty-Five Most-Read Archive Stories of 2019 2019-12-30T05:00:00Z If you write about music, at some point you will upset somebody, likely a fan of an artist you have whimsically dismissed as a talentless mountebank. The critic who hit the stage 2010-05-13T21:00:00Z The Republican, who is angling for the GOP nomination for president, staged a roundtable of scientific mountebanks on Wednesday to attack the vaccines. Column: Does Ron DeSantis even believe his dangerous B.S. about COVID vaccines? 2023-09-15T04:00:00Z In this world in which self-interested mountebanks command followers on social media and the airwaves by the millions, it doesn’t take much for a misinformation and disinformation campaign to cloud people’s minds. Column: The most striking side effect of ivermectin appears to be stupidity 2021-08-31T04:00:00Z They cannot at one and the same time complain that politicians are shameless mountebanks while eagerly purchasing every jar of snake oil on offer. Editorial Roundup: US 2020-09-09T04:00:00Z But there was one small difficulty: This hawk was no Truman or Reagan, but rather a reality-television mountebank whose real attitude toward China policy was, basically, whatever gets me re-elected works. Opinion | The Chinese Decade 2020-07-11T04:00:00Z He describes “quacks and mountebanks” peddling false cures and the poor people who “even poisoned themselves beforehand for fear of the poison of the infection”. Defoe's Plague Year was written in 1722 but speaks clearly to our time 2020-05-05T04:00:00Z Scientific debates that are typically confined to a small community of experts become fodder for mountebanks of all kinds. Social-media companies must flatten the curve of misinformation 2020-04-13T04:00:00Z Even the mountebanks, the leaders of no convictions, can shift the course of events. Opinion | ‘War and Peace’ is all about Trump. Who knew? 2017-08-11T04:00:00Z They appear to be the counterparts of the old mountebanks or street-doctors.” The 100 best nonfiction books: No 66 – London Labour and the London Poor by Henry Mayhew (1851) 2017-05-08T04:00:00Z “Fancy language, senator. I will duel you at dawn you charlatan, you mountebank, you mendacious flimflamming dissembler. Bring a pistol and a thesaurus,” he quipped. Late-night hosts on Jared Kushner: 'If anyone could drive Isis crazy, it’s a New York landlord' 2017-04-05T04:00:00Z The Presidency has hardly been free of mountebanks and worse. Preserve, Protect, and Defend 2017-01-19T05:00:00Z This bunch doesn’t have to make do with a comb-over TV mountebank for a leader; for this class, the choices are always pretty good, and this year they happen to be excellent. The Podesta emails show who runs America – and how they do it | Thomas Frank 2016-10-31T04:00:00Z But whether any of the other 16 mountebanks could have appealed outside of the GOP base is an enormous question mark. Playing the “What if?” game: The alternate reality where Trump vs. Clinton never happens 2016-08-12T04:00:00Z One is a rank political novice, a buffoon, a mountebank, and a demagogue. ‘Brexit’ Is Locking In the Forces That Already Haunt the Global Economy 2016-06-27T04:00:00Z “Some dreadful mountebank in a long-tailed coat will open . . . with a windy speech; then another mountebank will repeat the same rubbish in other words.” How to Steal an Election 2016-06-27T04:00:00Z And now how about a word form the prophet of profits, the counselor of Kochs, the liaison of the libertarians, the clown of capital, the mountebank of "mutual gains from trade," the moralizer of misery. Why There’s Hope for the Middle Class (With Help From China) 2016-04-15T04:00:00Z Gary Dahl, the man behind that scheme — described variously as a marketing genius and a genial mountebank — died on March 23 at 78. Gary Dahl, Inventor of the Pet Rock, Dies at 78 2015-03-31T04:00:00Z Sometimes he is crusading against the mountebanks and charlatans. Beliefs: In Book, Mark Edward Tells Tricks Used as a Medium 2012-09-01T02:32:16Z In any profession there exist mensches and mountebanks; in all industries, the implementation of proper practice demands effort and enforcement. SchoolBook: Teaching or Cheating? Notes From the Tutoring Front Lines 2012-06-04T15:47:14Z One evening, after about a week of these distasteful peregrinations, the two mountebanks came out of a public house in Fulham Road where they had been forced to endure a more than usually intolerable patronage. The Early Life and Adventures of Sylvia Scarlett 2012-04-26T02:00:17.327Z With these facts before you, turn to your Shakespeare, and see how he regarded the popular delusions thus created and fostered, with their “Distinguished cheaters, prating mountebanks, And many such libertines of sin.” The Doctor in History, Literature, Folk-Lore, Etc. 2012-04-25T02:01:14.613Z In its poorest estate it is content with a patent outside, the puffing of some mountebank, and the abuse of rivals. A Breeze from the Woods, 2nd Ed. 2012-04-23T02:00:29.820Z But his chief delight was in pursuing the profession of a juggler, mountebank, or merry-andrew, among the lowest rabble. Curiosities of Human Nature 2012-04-03T02:00:27.167Z In setting a financial value upon their talents, they seem to the moralist, who is investigating still unexplained phenomena, to place themselves on the level of mountebanks. Mysterious Psychic Forces An Account of the Author's Investigations in Psychical Research, Together with Those of Other European Savants 2012-03-28T02:00:29.747Z But if the audiences wished her to be English, she found that being English off the stage was a disadvantage among these continental mountebanks. The Early Life and Adventures of Sylvia Scarlett 2012-04-26T02:00:17.327Z As a mountebank, he frequented fairs, markets, and other places of public resort, and addressed those assembled in recommendation of his medicines. The Doctor in History, Literature, Folk-Lore, Etc. 2012-04-25T02:01:14.613Z Here we listened to a few boosters and mountebanks whose rustic eloquence was no doubt intended to give the unwary the impression that they were on the site of the coming metropolis of the west. The Conquest The Story of a Negro Pioneer 2012-03-26T02:00:32.910Z To Lucian the man was a quack, an advertiser, a mountebank, who burnt himself to death merely to attract notice. The Conflict of Religions in the Early Roman Empire 2012-03-11T03:00:13.983Z That was a case of high mystification, of jugglery worthy of a street-corner mountebank. Mysterious Psychic Forces An Account of the Author's Investigations in Psychical Research, Together with Those of Other European Savants 2012-03-28T02:00:29.747Z I’ve got myself into the swirl of mountebanks, and somehow I must continue with them. The Early Life and Adventures of Sylvia Scarlett 2012-04-26T02:00:17.327Z These mountebanks at one end of their stage place their trunk, which is replenished with a world of new-fangled trumperies. The Doctor in History, Literature, Folk-Lore, Etc. 2012-04-25T02:01:14.613Z To this day, in India, some voracious mountebanks devour a live sheep as an exhibition. Curiosities of Medical Experience 2012-03-09T03:00:20.410Z They were denominated; 'mountebank impostors,' and 'men of a desperate and unlawful faction.' The Trial of Henry Hetherington 2012-03-06T03:00:21.680Z Travelling mountebanks that hypnotise in public can do harm, and they should be prevented from so doing. Essays In Pastoral Medicine 2012-03-05T03:00:09.993Z Yet, after all, he might not be a mountebank; there was really no reason to suppose he was anything but poor and lonely, though that was enough indeed. The Early Life and Adventures of Sylvia Scarlett 2012-04-26T02:00:17.327Z While the music plays, the principal mountebank opens his trunk and sets abroad his wares. The Doctor in History, Literature, Folk-Lore, Etc. 2012-04-25T02:01:14.613Z A mountebank with one half his talent for rant would make his fortune!' My Lords of Strogue, Vol. I (of III) A Chronicle of Ireland, from the Convention to the Union 2012-02-15T03:00:34.177Z To say that a preacher is theatrical, is to stamp him as a kind of clerical mountebank. From the Lakes of Killarney to the Golden Horn 2012-02-15T03:00:25.610Z They hate all jugglers and mountebanks, all wanton songs and plays, as vanities and follies of this world. Secret Societies of the Middle Ages 2012-02-09T03:00:11.637Z Hell’s mimic, Satan’s mountebank of state, Deals with more devils than Heaven did e’er create. Witch, Warlock, and Magician Historical Sketches of Magic and Witchcraft in England and Scotland 2012-02-06T03:00:14.350Z Later in the century, the eccentric Earl of Rochester, on one occasion, played the mountebank on Tower Hill, and the example was followed by more than one comedian of the next century. The Doctor in History, Literature, Folk-Lore, Etc. 2012-04-25T02:01:14.613Z You may see the place now for sixpence; they have fiddlers there every day, and sometimes buffoons and mountebanks hire the Riding-House and do their tricks and tumbling there. The Brighton Road The Classic Highway to the South 2012-01-24T03:00:26.933Z He prefers to be amused, and is fond of buffoons and dancing girls, and takes more delight in 328 jugglers and mountebanks than in the society of the most eminent men of science in Europe. From the Lakes of Killarney to the Golden Horn 2012-02-15T03:00:25.610Z In the more open spaces jugglers and mountebanks, usually accompanied by performing animals, went through all sorts of gambols and antics. Legends & Romances of Spain 2012-01-10T03:00:18.593Z “The variety of strange people there—gipsies, you know, and all that—mountebanks, and thimble-riggers, and beggars, and musicians—you'll wonder how such hordes could be collected in all England, or where they come from.” Checkmate 2012-01-03T03:00:10.887Z Upon enquiry, I found this great equipage belonged to a mountebank, and that his name being Smith, the motto was a pun upon his name. The Doctor in History, Literature, Folk-Lore, Etc. 2012-04-25T02:01:14.613Z Swindlers and mountebanks throng hither, adroit thieves creep stealthily about, all Indian customs and fashions are represented, all castes jostle each other. Narrative of the Circumnavigation of the Globe by the Austrian Frigate Novara, Volume I (Commodore B. Von Wullerstorf-Urbair,) Undertaken by Order of the Imperial Government in the Years 1857, 1858, & 1859, Under the Immediate Auspices of His I. and R. Highness the Archduke Ferdinand Maximilian, Commander-In-Chief of the Austrian Navy. 2012-01-02T03:00:25.873Z In this it was said that he was too much the mountebank; but if so it was a great mountebank. Lord Chatham His Early Life and Connections 2012-01-02T03:00:18.893Z Sometimes he organized a country ball; another time he had a stage put up in the large room of the Lyceum, and got up a play; and he occasionally chartered a mountebank or musical company. The Fourth Estate, vol.1 2011-12-25T03:00:10.170Z In order to form a conception of the scenes which were enacted on an Italian piazza crowded with charlatans, mountebanks and players, we must have recourse again to Garzoni. The Memoirs of Count Carlo Gozzi; Volume the First 2011-12-12T03:00:27.507Z A passage in a letter written by the second Lord Lyttelton, about the year 1774, shows that this style of travelling was then still kept up by mountebanks. The Doctor in History, Literature, Folk-Lore, Etc. 2012-04-25T02:01:14.613Z At every cross street were officers on elephants, "men in gilt Mambrino helmets and mountebank costumes, decked out with triple buckram capes, and shoulder lappets, and paltry embroidery." The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 120, October, 1867. 2011-12-12T03:00:23.897Z Such a plan could only be deemed possible by an alien King and a mountebank Minister. Lord Chatham His Early Life and Connections 2012-01-02T03:00:18.893Z Many mountebanks carry some of these alive in earthen jars, and charmed so that they do not bite, and with them they gain money, putting them round their necks, and exhibiting them. A Description of the Coasts of East Africa and Malabar in the Beginning of the Sixteenth Century 2011-12-11T03:00:10.483Z The mountebank clears his throat and relates his fabulous pedigree. The Memoirs of Count Carlo Gozzi; Volume the First 2011-12-12T03:00:27.507Z Some itinerant mountebank, replied I, if one may judge from his musical followers. The Doctor in History, Literature, Folk-Lore, Etc. 2012-04-25T02:01:14.613Z Who is this mountebank to whom he speaks?' A Second Coming 2011-11-29T03:00:16.693Z It's all a farce," he said, "and, God knows, I'm the biggest mountebank of them all. The Transgression of Andrew Vane a novel 2011-11-17T03:00:37.293Z The open space in front of the Morgue is a favourite 'pitch' of the mountebanks who earn their livelihood on Paris streets. Mated from the Morgue A tale of the Second Empire 2011-11-15T03:00:23.507Z He determined to be very prompt at the rendezvous, and not to take his charmer to a private dining-room overlooking a mountebank's booth. San-Cravate; or, The Messengers; Little Streams 2011-11-14T03:00:22.247Z The mountebank has long fallen from his former high estate. The Doctor in History, Literature, Folk-Lore, Etc. 2012-04-25T02:01:14.613Z I'll turn conjurer—fire-eater—mountebank;—set the fools agape at fairs and pastimes. The Legendary and Poetical Remains of John Roby author of 'Traditions of Lancashire', with a sketch of his literary life and character 2011-11-07T02:00:18.317Z It is evident that the officious attempts of many well-meaning adults to amuse, even if it involve making mountebanks of themselves, are ofttimes destined to humiliation. The Open Question a tale of two temperaments 2011-10-25T02:00:22.173Z Master of the Revels to his Majesty; and in particular, to suppress one Mr. Irish, Mr. Thomas Varney, and Thomas Yeats, mountebank, who have no license, that they may be proceeded against according to law.” The Cries of London Exhibiting Several of the Itinerant Traders of Antient and Modern Times 2011-10-23T02:00:21.883Z If he has not, it would be well, if not profane, to witness it; for never before has he seen such mountebank tricks. Popery! As it Was and as it Is Also, Auricular Confession; And Popish Nunneries 2011-10-12T02:00:50.077Z The mountebank doctor of former times, with his carriage, his zany, and his musicians, can now only be met with in the provincial towns of France and Italy, and even there but seldom. The Doctor in History, Literature, Folk-Lore, Etc. 2012-04-25T02:01:14.613Z Until you do this, we must look upon your denunciations against O'Connell, as the veriest farce that ever was enacted by the veriest mountebank scoundrel that ever filched a dollar from the pockets of Americans. Auricular Confession and Popish Nunneries Volumes I. and II., Complete 2011-10-12T02:00:45.373Z But an observer by describing the numerous gesticulations of this sainted mountebank, disclosed the secret of his artifice. Monks, Popes, and their Political Intrigues 2011-10-12T02:00:43.383Z Leave off your mountebank tricks with us, and fall to your business in good earnest. Dryden's Works Vol. 3 (of 18) Sir Martin Mar-All; The Tempest; An Evening's Love; Tyrannic Love 2011-10-08T02:00:22.420Z It was the latest song from England, and was vociferously encored; but not for the first time, it seemed, and the mountebank would only bow and scrape. Denis Dent A Novel 2011-10-04T02:00:16.973Z The alleged unemployed who assemble on Tower Hill are becoming worse even than mountebanks. Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 105, September 9, 1893 2011-09-30T02:00:15.237Z There were mountebanks and quacksalvers, lapidaries at work, and astrologers in their tents. The Tangled Skein 2011-09-21T02:00:29.687Z Why, some think he's a spy; some guess he's a mountebank; some say one thing, some another;—but, for my own part, I believe he's a jesuit. The Beaux-Stratagem A comedy in five acts 2011-08-26T02:00:26.760Z And as the artist is often unsuccessful, while the mountebank succeeds; so farces more commonly take the people than comedies. Dryden's Works Vol. 3 (of 18) Sir Martin Mar-All; The Tempest; An Evening's Love; Tyrannic Love 2011-10-08T02:00:22.420Z And then let Penn the Quaker add, Thou gormandizing Priest, one of the abominable tribe; thou bane of reason, and beast of the earth; thou best to be spared of mankind; thou mountebank priest. John Greenleaf Whittier His Life, Genius, and Writings 2011-08-26T02:00:22.667Z So we find dialect, as a branch of Literature, worthy of the high attention and employment of the greatest master in letters—not the merest mountebank. Neghborly Poems and Dialect Sketches 2011-08-15T02:00:25.930Z Those who had the means, seemed to think of nothing else but dressing like apes or mountebanks, and intriguing with the women. Twenty-Five Years in the Rifle Brigade 2011-07-21T02:00:19.027Z “Bumbastus kept a devil’s bird Shut in the pummel of his sword, That taught him all the cunning pranks Of past and future mountebanks.” The Browning Cyclop?dia A Guide to the Study of the Works of Robert Browning 2011-07-16T02:00:19.397Z As they turned their backs on the humorist and moved away, the Bishop asked: "What did you say the name of that mountebank is?" Recollections of a Varied Life 2011-07-14T02:00:11.837Z It was not beyond the reach of strolling vagabonds, and impudent mountebanks. The Puddleford Papers, Or Humors of the West 2011-07-12T02:00:33.027Z Men of education and address entered the profession, thereby elevating it from the charlatanry of the strolling mountebank to the dignity of a theatrical performance. Magic In which are given clear and concise explanations of all the well-known illusions as well as many new ones. 2011-07-10T02:00:22.253Z Close by the booth of the distinguished and learned mountebank stood a light, under the image of the Madonna, in a little stone-walled chapel, where was also an iron-bound poor-box nailed fast upon a block. King Eric and the Outlaws, Vol. 2 or, the Throne, the Church, and the People in the Thirteenth Century. Vol. I. 2011-07-07T02:00:26.270Z But offer to make these mountebanks respectable, promise them any reward you like to forsake their ways, to work and live as the rest of the world, and your offer will not tempt them. The Browning Cyclop?dia A Guide to the Study of the Works of Robert Browning 2011-07-16T02:00:19.397Z In literature these mountebanks impress me as detrimental impertinents—in conversation they seem to me nuisances. Recollections of a Varied Life 2011-07-14T02:00:11.837Z On the king's arrival at Helsingborg the scientific mountebank had been set at liberty. King Eric and the Outlaws, Vol. 3 or, the Throne, the Church, and the People in the Thirteenth Century. Vol. I. 2011-07-07T02:00:24.890Z Did I tell you Mr. Adriance, Tony's father, has offered me a considerable sum to stop 'making a mountebank' of myself at the restaurant? A Man's Hearth 2011-06-25T02:00:17.093Z It resembled the chariots on which mountebanks and jugglers perambulated the country, but was of larger size and more tastefully constructed. In Both Worlds 2011-06-08T02:00:17.360Z Or, like a starving mountebank, expose Thy beauty and thy tear-drowned smile to those Who wait thy jeste to drive away thy spleen. The Poems and Prose Poems of Charles Baudelaire with an Introductory Preface by James Huneker 2011-06-01T02:00:22.477Z Standing in a careless pose, apparently regardless of what was taking place, the mountebank, at the Governor's question, shot a quick glance from him to her. The Lady of the Mount 2011-05-24T02:00:15.640Z In the letter, Aag� had not been able to conceal his suspicion of the wonderful mountebank, and the singular uneasiness which this man's operations and expressions had caused him. King Eric and the Outlaws, Vol. 3 or, the Throne, the Church, and the People in the Thirteenth Century. Vol. I. 2011-07-07T02:00:24.890Z Undoubtedly a large proportion of the "professors of magnetism" are mere mountebanks, and the pretenders to clairvoyance may in all cases probably be set down as knaves, or as very ignorant or feeble-minded persons. The International Monthly, Volume 4, No. 1, August, 1851 2011-05-18T02:00:11.200Z The situation waxed tragic with this mountebank for a leader. History of the Commune of 1871 2011-05-07T02:00:33.113Z The Deep Harbor Eagle ran a leader one morning to prove Shaw a clown and a mountebank. I Walked in Arden 2011-04-10T02:00:06.137Z "No! it's no joke," answered the mountebank, rapidly passing an end of the strap, binding the soldier, about a post of the stall and securing it, sailor-wise. The Lady of the Mount 2011-05-24T02:00:15.640Z He narrowly watched the junker, as well as the foreign mountebank, about whom Aag� had expressed himself so dubiously. King Eric and the Outlaws, Vol. 3 or, the Throne, the Church, and the People in the Thirteenth Century. Vol. I. 2011-07-07T02:00:24.890Z "How good the imitation of voice was, too," added Heffernan: "'Giving two hours to your dress, and twenty minutes to your devotions, you come into God's house looking more like mountebanks than Christian men!'" The Knight Of Gwynne, Vol. II (of II) 2011-04-04T02:00:06.657Z The swings move to and fro, the wheels-of-fortune turn, booth-keepers cry their sixpenny wares, the mountebanks allure spectators, and promise half their receipts to the wounded. History of the Commune of 1871 2011-05-07T02:00:33.113Z After that period, they relapsed into a race of impudent buffoons; and, in the reign of Augustus, were classed, by Horace, with mountebanks and mendicants563. History of Roman Literature from its Earliest Period to the Augustan Age. Volume I 2011-04-03T02:00:22.843Z "It is," the mountebank said, at the same time studying, from where he stood, different parts of the Mount with cautious, sidelong looks; "but my poor frogs!—all torn! trampled!" The Lady of the Mount 2011-05-24T02:00:15.640Z One impertinent little girl as fat as an ox, told me it was not decent to talk in such a way, and that people would call her a mountebank, if she did so. All the Days of My Life: An Autobiography The Red Leaves of a Human Heart 2011-03-31T02:00:16.763Z There were a lot of people gathered around some mountebanks. The Sword of Honor, volumes 1 & 2 or The Foundation of the French Republic, A Tale of The French Revolution 2011-03-21T02:00:09.090Z Ladies gorgeously clad, and knights, showing by their dress and bearing their anxiety to revive the glories and the follies of the age of chivalry, jostled mountebanks, mendicants and vendors of all kinds. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 3 "Fenton, Edward" to "Finistere" 2011-03-14T03:01:00.580Z These Histrions being mounted on a stage, like our mountebanks, performed a sort of ballet, by dancing and gesticulating to the sound of musical instruments. History of Roman Literature from its Earliest Period to the Augustan Age. Volume I 2011-04-03T02:00:22.843Z "That," roughly, "you will find out!" and stepped down the hall, followed by the soldiers, mountebank and dwarf, the last of whom took leave of them at the door. The Lady of the Mount 2011-05-24T02:00:15.640Z But God's precious business cannot be carried on, even by a mountebank, without money, and there will be a collection towards the expenses of the Revival. Anna of the Five Towns 2011-03-08T03:00:38.117Z His look and manner were so different from those of the common wayfarer or mountebank that he found he need stand in no fear of being dealt with as a vagrant. The Road to Paris 2011-03-07T03:00:11.103Z Even a mountebank of the gutter may turn traitor in the wilderness. The Plowshare and the Sword A Tale of Old Quebec 2011-02-24T03:01:05.143Z Joyful in thy little jail, Thou dost spread thy bushy tail: Playing many a curious prank, Tumbling like a mountebank! Awd Isaac, The Steeple Chase, and other Poems With a glossary of the Yorkshire Dialect 2011-02-16T03:00:41.223Z You see," he went on, "things have been happening since you elected to enact the mountebank. The Lady of the Mount 2011-05-24T02:00:15.640Z I am God's mountebank, doing God's precious business in my own way. Anna of the Five Towns 2011-03-08T03:00:38.117Z Infamous are the dealings of the heretics with sorcerers very many, with mountebanks, with astrologers, with philosophers, to wit, such as are given to curious questions. An Essay on the Development of Christian Doctrine 2011-01-31T03:00:14.710Z He is a past master in the art of disguise and he is a born mountebank. Lord Tony's Wife An Adventure of the Scarlet Pimpernel 2011-01-31T03:00:13.650Z The mountebanks perform their tricks and dances as at the fair of Saint Bartholomew, while the street urchins for half a penny proclaim the complaint against the doomed man. Garrick's Pupil 2011-01-22T03:00:14.780Z "To take this mountebank player away, when it pleased her Ladyship to—" "Yes; to take him away!" interrupted the lady in hurried tones, the agitation of which she strove to conceal. The Lady of the Mount 2011-05-24T02:00:15.640Z I found the open court filled with French and natives, all crowding round a band of pilgrims or mountebanks who had come from the South. Abb? Aubain and Mosaics 2011-01-21T03:00:12.617Z Hence the epithets of itinerant, mountebank, conjurer, cheat, sophist, sorcerer, heaped upon the teachers of Christianity; sometimes to account for the report or apparent truth of their miracles, sometimes to explain their success. An Essay on the Development of Christian Doctrine 2011-01-31T03:00:14.710Z Those cursed English adventurers are passing clever at disguise—they are born mountebanks the lot of them. Lord Tony's Wife An Adventure of the Scarlet Pimpernel 2011-01-31T03:00:13.650Z They are indeed, many of them, sui generis, something in style and demeanour between the magnifico and the mountebank, and yet amongst them are men of appearance and talent worthy of a better station. William Shakespeare as he lived. An Historical Tale 2011-01-01T03:00:20.833Z "Because it was seditious, designed to set authority at naught?" interrupted the listener, grimly eying for an instant the motionless form of the mountebank. The Lady of the Mount 2011-05-24T02:00:15.640Z This stereotyped advertisement has a flavour of the drum and cymbals of the mountebank. Jonathan and His Continent Rambles Through American Society 2010-12-20T17:12:16.420Z The fact is, any poor devil of a mountebank is a king compared to one of us. The Joy of Living (Es lebe das Leben) A Play in Five Acts The man above him was half prophet, half mountebank, but he was right. The Undying Past He could play the murderer, the insidious betrayer, and the buffoon or mountebank, with equal address and with equal satisfaction. Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 14 When the door had closed on the mountebank and the commandant, he turned to his daughter. The Lady of the Mount 2011-05-24T02:00:15.640Z Our mountebank story of captivating Howe and his army is come to nothing. Familiar Letters of John Adams and His Wife Abigail Adams During the Revolution with a Memoir of Mrs. Adams Grey-haired mercers that stood and conversed in groups, and coltish apprentices in flat caps and suits of blue I noted, and otherwhiles dancers and mountebanks with a host of idle folk following. Idonia: A Romance of Old London In the middle ages the tabor and pipe were a good deal associated with the performances of strollers and mountebanks. Rustic Sounds and Other Studies in Literature and Natural History This done, we have yet a word or two in store for the members of the mountebank coalition. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 58, No. 362, December 1845 The mountebank looked first at the closed blinds; then at the door, and a sudden determination came to his eyes. The Lady of the Mount 2011-05-24T02:00:15.640Z It is to solve the enigma of Dante's works, by imagining for him a character in which it is hard to say which predominates, the pedant, mountebank, or infidel. Dante. An essay. To which is added a translation of De Monarchia. On the stage, he delights in jigs; and to really please him, the best of actors have to become rivals of the mountebanks at a fair. Friend Mac Donald In my first sleep came four rogues disguised with frightful devils' masks into my room and to my bed, and there they capered around like mountebanks and twelfth-night fools. The Adventurous Simplicissimus being the description of the Life of a Strange vagabond named Melchior Sternfels von Fuchshaim I rather think I should, too, and no mistake; and I would rather live with you than with my old cheat of a mountebank, pounding his drugs. The Mysteries of Paris, Volume 2 of 6 Had the light been stronger they must have seen the start the mountebank gave. The Lady of the Mount 2011-05-24T02:00:15.640Z "She wears it round her neck in a locket, the vain old mountebank." Sinister Street, vol. 2 A mountebank, who gained his living by thrusting a sword, about a foot long, down his gullet was admitted to a surgical ward. Springtime and Other Essays “Machine—clod—mountebank”— the bitter words rang through his consciousness again and again. The Master's Violin I never came here to play the mountebank, to provide a new sensation for these tired dolls of Society. The Missioner As the mountebank walked out of the apartment of the Governor's daughter, he drew himself up with an air of expectancy, like a man preparing for some sudden climax. The Lady of the Mount 2011-05-24T02:00:15.640Z A bit of a mountebank, beyond a question, but with a temper so sunny and a heart so generous that in spite of all his faults Jubilee Jim had a host of friends. Life on the Stage This woman, albeit a notorious career has classed her with mountebanks and worse in the minds of reasonable beings, had yet by some element or other in her character retained a degree of public respect. The Death-Blow to Spiritualism Being the True Story of the Fox Sisters Stories are told of mountebanks sitting in ovens, and meat being cooked by the side of them. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, No. V, October, 1850, Volume I. It began to seem possible—to the disaffected or naturally pessimistic, more than possible—that the Prussian mountebank might make good his anachronistic boast to wear down and conquer the world. The Book of Susan A Novel "Will you get out, or—" and the mountebank stepped toward the other with apparently undisguised intention. The Lady of the Mount 2011-05-24T02:00:15.640Z He was no longer a mountebank to her, but an unusual man. H. R. Nothing that Melville did was done with singleness of purpose, except, as his father sometimes said, with a sigh, "dress himself like a mountebank and copy London fashions." Under the Mendips A Tale Little by little, however, the novelties poured forth by these two fertile writers, who kept on treating the clever fellows as contemptible mountebanks and insipid buffoons, prevailed, and reduced them to almost total neglect. The Memoirs of Count Carlo Gozzi Volume the Second The painter used to be a monk—and is a mountebank! Helena Brett's Career Whereupon the mountebank quickened his footsteps, once more ceased his questioning. The Lady of the Mount 2011-05-24T02:00:15.640Z Perhaps you never heard of that notorious business, nor knew of a time when all Paris went mad together, and bartered everything of price and value for the worthless scrip of a mountebank's invention. Sir Jasper Carew His Life and Experience Claire saw him still, and, while the wonderful mountebank of the Soko passed, he stood in the tent door like a statue of ebony, a rooted reality. Bye-Ways They obtain it under the name of hedri from the traveling hucksters and gatherers of herbs, who, on their side, get it from the glass-blowers, or purchase it from the cow-doctors, quacks, or mountebanks. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, February, 1852 My word, though, I thought what a quiet-looking fellow you were before; but now, what with the rifle and bayonet and that broad-brimmed hat, you look a regular mountebank! With Rifle and Bayonet A Story of the Boer War In the shadow of the Tower of the King stood the mountebank she had seen but a short time before on the sands. The Lady of the Mount 2011-05-24T02:00:15.640Z The long hair, the knee-breeches, the lilies, the velvet, all the mountebank trappings had gone. Oscar Wilde An Idler's Impression “You have disgraced yourself by falling in love with a strolling player, that mountebank, Corsini.” The Intriguers Anon, the painted and tinseled queen of an itinerant show, where Gilbert enacted the mountebank, and by the brilliance of his fascinating eloquence drew into his treasury the hard-earned savings of the rustic gazers. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, February, 1852 The mountebank, with the cunning of his kind, thought to flatter this vain and lovely lady by prophesying: "Some day thou shalt be the wife of the greatest king on earth." Women of Mediæval France Woman: in all ages and in all countries Vol. 5 (of 10) "Take those men into custody and—who is this fellow?" turning to the mountebank, a mournful figure above the wreckage of his theater and poor puppets scattered, haphazard, like victims of some untoward disaster. The Lady of the Mount 2011-05-24T02:00:15.640Z It was not of the least use to me that I knew he was not the illustrious general, but simply a mountebank. A Day's Ride A Life's Romance Tricksters and mountebanks have pretended to such power in every age, but they have had no other dupes than the unlettered multitude.' Gerald Fitzgerald The Chevalier The mass of the people in the capital were satisfied to have an imperial mountebank ruling over them. Roman Women Once, when I was in camp, I came across a mountebank who was making quite a large fortune in this way. Among the Wild Tribes of the Afghan Frontier A Record of Sixteen Years' Close Intercourse with the Natives of the Indian Marches At the same time the mountebank stepped back to the side of a great bronze in front of the balcony, where, standing in the shadow, he was screened. The Lady of the Mount 2011-05-24T02:00:15.640Z He was too proud to serve as a sign for a barber's shop; he would not travel round as a mountebank and exhibit himself for money. Tales of the Caravan, Inn, and Palace The melancholy Dane became a grotesque mountebank, and Shakespeare's thoughts the dreariest sort of commonplace. Belford's Magazine, Vol 2, December 1888 Now, presto! with the sudden trickeries of a mountebank the sprite who played with my destinies ushered in another unprefaced era. The Portal of Dreams She cannot alter his wild and eccentric nature, which makes him an original, almost a mountebank, which in another man would be intolerable. The London Pulpit The minutes wore away; motionless in his corner, the mountebank now watched; then with his head on his elbow, seemed sunk in thought. The Lady of the Mount 2011-05-24T02:00:15.640Z He allows all the strolling players, mountebanks, and jugglers to exhibit, because, he says, it is a charity. Coelebs In Search of a Wife “Oh yes, I was married at a village near Bury, in Suffolk; I was travelling as a mountebank at the time.” Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 377, March 1847 The mountebank stops for a moment at an elevated part of the mountainous road from where the plain and the hill on which the burg is built can be seen. The Poniard's Hilt Or Karadeucq and Ronan. A Tale of Bagauders and Vagres It is strange to record that the first serious difficulty which James encountered with the nobles who supported him, arose not over a question of State, but through the machinations of a foreign mountebank. A Prince of Good Fellows "I," began the mountebank, "I—" he repeated, when courage and words alike seemed to fail him. The Lady of the Mount 2011-05-24T02:00:15.640Z "It comes of your mountebank ways, of course," said the spear-wort. The Pond He would follow a mountebank, carry a dice-box, or fiddle at the fair. The Shepherd of Salisbury Plain and Other Tales The appearance of the grey-bearded man suggests a mountebank, one of the class that travels from city to city and village to village exhibiting trained animals. The Poniard's Hilt Or Karadeucq and Ronan. A Tale of Bagauders and Vagres We are all like a lot of mountebanks behind an illuminated sheet. Belford's Magazine, Volume II, No. 8, January, 1889 "Up with you!" he cried sternly and gave the mountebank a contemptuous thrust. The Lady of the Mount 2011-05-24T02:00:15.640Z "Leap-frog" had been his especial delight; and no mountebank could bound to a greater height than he. The Boy Slaves It is not a mountebank; it does not work by a charm; but it offers to cure your worst corruptions by wholesome, though sometimes bitter prescriptions. The Shepherd of Salisbury Plain and Other Tales "Come, tie the bear to one of the beams, old mountebank, and let us begin." The Poniard's Hilt Or Karadeucq and Ronan. A Tale of Bagauders and Vagres “Is the fellow mad—a mountebank?” said the colonel, whose anger was now at its white heat. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Volume 1, No. 4, September, 1850 "Wait, and find out!" returned the soldier roughly, and the mountebank spoke no more for some time; held his head lower, until, regarding him, his guardian must needs laugh. The Lady of the Mount 2011-05-24T02:00:15.640Z This German Socialism, which took its school-boy task so seriously and solemnly, and extolled its poor stock in trade in such mountebank fashion, meanwhile gradually lost its pedantic innocence. Manifesto of the Communist Party It is well when these mountebanks meet with treatment such as they deserve. Talkers With Illustrations They are proceeding along a path, which, a few paces ahead of him, runs into the road on which the mountebank is walking. The Poniard's Hilt Or Karadeucq and Ronan. A Tale of Bagauders and Vagres These peddlers and these mountebanks Are famous friends! The German Classics, v. 20 Masterpieces of German Literature For the first time in that isolated domain of the dreaded Governor, the mountebank appeared momentarily to forget his fears and gazed with interest around him. The Lady of the Mount 2011-05-24T02:00:15.640Z With all his one-sided skill, he was but a mountebank. In the School-Room Chapters in the Philosophy of Education Giovanni Belzoni, the once starving mountebank, became one of the most illustrious men in Europe!—an encouraging example to all those who have not only sound heads to project, but stout hearts to execute. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Volume 2, No. 12, May, 1851. Feeling reassured, the latter resumed their way and, out of prudence, walked a few paces ahead of the mountebank at what they considered a safe distance from the bear. The Poniard's Hilt Or Karadeucq and Ronan. A Tale of Bagauders and Vagres But in its heart the public ranks him with the mountebank, and reserves the right to drop him when tired of his tricks. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 20 (of 25) As he spoke, the commandant opened the door of what seemed a low out-building, not very far from the general barracks, and motioned the mountebank to enter. The Lady of the Mount 2011-05-24T02:00:15.640Z “Take your hands off her, sir, or you shall learn how mountebanks like yourself should be treated.” The Moving Finger But the bishop said he could do nothing; since which time Mr. Henley has gone on for about twenty years without control every week, as an ecclesiastical mountebank, to abuse religion.” Calamities and Quarrels of Authors Finally, in order to complete the scene, I just learn that a mountebank with a dancing bear and a monkey has been let into the burg. The Poniard's Hilt Or Karadeucq and Ronan. A Tale of Bagauders and Vagres His hair was all curled out in masses like an Italian mountebank—a most unpardonable fashion. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 20 (of 25) "When you sent for the mountebank to come to your apartments, did you know who he was?" the Governor had asked. The Lady of the Mount 2011-05-24T02:00:15.640Z I am not an ignorant mountebank, posing as a Messiah of science. The Moving Finger The picture it gives of the mixed and motley multitude fairing in the churchyard at Mauchline, with a relay of ministerial mountebanks catering for their excitement, is true to the life. Robert Burns Famous Scots Series "Now, mountebank, let us return to your bear; we had almost forgotten all about him, the wild fellow who was born in one of the lairs of the accursed Vagres." The Poniard's Hilt Or Karadeucq and Ronan. A Tale of Bagauders and Vagres For in his own thoughts he is not a mountebank—no, by God, he is not!” The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 20 (of 25) Up the Mount with shambling step, head down-bent and the same stupid expression on his face, the mountebank went docilely, though not silently. The Lady of the Mount 2011-05-24T02:00:15.640Z When you saw the manner in which the French clothed themselves, you would have taken them for mountebanks. Paris from the Earliest Period to the Present Day; Volume 1 I tremble for him; at present he is only a mountebank, but he bids fair to be a maniac. The Greville Memoirs A Journal of the Reigns of King George IV and King William IV, Vol. II The steward approached his master and said: "Seigneur, the mountebank with his bear and monkey are ready." The Poniard's Hilt Or Karadeucq and Ronan. A Tale of Bagauders and Vagres Among the throng surrounding the mountebank three persons seemed especially amused by the peroration. The Exploits of Juve Being the Second of the Series of the "Fantômas" Detective Tales "At any rate he doesn't seem to appreciate his good fortune," with a glance at the mountebank. The Lady of the Mount 2011-05-24T02:00:15.640Z There was a knock at our door next morning; I opened it, and there stood the mountebank, who modestly complained of our conduct. Émile or, Concerning Education; Extracts He is a wonderful man, the most extraordinary I ever saw, but there is more of the mountebank than of greatness in all this. The Greville Memoirs A Journal of the Reigns of King George IV and King William IV, Vol. II Ho, there, mountebank, what tricks can your bear perform? The Poniard's Hilt Or Karadeucq and Ronan. A Tale of Bagauders and Vagres It seemed a liberty for a mountebank to fall ill like real people, and they made off again in dudgeon. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson Swanston Edition Vol. 6 (of 25) "I tell you," began the mountebank, when the soldier, staring, got a fair look at the other for the first time and started back. The Lady of the Mount 2011-05-24T02:00:15.640Z She looks nice and sweet, and you say she is so; and yet here she is married to a notorious gambler, and associating with mountebanks and all sorts of malodorous people. Money Magic A Novel These mountebanks have no reverence even for what they call sacred. Arrows of Freethought "Come, rise old mountebank, I shall not hinder you in the making of your living." The Poniard's Hilt Or Karadeucq and Ronan. A Tale of Bagauders and Vagres For that matter, they are all the same, these mountebanks, tumblers, artists, and what not. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson Swanston Edition Vol. 6 (of 25) And what did he know of the mountebank, or his, Jacques', dealings with the clown? The Lady of the Mount 2011-05-24T02:00:15.640Z The end of the world has been a fertile and profitable theme with pulpit mountebanks and pious adventurers. Flowers of Freethought (First Series) Small boys dressed in stovepipe hats and swallow-tail coats, and little misses in long dresses with low necks look like mountebanks. Due South or Cuba Past and Present Count, the poor mountebank has placed himself under my protection. The Poniard's Hilt Or Karadeucq and Ronan. A Tale of Bagauders and Vagres The mountebank lay on his back upon a pallet; a large man with a Quixotic nose inflamed with drinking. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson Swanston Edition Vol. 6 (of 25) The little man's welcome, as mountebank and soldiers came within earshot, was not reassuring. The Lady of the Mount 2011-05-24T02:00:15.640Z Any Frenchman, therefore, who has any theatrical novelty to offer, whether as a political mountebank, or a bogus hero, or a peculiarly atrocious crime, is sure of a large audience. Mlle. Fouchette A Novel of French Life Miss Ramsey, haughtily: "I don't propose to do any part, if the affair can't be arranged without some such mountebank business!" The Daughter of the Storage And Other Things in Prose and Verse When it was decided that you were to be the mountebank and I the bear, we had to find a good-sized bear, and kind enough to let us have his head, jacket and hose. The Poniard's Hilt Or Karadeucq and Ronan. A Tale of Bagauders and Vagres The morning after he had been summoned to the dying mountebank, the Doctor visited the wharf at the tail of his garden, and had a long look at the running water. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson Swanston Edition Vol. 6 (of 25) Obeying the gesture, at once menacing and imperious, that accompanied these words, the mountebank, who had been eying his prospective host not without visible signs of misgiving, reluctantly entered. The Lady of the Mount 2011-05-24T02:00:15.640Z “A nostrum for jilted beaux!” called out a mountebank, seeing him standing there, preoccupied, alone, 482 at the same time tendering a pill as large as a plum. The Strollers Don Quixote let Sancho have his way; and when they had seen the caravan of mountebanks disappear, Sancho was happy in the thought that he had averted a great calamity for himself and his master. The Story of Don Quixote You may see the place now for sixpence: they have fiddlers there every day; and sometimes buffoons and mountebanks hire the Riding House and do their tricks and tumbling there. Henry Esmond; The English Humourists; The Four Georges About four of the afternoon, the mountebank rendered up his ghost; he had never been conscious since his seizure. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson Swanston Edition Vol. 6 (of 25) But in a moment had the mountebank recovered his old demeanor, and, without waiting for the troopers to obey the commandant's order, walked voluntarily toward the door and into the passage. The Lady of the Mount 2011-05-24T02:00:15.640Z Whatever he was, “poet, orator and dramatist, an English Gavazzi,” or, “mountebank,” “humbug,” or “backslider,” Mr. Gough was, even at that early period, an antagonist not to be despised. The Strollers He had neither the jumping o’ a mountebank, nor the sliding o’ a play-actor, but there was an ease in his carriage which I never saw equalled. Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Volume VI In every square rise booths of mountebanks and jesters; and we have under our windows a circus-tent, in which a little Venetian company, with five horses, is giving a show. Cuore (Heart) An Italian Schoolboy's Journal The mountebank’s profile was enlarged upon the wall in caricature, and it was strange to see his nose shorten and lengthen as the flame was blown about by draughts. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson Swanston Edition Vol. 6 (of 25) "Yonder looks like some grand lady's bower," as he followed his captors past this more attractive edifice, the mountebank ventured to observe. The Lady of the Mount 2011-05-24T02:00:15.640Z We have always been, and must continue to be, overrun with pretenders, mountebanks, blood relations of Charles Fox, Lord Byron, and the Guelphs, who are always in the market. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 122, December, 1867 Every man's conscience pleaded guilty to the charge; and the mountebank was dismissed with applause and laughter. The Ancient History of the Egyptians, Carthaginians, Assyrians, Babylonians, Medes and Persians, Macedonians and Grecians (Vol. 1 of 6) The word mountebank is spoken as though it were an insult; but they earn their living honestly, nevertheless, by amusing all the world—and how they work! Cuore (Heart) An Italian Schoolboy's Journal Beginning life with mountebanks and thieves, passing onward to the society and friendship of philosophers, he may be said to have skimmed the volume of human life.” The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson Swanston Edition Vol. 6 (of 25) When you had only a mountebank to deal with! The Lady of the Mount 2011-05-24T02:00:15.640Z Howell Harris, the apostle of Wales, encountering a party of mountebanks, sprang into their midst exclaiming, in a solemn voice, "Let us pray," and then proceeded to thunder forth the judgments of the Lord. Introduction to the Science of Sociology Among the idlers of Aix, whom in his loftiness he despised, he was but the fiddling mountebank to whom any greasy wallower in riches could cast a disdainful franc. The Belovéd Vagabond Much for James Scarlett, tamer of lions and general mountebank,” I said, laughing down the rising tide of bitterness. The Maids of Paradise The mountebank was curious, the mountebank’s doxy was kind; both applauded lustily the boy’s resolve to march to Paris, cost what it might cost, and make his fortune there. The Duke's Motto A Melodrama They are singularly clever, these Indian mountebanks, especially in sleight of hand tricks. Due West or Round the World in Ten Months The fairs, the mountebanks, the public rejoicings of the people, were all Satanic. Introduction to the Science of Sociology "Do I look too grotesque a mountebank Tomfool?" he asked in English. The Belovéd Vagabond Soldiers in red breeches, peasants in embroidered jackets, strolling mountebanks all tinselled and rouged—they were all one to me.... The Maids of Paradise "Henri de Lagardere, a gentleman born, without a decent relative, without a decent friend, without a penny, making his livelihood as a strolling player in the booth of a mountebank." The Duke's Motto A Melodrama I can neither find reason nor honour in the mouths of those literary mountebanks in the hire of the Police, who dance in the kennels for the amusement of lacqueys. Memoirs To Illustrate The History Of My Time Volume 1 So you restored the money to the widow, publicly, of course, because you love playing to the gallery and ranting and posing, like the mountebank that you are. The Confessions of Arsène Lupin "You must often have had your head against this mountebank jacket of mine." The Belovéd Vagabond I know him, but what do you make of him—a mountebank, a buffoon?” The Brothers Karamazov The rustling heard at intervals, was but the fluttering of bright wings amid the foliage; or the rushing of some mountebank squirrel in reckless evolution among the branches—sounds harmonising with the scene. The Wild Huntress Love in the Wilderness I can find neither reason nor principle in the mouths of those literary mountebanks hired by the police, who dance in the gutters for the amusement of lacqueys.... Memoirs To Illustrate The History Of My Time Volume 1 To the gentle pretenders themselves, we have but a few words to say at parting:— "Out you impostors, Quack-salving cheating mountebanks—your skill Is to make sound men sick, and sick men, kill." The American Quarterly Review, No. 17, March 1831 The booths, the barracks, the platforms of the mountebanks, the bright-coloured crowd, diffused through this midsummer shade and spotted here and there with the rich Proven�al sunshine, must be of the most pictorial effect. A Little Tour of France We go along with Ivan, for it was he who started the “mountebank” bear, that came near mounting him on the moment of their meeting it. Bruin The Grand Bear Hunt I remember once, when I was in the world, I saw a mountebank driving ten horses at once. In Convent Walls The Story of the Despensers He thought artists were merely mountebanks, etc., etc. A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century Anything less would condemn a man as a fool or a mountebank. The Message You seem to think I am a sort of mountebank who makes a hobby of paying court to women. Bandit Love Its grotesque appearance makes it a great favourite with the Indian mountebanks; but, as many other species are also trained to dancing and monkey-tricks, the name is not characteristic. Bruin The Grand Bear Hunt In Queen Anne's reign, and for twenty years later, the open space of the fields was daily crowded with beggars, mountebanks, and noisy rabble; and it was the scene of constant uproar and frequent riots. A Book About Lawyers It is to solve the enigma of Dante's works by imagining for him a character in which it is hard to say which predominates, the pedant, mountebank, or infidel. The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 07 Then she stopped before some caricatures representing Louis Philippe as a pastry-cook, as a mountebank, as a dog, or as a leech. Sentimental Education, Volume II The History of a Young Man He saw in them nothing but a sort of mountebank, who amuse the world in its idle moments. Sketch of Handel and Beethoven Two Lectures, Delivered in the Lecture Hall of the Wimbledon Village Club, on Monday Evening, Dec. 14, 1863; and Monday Evening, Jan. 11, 1864 Doctors long ago urged her to submit to an operation; Munn refused, and he and his deluded women have been treating her by prayer for years—the miserable mountebank!” A Young Man in a Hurry and Other Short Stories Democracy," said Socrates, in one of his humorous dialogues, "is a mountebank, a kidnapper of children. The Cult of Incompetence He accordingly set out in grand state on his journey westward, escorted by his body-guard, and with his motley and innumerable horde of singers, dancers, poets, actors, and mountebanks in his train. Nero Makers of History Series Until quite recently, science has coldly ignored the alleged phenomena of Spiritualism, and treated Andrew Jackson Davis, Home, and the Davenport brothers, as if they belonged to the common fraternity of showmen and mountebanks. Modern Spiritualism The opinion of a sovereign prince must have had, moreover, a great influence over the mind of a man who considered musicians mountebanks. Sketch of Handel and Beethoven Two Lectures, Delivered in the Lecture Hall of the Wimbledon Village Club, on Monday Evening, Dec. 14, 1863; and Monday Evening, Jan. 11, 1864 The day before, Will Shakespeare had followed a company of strolling mountebanks about town instead of going to school. A Warwickshire Lad The Story of the Boyhood of William Shakespeare "For the last time," said Jonah, "I appeal to you all to let that dog-eared mountebank rake over his muck-heap, and attend to me." Jonah and Co. The press, and especially the Times newspaper, which had formerly loaded him with extravagant praises, now turned against him, and ridiculed him as a political mountebank. The Political History of England - Vol XI From Addington's Administration to the close of William IV.'s Reign (1801-1837) Yes, gentlemen, I am a charlatan—a mountebank; it is my profession, not from choice, but from necessity. The Humbugs of the World An Account of Humbugs, Delusions, Impositions, Quackeries, Deceits and Deceivers Generally, in All Ages When Jupiter is afflicted, however, he denotes quacks and mountebanks, knaves, cheats, and drunkards. Myths and Marvels of Astronomy You have no right to expect gospel from literary mountebanks. The Jessica Letters: An Editor's Romance We live in strange times," replied the other; "who knows whether mountebanks may not come to rule the roast in their turn? The Old Man of the Mountain, The Lovecharm and Pietro of Abano Tales from the German of Tieck The big men who have encountered or been associated with Addicks are prone to characterize him as a mountebank, a joker, or a chump. Frenzied Finance Vol. 1: The Crime of Amalgamated It is high time that the credulous portion of our community should be saved from the deceptions, delusions, and swindles of these blasphemous mountebanks and impostors. The Humbugs of the World An Account of Humbugs, Delusions, Impositions, Quackeries, Deceits and Deceivers Generally, in All Ages But his natural gift was to be a mountebank, a clown, a circus Hercules. Casa Braccio, Volumes 1 and 2 The amount of amusement this reporter can derive in gathering indignant replies from mountebanks and scribblers is only limited by his own sense of humour. The Merry-Go-Round "I see," said the bridegroom, "my all-sufficing friend, among his other talents, does not think that of a mountebank beneath his cultivation." The Old Man of the Mountain, The Lovecharm and Pietro of Abano Tales from the German of Tieck She wasn’t a mountebank picked up on the road! The Bill-Toppers They endeavor to attract notice as mountebanks, and then foist upon the public worthless trash, and hope thus to succeed. The Humbugs of the World An Account of Humbugs, Delusions, Impositions, Quackeries, Deceits and Deceivers Generally, in All Ages He, too, thought of Fanfar with a certain pity, for he knew that this mountebank, as he scornfully called him, was the only man who had the right to call himself the Marquis de Fongereues. The Son of Monte-Cristo He conjured with cards; he juggled with oranges; he had a mountebank’s trick of putting one leg round his neck; he imitated the voices of cats and pigs and ducks, till Mme. The Joyous Adventures of Aristide Pujol Here, too, jugglers and mountebanks of all sorts ply their trade; gypsies sing, dance, and tell fortunes; and other vocations, less respectable than these, flourish vigorously. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 87, January, 1865 Now I have mountebanks among my acquaintances!” said Lily, with an air of disgust. The Bill-Toppers The first of those classes consisted of the selfish tyrants who upheld an unjust supremacy by systematic delusions, and of grovelling mountebanks who quenched their avaricious thirst at the fountains of credulity and ignorance. The Martyrs of Science, or, The lives of Galileo, Tycho Brahe, and Kepler The mountebanks had by this time finished their meal. The Son of Monte-Cristo He had not the soul of a mountebank, for Aristide’s soul had its high and generous dwelling-place; but he had the puckish swiftness and mischief of which the successful mountebank is made. The Joyous Adventures of Aristide Pujol He had a wooden scaffold erected before his house of the same sort as the booths of the mountebanks. The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 11 His grotesque body was enveloped in yet more grotesque apparel—the piebald of the buffoon, the mottled livery of the chartered mountebank. The Proud Prince Hence the epithets of itinerant, mountebank, conjurer, cheat, sophist, and sorcerer, heaped upon the teachers of Christianity; sometimes to account for the report or apparent truth of their miracles, sometimes to explain their success. The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 03 This mountebank, this rope-dancer, had taken a great deal upon himself, certainly. The Son of Monte-Cristo “I feared the woman had no better thought than to make a mountebank of her child!” The Scarlet Letter I'll turn conjurer—fire-eater—mountebank; set the fools agape at fairs and pastimes. Traditions of Lancashire, Volume 2 Yolande gave voice to the general feeling: “It is ever the worst of these mountebanks, that they will harp on a dull jest.” The Proud Prince And I will begin by telling you that I will employ mere vulgar trickery ... the trickery of any mountebank who fools people at a country fair!' War and the Weird He went into the market and found a mountebank there, which was what he wanted. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 11 "I have a mind to become a mountebank in the streets!" said one to the other. Bouvard and Pécuchet A Tragi-comic Novel of Bourgeois Life He's compounded of something borrowed from every political mountebank who's pulled that old bunk about being a friend of the great common people and gotten away with it during the last fifty years. The Thunders of Silence I know a spell my master mountebank taught me. The Proud Prince Augusta, the hour is rife! a raging madman, a cruel mountebank and abject coward has this day forfeited all rights to sit on the throne of Augustus, thine immortal kinsman. "Unto Caesar" Jugglers and mountebanks competed for attention, outdoing even themselves in their efforts to gain the ears, the eyes, and the coins of the mob of bargain hunters. Millennium Many mountebanks and charlatans mingled with the crowd. Spontaneous Activity in Education For the rest, "he attired himself in pompous clothes, wearing doublets of brocade, cloaks trimmed with gold lace, gorgeous caps, neck-chains, and other vanities of a like description, fit for buffoons and mountebanks." New Italian sketches You should have been a mountebank and cried cures on a booth, for your wit is as nimble as an apothecary's flea. The God of Love And now the imperial mountebank was coming home himself, having ordered his triumph as he had stage-managed his deeds of valour. "Unto Caesar" Is the world, then, exhausted? and must we go back because the thumb of the mountebank jerks the other way? The Gentle Art of Making Enemies As I said at first, I am prepared to see a mountebank Perform his pretty tricks of eloquence To set the crowd agape. Mr. Faust Leap-frog had been his especial delight; and no mountebank could bound to a greater height than he. The Boy Slaves The jury foreman and all the rest there in the court-room day after day were as little to me as a lot of mountebanks on a stage. The Blue Wall A Story of Strangeness and Struggle The Cæsar had returned from Germany and Gaul having played his part of mountebank upon the arena of the world. "Unto Caesar" There were the mountebanks, and the dancers, and the driving team of fleas and the little dogs that acted a play. Chatterbox, 1906 Women had previously appeared as jugglers and mountebanks. Folkways A Study of the Sociological Importance of Usages, Manners, Customs, Mores, and Morals Brother Paul, ridiculous mountebank, was yet correct in this—the Grass chastised us rightly. Greener Than You Think Jules Fauvre with his ridiculous phrase, not one foot of our territory, not one stone of our fortresses, is no better than a mountebank, and the others are as bad. A Girl of the Commune He was a perfect mountebank, a consummate actor, and now he called to his aid his full powers of deception. "Unto Caesar" You’re a minstrel or a mountebank, I’ll be sworn; you look for all the world as silly as a tumbler when he’s been upside down and has got on his heels again. Romola Our early-Victorian oligarchs disdained their Disraeli as a mountebank because he wore the wrong waistcoats and had genius instead of common-sense. Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 150, April 12, 1916 He could not understand how a man of Valerian Harassan's reputation ever allowed such a mountebank to take his place. David Malcolm And Ciccio, splashing up on his bay horse and green cloth, he was a mountebank and an extraneous nonentity, a coloured old rag blown down the Knarborough Road into Limbo. The Lost Girl "On thy knees then, O my son!" rejoined the mountebank solemnly, "and receive the blessing of the gods." "Unto Caesar" Tito was sure now that he recognised the sharp upward-tending angles of the face under the mitre: it was that of Maestro Vaiano, the mountebank, from whom he had rescued Tessa. Romola Its spirit evaporated in tavern harangues, to which the multitude went to listen, as to the chattering and grimaces of a mountebank. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 378, April, 1847 More soberly the men shook their dice; the scamp-student took up his book, but even Horace seemed not to absorb his undivided attention; a mountebank attempted several tricks, but failed to amuse his spectators. Under the Rose Now he was acting the mountebank, to the huge amusement of a lot of yokels. Reminiscences of a South African Pioneer Your Excellency's niece in conversation with a fiddler, a public singer, a creature little better than a mountebank! Stradella There are new wits who think they see things more truly because they stand on their heads to look at them, like tumblers and mountebanks, instead of keeping the attitude of rational men. Romola Advancement of Learning," chapter 2, says that "the poets were clear-sighted in discerning the credulity of men in often preferring a mountebank, or a cunning woman to a learned physician. Primitive Psycho-Therapy and Quackery There was a mountebank conjurer seated on a table, performing all sorts of wonders before a gaping crowd. John Deane of Nottingham Historic Adventures by Land and Sea We hear them shout, and chatter, and laugh like mountebanks. The Scalp Hunters Josephine starts forward, in her face a mixture of amusement, giving gradually way to some sinister thought which makes her gaze fixedly at the mountebank with parted lips. Clair de Lune A Play in Two Acts and Six Scenes What did you do when you purchased that mountebank impostor Tetzel’s indulgences? Count Ulrich of Lindburg A Tale of the Reformation in Germany He was also keen in acquiring information about popular remedies and nostrums, from travelling mountebanks, barbers, old women, and pretenders of all kinds. Primitive Psycho-Therapy and Quackery And yet you ask them, as if they were mountebanks or jugglers with a certain set of tricks, to amuse the company. Olla Podrida If I were a mountebank or a charlatan I would claim that it cures a hundred diseases. The Gypsies Duchess Oh, this mountebank was merely seeking the blind girl from his troupe, who had been admitted, or possibly abducted, into the palace. Clair de Lune A Play in Two Acts and Six Scenes The rewards of the literary world—that is, the tangible, potable, spendable rewards—go mostly to the cheapjack and the mountebank. Pipefuls For they will often prefer a mountebank or witch before a learned physician. Primitive Psycho-Therapy and Quackery You speak of my low associations, and call me a mountebank. The Young Acrobat of the Great North American Circus Beneath is a mountebank, exalted on a stage, eating fire to attract the public attention; while his merry-andrew behind is distributing his medicines. The Works of William Hogarth: In a Series of Engravings With Descriptions, and a Comment on Their Moral Tendency You have had a strange evening for a mountebank—an evening filled with such events as to strain almost any amount of discretion. Clair de Lune A Play in Two Acts and Six Scenes A mountebank soldier with a wooden sword to sell that nobody chooses to buy. In Direst Peril These Bohemian mountebanks went about the world, selling health. Primitive Psycho-Therapy and Quackery A mutual belief in the same fallacies, mountebanks, hobgoblins and imbecilities. A Book of Burlesques There might be amusement in it, a queer Eastern comedy of the mountebank who raised his eyes to a Druse princess, and wife of a Frank ship's master. The Wind Bloweth Tell these mountebanks to leave the palace grounds before dawn. Clair de Lune A Play in Two Acts and Six Scenes Industry, such as there ever is, was suspended; all were sitting idle, or thronging some game, or gathering in noisy groups about some mountebank. Aurelian or, Rome in the Third Century The like we may say of the magical effects, superstitious cures, and such as are done by mountebanks and wizards. . . . Primitive Psycho-Therapy and Quackery Kramer was a queer mountebank sort of a chap who before conscription claimed him had been clown in a circus, and his antics and gymnastic feats had made him very popular with his fellow-troopers. A Rip Van Winkle Of The Kalahari Seven Tales of South-West Africa He glared at the over-presumptuous mountebank—for so he appraised him; he told himself that, save for a woman's presence, he would have knocked him down. The Sins of Séverac Bablon A Voice We are players, your Highness, mountebanks commanded for the pleasure of the Queen. Clair de Lune A Play in Two Acts and Six Scenes I have never seen a so-called “Physiognomist” who was not an empirical mountebank of the purest stamp, and who did not trim his sails to pander to the silly sentiment which I have just exposed. How to Become Rich A Treatise on Phrenology, Choice of Professions and Matrimony An anonymous writer has told of Bayle, that he would frequently wrap himself in his cloak, and hasten to places where mountebanks resorted; and that this was one of his chief amusements. Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 1 Commercial bubbles burst, and high-pressure boilers blow up, and mountebanks of all descriptions flourish on public credulity. Gryll Grange Why, some think he's a spy, some guess he's a mountebank, some say one thing, some another: but, for my own part, I believe he's a Jesuit. The Beaux-Stratagem Prince A girl—one of the troupe of mountebanks—a blind girl. Clair de Lune A Play in Two Acts and Six Scenes Another set pretend to superior piety, by disfiguring the outward man, making vows, and performing acts of penance, that partake more of the tricks of mountebanks than of the servants of the Almighty. The Adventures of Hajji Baba of Ispahan To be only this is nothing to his discredit; and to esteem him for being only this is not to pay respect to a worthless mountebank. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 2, No. 14, December 1858 One of them, however, of more decent appearance, made me a very pleasing apology, repeating at the same time a French proverb—that a pope and a mountebank were above all law. Travels through the South of France and the Interior of Provinces of Provence and Languedoc in the Years 1807 and 1808 God forbid! but I do not approve of letting down the dignity and power of the chief governors of Ireland lower than they are already fallen, to quarrel with a mountebank at a custard feast. Notes and Queries, Number 180, April 9, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc Weston, as I remember it, compared him to a gipsy fortune-teller, and went on through the gamut of impostor, mountebank and charlatan, before he commanded him to desist on the moment. The Gold Trail But at the end of it the weakest of them was the partly sibylline, partly mountebank intruder. The Best Short Stories of 1917 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story Her majesty sure was in a surprise, Or else was very short-sighted, When a tinker was sworn to look after her eyes, And the mountebank tailor was knighted. Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook, Vol. 3 A large field of several acres was filled with tents, stages and booths, with Punch and Judys, quack doctors, mountebanks and monkeys, and cages containing wild animals of various kinds. The Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, April 1844 Volume 23, Number 4 He there saw, for the first time, the mountebank trick of appearing to cut off the tongue, and afterwards replacing the severed portions without a wound. Traditions of the North American Indians, Vol. 1 After seeing Pascal's grave, and thinking of his immortal works, it was poor preparation for the mountebank exhibition, and awkward work of making Christians, that we witnessed. Young Americans Abroad Vacation in Europe: Travels in England, France, Holland, Belgium, Prussia and Switzerland They have their reward; and after all they are little more than mountebanks, the end of whose show is to gather up pence in the ring. Joyous Gard The scandalous spectacle of that political mountebank, who sacrificed eternal principles to the interests of the day, recalled to my memory the tent of the acrobats. Ten Tales They must have a buffoon, a mountebank, whose methods are repugnant to those who believe in the religion that is taught by the Bible. Watch Yourself Go By In this cold climate a lie is a lie, a cheat is a cheat, and a mountebank and impostor is not the teacher of 'the absolute religion of humanity!' Continental Monthly , Vol. 5, No. 6, June, 1864 Devoted to Literature and National Policy This Tich, I assure you, is no common mountebank, but a first-rate comic actor. Europe After 8:15 "I'm better than a young mountebank—I've vanity enough to say that." The Tragic Muse Every one had a blow for me, and so, to get out of the house, I spent whole days in the Place Clichy, where I knew the mountebanks. Ten Tales Hence he is called liar or fool or mountebank. Bakemono Yashiki (The Haunted House), Retold from the Japanese Originals Tales of the Tokugawa, Volume 2 "You think me," he went on, with his persistent eyes unwaveringly set on her, "a not over-honest mountebank; that's what you and your friends think me." Quisanté She had bent an eye of coldness on Selah and his wife—she might have regarded them all as a company of mountebanks. The Bostonians, Vol. I (of II) Yet what was she, the priestess, when one came to think of it, but a female gymnast, a mountebank at higher wages? The Tragic Muse He, my Adrien, the child that I nourished 40at my own breast, a mountebank in a travelling theatre! struck and insulted before the whole world! Ten Tales A charlatan, a mountebank; wouldn’t have me at Drury; and yet ‘we’ thinks he has a syllable the advantage of his competitor in this instance. The Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, February 1844 Volume 23, Number 2 "Now, I have a better plan," continued the mountebank. The Broncho Rider Boys with Funston at Vera Cruz Or, Upholding the Honor of the Stars and Stripes Schlegel and other educators tried in vain to make the multitude believe that the vulgar mountebank could never fulfill their expectations. History of Rationalism Embracing a Survey of the Present State of Protestant Theology "And they call us mountebanks!" cried the girl. The Tragic Muse I replied that it would take more than such a wretched mountebank as he could do to frighten me, and showed him my revolver, which, until the fear was over, had escaped my memory. Oriental Encounters Palestine and Syria, 1894-6 He is on the trail of those pious mountebanks who "clutter the marketplaces with their booths, mischievous half-art and tubs of tripe and soft soap." A Book of Prefaces "A very easy thing," said the mountebank, "if we had enough provisions to remain here for twenty-four hours, or more." The Broncho Rider Boys with Funston at Vera Cruz Or, Upholding the Honor of the Stars and Stripes In later times the Bryony has come into use instead of the true mandrake, and it has continued to form a profitable spurious article with mountebank doctors. Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure A mountebank, with but one-half of the honorable gentleman's talent for rant, would undoubtedly make his fortune. Irish Wit and Humor Anecdote Biography of Swift, Curran, O'Leary and O'Connell Miss Hill has no right to class all believers in palmistry with mountebanks and gypsies, and she certainly betrays her ignorance of a noble science when she mixes it up with clairvoyance and common fortune-telling.' Cicely and Other Stories Whereupon there was a laugh, for Boniface was a mountebank of La Canardiere, famous in the city and all the country side. The Bastonnais Tale of the American Invasion of Canada in 1775-76 "Then we'll get rid of these bandits in short notice," declared the mountebank emphatically. The Broncho Rider Boys with Funston at Vera Cruz Or, Upholding the Honor of the Stars and Stripes For the rest, 'he attired himself in pompous clothes, wearing doublets of brocade, cloaks trimmed with gold lace, gorgeous caps, neck-chains, and other vanities of a like description, fit for buffoons and mountebanks.' Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Third series Was G.K. serious or merely posing, was he a great man or a mountebank, was he clear or obscure, was he a genius or a charlatan? Gilbert Keith Chesterton The clown at a theatre, the mountebank on the stage, are not so badly employed as theological triflers, who darken counsel by words without knowledge. Modern Skepticism: A Journey Through the Land of Doubt and Back Again A Life Story Of course, in such a state of things, political mountebanks come forward and propose fierce measures which can be paraded for political effect. What Social Classes Owe to Each Other In his hand he held one end of a good-sized rope, which the mountebank took and tied around one of the stone pillars which supported the roof. The Broncho Rider Boys with Funston at Vera Cruz Or, Upholding the Honor of the Stars and Stripes Observ’d ye, yon reverend lad Maks faces to tickle the mob; He rails at our mountebank squad, Its rivalship just i’ the job. The Complete Works of Robert Burns: Containing his Poems, Songs, and Correspondence. With a New Life of the Poet, and Notices, Critical and Biographical by Allan Cunningham The decadence of literature is the struggle of mountebanks to catch the public eye. The Story of the Innumerable Company, and Other Sketches He rails at our mountebank squad— It's rivalship just i' the job! Robert Burns How To Know Him He sometimes painted interiors, domestic assemblies, conversations, mountebanks, etc., which he generally accompanied with some facetious trait of wit or humor, admirably rendered. Anecdotes of Painters, Engravers, Sculptors and Architects and Curiosities of Art (Vol. 3 of 3) My name, if that means anything to you, is Francis Strong, and I have assumed this character of a mountebank solely for the purpose of going about the country without being molested. The Broncho Rider Boys with Funston at Vera Cruz Or, Upholding the Honor of the Stars and Stripes Notwithstanding their uncouth figures and mountebank tricks their movements at times are undoubtedly graceful, and they appear to exercise a certain authority over the entire pageant. The Delight Makers In the days of Greece, as in those of Rome, there were ball-players, and mountebanks, and we may remember an occasion on which Terence complained that a rope-dancer had enticed away his audience. History of English Humour, Vol. 1 With an Introduction upon Ancient Humour Finally, a crowd of political mountebanks from the Jockey Club, who are disgusted because they had hoped for some personal advantage through my influence, and I have ignored them. In the World War In the gallery at Florence is one of his pictures, representing an interior by candle-light, with a mountebank, surrounded by a number of clowns, which is exquisitely finished. Anecdotes of Painters, Engravers, Sculptors and Architects and Curiosities of Art (Vol. 3 of 3) "Well, yes," said Donald, with a shake of his head, "it might have; but how could the mountebank have gotten the box?" The Broncho Rider Boys with Funston at Vera Cruz Or, Upholding the Honor of the Stars and Stripes He replied: 'There is Sir William Read, the mountebank, who has just been knighted, and I should have to call him "brother." The Wits and Beaux of Society Volume 1 As the jesters approached their end, they had more of the moralist and politician in them than of the mountebank. History of English Humour, Vol. 1 With an Introduction upon Ancient Humour The Hautvilles, furnishing the music in church, and for dances and funerals, were regarded much in the light of mountebanks, and jugglers with sweet sounds. Madelon A Novel Caramba! is this a travelling show—a place for mountebanks and gypsies? Prisoners of Chance The Story of What Befell Geoffrey Benteen, Borderman, through His Love for a Lady of France "That man there," and Santiago pointed with his long bony finger at the mountebank, Strong. The Broncho Rider Boys with Funston at Vera Cruz Or, Upholding the Honor of the Stars and Stripes The more effectually to support his character as a mountebank, Villiers sold mithridate and galbanum plasters: thousands of spectators and customers thronged every day to see and hear him. The Wits and Beaux of Society Volume 1 A mediæval crowd at fair time was entertained by mountebanks, tumblers, and similar rough makers of unrefined mirth. Life in a Mediæval City Illustrated by York in the XVth Century That honest little mountebank, Puddock, does not understand a word of it. The House by the Church-Yard The gymnastic is not a mountebank; he palms off no legerdemain upon the public. Lectures on Language As Particularly Connected with English Grammar. "Have you far to go, Señors?" queried the mountebank. The Broncho Rider Boys with Funston at Vera Cruz Or, Upholding the Honor of the Stars and Stripes That the spirit of adventure was strong within him, is shown by his daring to go up to London, and disguising himself as a mountebank. The Wits and Beaux of Society Volume 1 But, be it said to his honor, he never played mountebank tricks in the presence of the masters whom he revered. How to Listen to Music, 7th ed. Hints and Suggestions to Untaught Lovers of the Art And that," said Jonah, "is the sodden mountebank who dares to cast a stone into the limpid pool of my character. Berry And Co. The comedians have liberty and the operas are open; witty pasquils are thrown about, and the mountebanks have their stages at every corner. Great Italian and French Composers The mountebank made a mysterious sign with his left hand. The Broncho Rider Boys with Funston at Vera Cruz Or, Upholding the Honor of the Stars and Stripes One day this paragon saw a mountebank dancing on a stage in the most exquisite style. The Wits and Beaux of Society Volume 1 "A fool of a madman being taken about by a fool of a mountebank!" Sunrise He was a clever conductor, and affected the mountebank. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, Complete Such were only some of the expressions, blasphemously familiar, which this clerical mountebank made use of during a full half hour, that he almost electrified the whole company by his half-mad gesticulations and discourses. The Cross and the Shamrock Or, How To Defend The Faith. An Irish-American Catholic Tale Of Real Life, Descriptive Of The Temptations, Sufferings, Trials, And Triumphs Of The Children Of St. Patrick In The Great Republic Of Washington. A Book For The Entertainment And Special Instructions Of The Catholic Male And Female Servants Of The United States. Why," explained the banker, "I asked Gen. Funston to find the mountebank for me. The Broncho Rider Boys with Funston at Vera Cruz Or, Upholding the Honor of the Stars and Stripes "And the booths of mountebanks, With the smell of tan and planks." Us An Old Fashioned Story We thought he was a mountebank haranguing the populace, till we saw that he wore a uniform. Richard Lovell Edgeworth A Selection From His Memoir Demos is to keep for his diversion a kennel of mountebanks. Art The people were ready to tear the mountebank to pieces. Luther and the Reformation: The Life-Springs of Our Liberties It was the mountebank, Strong, but in his stylish clothing Don had failed to recognize him. The Broncho Rider Boys with Funston at Vera Cruz Or, Upholding the Honor of the Stars and Stripes You would smile at my rhetoric and call me a mountebank, but I am succeeding. Montlivet You fool, you thing in petticoats, you deceiver of women, you charlatan, you mountebank, go! Marzio's Crucifix and Zoroaster Your present literary world of mountebanks stands in need of such an Avatar. Life of Lord Byron, Vol. 5 With His Letters and Journals I have taken my leave of that stage, and henceforth will mountebank it no longer. Life of Lord Byron, Vol. 3 With His Letters and Journals Grimes and taken the plotters into custody, the next task was to locate Strong, the mountebank, and to solve the mystery of the box. The Broncho Rider Boys with Funston at Vera Cruz Or, Upholding the Honor of the Stars and Stripes The present mountebank, it is true, seems more hardy in his experiments, and boasts of being able to cause disorders in the human frame, as well as to remove them. Observations and Reflections Made in the Course of a Journey through France, Italy, and Germany, Vol. I By the way, Berlioz was in Dresden at the time, doing mountebank tricks with the orchestra, and after hearing, the Dutchman he went so far as to speak well of it. Richard Wagner Composer of Operas It is not courteous, it is hardly even gentlemanly, to persist in this appropriation of a man's writings to their mountebanks. Life of Lord Byron, Vol. 5 With His Letters and Journals They talked to the toad-like mountebank in the most endearing tones, evidently believing it was their dead baby toddling before them. The Bread-winners A Social Study Leaving Don Esteban, the boys started for the plaza, intending to play the part of sightseers and visit every place in which a mountebank might reasonably expect to go. The Broncho Rider Boys with Funston at Vera Cruz Or, Upholding the Honor of the Stars and Stripes "You will be up there in the clear April days, by the side of that beautiful river, and I shall be playing the mountebank here, among the London gas and fog." Prince Fortunatus "I am not a mountebank," growled the porter. Marietta A Maid of Venice But in the interval between the cudgel-stroke of Johnson and the mud-throwing of Carlyle, America had grown strong enough to bear the assaults of literary bullies and mountebanks without serious annoyance. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 78, April, 1864 B. Gough, without coming to the conclusion that he is nothing more than a theatrical mountebank. Three Years in Europe Places I Have Seen and People I Have Met That was what I knew of my poor, cheap, fiddle-playing mountebank of a father. The Seeker Whatever mountebank tricks d'Annunzio may play as a human being, he has undoubtedly written some very great works. Books and Persons Being Comments on a Past Epoch 1908-1911 We had not disgorged one particle of the nauseous doses with which we were so liberally crammed by the mountebanks of Paris in order to drug and diet us into perfect tameness. The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 05 (of 12) You have read, Sir, the last manifesto, or mountebank's bill, of the National Assembly. The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 04 (of 12) They would still be the tool of unprincipled political mountebanks—themselves the tool of priests. Superstition Unveiled At this instant a mountebank piper sitting by the roadway struck up his ditty, and a few idle soldiers and wayfaring shepherds ran up to him to catch the music. A Friend of Caesar A Tale of the Fall of the Roman Republic. Time, 50-47 B.C. The Temple is a good, a holy place, But quacking only gives it an ill savor; While saintly mountebanks the porch disgrace, And bring religion's self into disfavor! The Poetical Works of Thomas Hood The man was a mountebank, nothing more, Stephen had decided, and his strange power was simply the reaction of mob hysteria to the stage tricks of the political clown. One Man in His Time It has been the practice of mountebanks to boast the efficacy of their antidotes by playing with vipers, but they first disabled their fangs. Notes to Shakespeare, Volume III: The Tragedies The false standards he sets up for his pupils are a natural result of his own ineffectual worship of the fetish of virtuosity—those of the musical mountebank of a hundred years ago. Violin Mastery Talks with Master Violinists and Teachers She is the strolling singer or mountebank of the Immortals. Myths and Legends of China I have been deceived, say they, by Titius and Mævius; I have been the dupe of this pretender or of that mountebank; and I can trust appearances no longer. The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 02 (of 12) Yes, the man was a mountebank—but was he nothing more than a mountebank? One Man in His Time Quack-salving cheating mountebanks!—your skill Is to make sound men sick, and sick men kill. Handy Dictionary of Poetical Quotations "Self-opinionated old mountebank," Harleston thought, as he went down the corridor to Carpenter's office. The Cab of the Sleeping Horse It is symbolical of dissimulation and depravity, and taken to typify the degrading life of the mountebank. The Cathedral Let us make safe men rather than vociferous mountebanks; let us put deftness in daily labor above sleight-of-hand tricks, and common sense, well trained, above classical smatterings, which awe the multitude but butter no parsnips. The Negro Problem A man who was born in a circus tent, and who still performed in public the tricks of a mountebank! One Man in His Time Those scenes, however, are open at present, and there our young students listen to mountebank oratory. A Dialogue Concerning Oratory, Or The Causes Of Corrupt Eloquence The Works Of Cornelius Tacitus, Volume 8 (of 8); With An Essay On His Life And Genius, Notes, Supplements From the mufflers in which his father, the mountebank, has wrapped the child, to carry him across the heath, a little tumbling-boy emerges in soiled tights. Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, First Series “I’ve stood amid the glittering throng” Of mountebanks at Greenwich fair, Where I have heard the Chinese gong Filling, with brazen voice, the air. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, August 21, 1841 I told the fools of conductors that their motto would play the devil; but, like all mountebanks, they persisted. Life of Lord Byron, Vol. 6 With His Letters and Journals All muleteers have a touch of the ruffian, a spice of the thief, and a dash of the mountebank. The Exemplary Novels of Cervantes The grave divine, with knotty points perplext, As if he were awake, nods o'er his text: While the sly mountebank attends his trade, Harangues the rabble, and is better paid. The Poems of Jonathan Swift, D.D., Volume 1 The aristocracy disguises itself as a mountebank, puts on tights and spangles, gives public trapeze performances, jumps through hoops, and does weight-lifting stunts in the trampled tan-bark ring! Là-bas Only mountebanks do such things, Monsieur le Cure! Abbe Mouret's Transgression All this is Japonese to me, said the emperor; but your ancestors seem to have been a parcel of mountebanks. Hieroglyphic Tales You have not seen its single eye; But fear and doubt and jealousy Have risen, and now your love is trembling Like a mountebank dissembling When his trick's detected. Household Gods You frequently hear of the tricks of the London cheats, and I daresay you have often enough witnessed those of mountebanks and gypsies. Political Pamphlets I came away persuaded that he was a mountebank. Là-bas Remembering his mountebank days, he had but to hold a little performance in the public square. John of the Woods "There be mountebanks, as well in the civil body as in the natural; I ever served his Majesty with modesty; no shouting, no undertaking." Bacon "He jabbered away," writes a Dutch historian, "in English, like a mountebank." Peter Stuyvesant, the Last Dutch Governor of New Amsterdam Boswell’s Tour of the Hebrides was “the story of a mountebank and his zany.” The Art of Letters His earnest and straightforward manner was not that of a mountebank. A Trip to Venus It was great fun to play at being a mountebank once more for the people who loved him! John of the Woods A mule carried my baggage; and the muleteer who guided it looked like a mountebank in a garb rusty like withered leaves. Bog-Myrtle and Peat Tales Chiefly of Galloway Gathered from the Years 1889 to 1895 But he having no understanding in this polite way, brought in upon us, to get in his money, ladder-dancers,183 rope-dancers, jugglers, and mountebanks, to strut in the place of Shakespeare's heroes, and Jonson's humorists. The Tatler, Volume 1, 1899 With learned jargon and conceit, With tongue as prompt to lie as The veriest mountebank and cheat, Steps forth the black ——. Notes and Queries, Number 14, February 2, 1850 |
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